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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Switch Hype. Is it real? or is it just hope?

 

Is the high attach rate of the nintendo switch:

Because NS is a magical machine 98 42.61%
 
Because Fans really want it to succeed 132 57.39%
 
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zorg1000 on 22 February 2017

CraigMack said:
It's just hype. As with any new product. The N64 had hype, Game Cube had hype, Wii U had hype too. The Wii was not even hyped until after release when the casuals saw the motion controller.

Now that ship has sailed. Anyone using google searches, YouTube views or so called preorders/attach rate are fooling themselves as they mean nothing.

Those things are all evidence of more pre-release interest in Switch compared to Wii U. You're right that they mean nothing for long term sales but high pre-release interest can only be a good thing.

The Switch conference last month had very little views on YouTube anyway. Much less than the one from last fall.

An hour long, mostly dubbed, press conference has less views than a 3 minute advertisement? Wow thats insane!!!!!

Switch will sell enough to make a profit. I predicted around 20-25 million, because the WiiU sales are too bad to repeat when a new Zelda is launching with it and a 3D Mario game coming in the first year.

The target consumer (casual and mobile gamers) are not going to find it appealing with that price and how expensive the accessories. Something Nintendo fans constantly ignore.

Its not that people ignore this, its more like they think the positives, such as software/features/marketing, outweigh the negatives and prices of hardware & accessories can and likely will decrease over time.

Even the people I know who own a WiiU are not interested in it at leat for the moment. Paid online and lack of power will also hurt it.

And I personally know people who dont have a Wii U that are interested in Switch........you talk about internet trends & pre-orders meaning nothing then go on to use anecdotal evidence to support your argument? 

It does not offer big budget games on the go as not even Zelda is big budget compared to games on stronger hardware. 

Because a game has to have a big budget to get people interested? How did DS, Wii & 3DS do so well then?

The same was said for the WiiU all over the net. Gamestop has to say what they did, because they want to sell it. Notice no comparison data between Switch and WiiU.

No one is hating or bashing. The product just is not very appealing to none diehard Nintendo fans. I would play the new Mario and Zelda, but hate the gimmick and not paying $299 for it. Neither is anyone else I know.

And there is literally no evidence to support the argument that only diehard fans are interested in Switch.


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Rab on 22 February 2017

I remember when the PS4 was driven by Hype, for about a year and a half it had few decent games, people would ignore that for its potential though, fan hype definitely kept it going until the games came



ICStats on 23 February 2017

Do we have some attach rate numbers, or is the attach rate high the way Trump's inauguration had high attendance? :-p

I hope the Switch hype is bigger than what I'm seeing. I don't see much excitement in the real world like on these forums.



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GoOnKid on 23 February 2017

Yesterday I talked with my colleagues about the Switch and they seemed interested. All girls in their twenties. Now they want me to bring it to work someday.



GoOnKid on 23 February 2017
zippy said:
d21lewis said:
I don't know. MY hype is real, though. I'm taking vacation from work just to play it.

Me too

I'll be on vacation, too, although it's just a nice coincidence since I planned that before we knew of the Switch launch date.



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monocle_layton on 23 February 2017
Rab said:
I remember when the PS4 was driven by Hype, for about a year and a half it had few decent games, people would ignore that for its potential though, fan hype definitely kept it going until the games came

8th gen took some time to finally get rolling along. Glad it took its time- things are looking great. 



Azuren on 23 February 2017

I don't believe it will shake the industry like the Wii did.

That's a good thing.



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Miyamotoo on 23 February 2017

Hype is real, definitely it's much stronger than Wii Us for instance. Its easy to see that Switch look like much more interesting and appealing console than Wii U was.



Miyamotoo on 23 February 2017
Rab said:
I remember when the PS4 was driven by Hype, for about a year and a half it had few decent games, people would ignore that for its potential though, fan hype definitely kept it going until the games came

I think thing for PS4 was that people waited 8 years for successor to PS3/Xbox 360 console, so lotsa PS3 and Xbox 360 owners just waited do upgrade to new generation, and lack of must have games couldnt change that.



Miyamotoo on 23 February 2017
Slarvax said:
zero129 said:
Has a Nintendo Portable failed yet?.

Virtual Boy The 3DS is the closest to that. A lot of people consider it a success, though.

Dedicated handheld gaming device that in age of smartphones and tablets will sell at least around 70m units, is definitely success in any case.