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zorg1000 on 28 March 2017
FallingTitan said:
specialk said:
More meaningless anecdotal evidence:

I bought a Switch at launch and I didn't even know that the Wii U existed until probably a few months after it's launch.

The marketing is leaps and bounds above what they did with the Wii U. The message about what this thing is and what it does is crystal clear.

havn't seen an ad yet on tv. just stuf on the net from youtube tech reveiwers which is not nintendo. 

 

and here.

 

so i think the marketing is on par with the wii U>

i cant watch TV for more than an hour without seeing a Switch ad.

With Wii U, ads literally only regularly played on kids networks like Nick, Disney, Cartoon Network but with Switch i see ads on TBS, Spike, Comedy Central, FX, Freeform, etc.



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Kai_Mao on 28 March 2017
FallingTitan said:
specialk said:
More meaningless anecdotal evidence:

I bought a Switch at launch and I didn't even know that the Wii U existed until probably a few months after it's launch.

The marketing is leaps and bounds above what they did with the Wii U. The message about what this thing is and what it does is crystal clear.

havn't seen an ad yet on tv. just stuf on the net from youtube tech reveiwers which is not nintendo. 

 

and here.

 

so i think the marketing is on par with the wii U>

Just saw an ad while at the movie theater.



specialk on 28 March 2017
FallingTitan said:

havn't seen an ad yet on tv. just stuf on the net from youtube tech reveiwers which is not nintendo. 

 

and here.

 

so i think the marketing is on par with the wii U>

They ran a commercial during the Super Bowl, which is the most watched event of the year in the United States. 



FallingTitan on 28 March 2017
specialk said:
FallingTitan said:

havn't seen an ad yet on tv. just stuf on the net from youtube tech reveiwers which is not nintendo. 

 

and here.

 

so i think the marketing is on par with the wii U>

They ran a commercial during the Super Bowl, which is the most watched event of the year in the United States. 

oh wow. i didnt know! i skipped the superbowl because i was abroad. 



monocle_layton on 28 March 2017
Kai_Mao said:
FallingTitan said:

havn't seen an ad yet on tv. just stuf on the net from youtube tech reveiwers which is not nintendo. 

 

and here.

 

so i think the marketing is on par with the wii U>

Just saw an ad while at the movie theater.

I saw two switch ads for one movie...I also seen it on many websites (even on Russian Times, what an odd place). It also had a superbowl ad, and seems to have much better ads compared to the Wii U.



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Robert_Downey_Jr. on 28 March 2017

The Summer will be the real test. If it's selling better than PS4 through that then I'll be impressed.



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Pyro as Bill on 28 March 2017
spurgeonryan said:
We are getting smaller and smaller shipments and they are selling out fast.

Also the Guardian amiibo is always gone. Still pletny of BotW games though.

Neon seems to sell out quicker than the grey model, do you get the same amount of neons and greys?



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monocle_layton on 28 March 2017
Robert_Downey_Jr. said:
The Summer will be the real test. If it's selling better than PS4 through that then I'll be impressed.

Does anyone really expect that?

Unless it is the next PSP/Wii, I do not see it outselling the PS4 right now



megaman79 on 28 March 2017
Darwinianevolution said:
I hope this is because of a real demand and not the controlled understocking Nintendo has in place. Better have enough units by the time Splatoon 2 and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe come out.

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Mummelmann on 29 March 2017

It makes a lot of sense for Gamestop to be hyping the Switch, out of all three main alternatives for your living room. It's by far the console with the best prospects of selling physical copies of software, which GS are in dire need of managing to keep on selling, both new and used, I bet you anything that they're not instructing their staff to advice Switch buyers to get more internal storage along with their purchase...