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Miyamotoo on 14 April 2017
d21lewis said:
Miyamotoo said:

Nothing cant be compared to Wii Sports, we talking about game that sold 83m and that brought to gaming totally different audience for 1st time ever. Maybe Minecraft in some deegre but thats multiplatform game.

You think Wii sports was the only game to expand the gaming audience? And exclusivity is a defining factor?

 

And yes, you can compare. You can compare any two things. You can compare a grizzly bear to banana pudding if you want. Comparing Super Mario to Wii Sports isn't a huge stretch.

Motion Controls with Wii Sports is what sold Nintendo Wii on 1st place, reason why Wii was played even in retirement homes. So its very clear that Wii Sports it's in own league compared to games you mentioned, they are much more weaker in any case.

 

Soundwave said:
Miyamotoo said:

Nothing cant be compared to Wii Sports, we talking about game that sold 83m and that brought to gaming totally different audience for 1st time ever.

 

Difference is that Switch is also great and appealing like hardware, same couldn't be said for N64.

N64 was very appealling hardware, it just was handicapped by the stupid cartridge decision, which for 1996 was devastating to it's chances (see my other thread on this). N64 sold amazing it's first year for example, almost as well as the Wii and PS2 in the US. With far fewer games in a smaller market. People don't realize that.

And that was hardware reason, reason why N64 had such a little numbers of games and why 3rd party abondend Nintendo.



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kopstudent89 on 14 April 2017

Great numbers on the board. MK8 D releasing and i just can't see it slowing down now



Soundwave on 14 April 2017
RolStoppable said:
Soundwave said:

It is a soft launch, you are misinterpreting that word. PS4 in my opinion was also a soft launch. So was 3DS. Soft launch to me is a launch where there aren't a lot of games specifically made for your actual hardware from the ground up, the OS is basically incomplete, a lot of features are being held off for the future, etc. 

Soft launch doesn't mean bad launch though. You can still execute a soft launch well (but execute being the operative word there) ... as both Sony and Nintendo have demonstrated this generation. In fact some of the most successful launches are soft launches ... PS2 in Japan for example comes to mind, that thing basically had nothing for games for like 6-7 months yet it sold like 800k in one day in Japan alone. 

And you are a beaver if I change the definition of the word as I see fit.

My definition is perfectly logical, you are the one that somehow jumped all over it for being negative.

If I wanted to say "shit launch", I would've said "shit launch", that is different from "soft launch". When I don't like something I'm pretty blunt in how I say it, you should know that better than most. 



h2ohno on 14 April 2017

People bought Zelda in anticipation of being able to buy the console. I know I got the game before the console.



Soundwave on 14 April 2017
RolStoppable said:
Soundwave said:

My definition is perfectly logical, you are the one that somehow jumped all over it for being negative.

If I wanted to say "shit launch", I would've said "shit launch", that is different from "soft launch". When I don't like something I'm pretty blunt in how I say it, you should know that better than most. 

Your definition is completely illogical.

Go on. Explain why. 



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Uabit on 14 April 2017

When this console gets a Pokemon, it's going to be crazy.



Wyrdness on 14 April 2017

They've upped their estimate following NPD's results it seems.

https://venturebeat.com/2017/04/14/superdata-nintendo-sells-2-4-million-switch-consoles-worldwide-in-first-month/



Mike321 on 14 April 2017

Still can't believe zelda outsold the console



                                                                                     

fielding88 on 14 April 2017

I hope this means all three consoles get some really great support, and they can all co-exist healthily. Pretty happy with the news, and looking forward to picking one up maybe during the Christmas season (got Zelda for Wii U, so right now not much on the software front is appealing yet).



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tbone51 on 14 April 2017
Nvm lol.
Also how many zelda copies did they ship in US? If sales are over 1.3mil then shipments must be about 2mil?