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CrazyGamer2017 said:
Wyrdness said:

It's also the most powerful portable gaming device which means they have improved significantly as hardware have gone, it even runs PS4 games like Doom on the go how is this a bad thing for consumers.

Remember I'm only speaking from my perspective ok?

So Doom is not a bad thing because I have a choice. Doom on Switch does not hold technically speaking compared to Doom on PS4 But that is ok because I can simply choose to play Doom on PS4.

To be clear I'm not saying it's bad on Switch or anything, I'm saying it is not as good. But I have a choice.

Whereas BOTW or Mario Odyssey, well I don't have a choice, I cannot play it on any home system cause it's on the Switch or it's nowhere. And that's what is bad for consumers.

And I am not even talking about the fact those are exclusives, it's not that. the PS4 has its exclusives so the Switch has them too, that's fine. But if Nintendo (as they always did in the past) had BOTH a portable and a dedicated home system I could have played those exclusives on a home system but now I can't cause there is no home system on the Nintendo side and that's not good for consumers. At least for those who care about a dedicated home system. If you prefer portable gaming then you are fine or course.

Pretty much equals to say PS4 success is bad for consumers since they don't offer any option to play Uncharted 4 and Horizon Zero Dawn on the go.

With the difference that while it's really true that you only have a single option to play those games, it's false that you can't play SMO and BOTW both on TV and on the go. You can play those games on TV, only not with the same graphical standards as a PS4.



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that's great. what we all need it!



Switch!!!

The Switch was 7.6m shipped on September 30th. So it sold around 2.4m (probably more) in two months (October and November), not one.



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So how much shipped by now?



 

 

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Normchacho said:
LethalP said:
Switch done 10 million in 284 days, PS4 done 10 million in 268 days. That's a close one. Wonder if Switch can overtake PS4 considering PS4 was also ahead of the Wii at this point.

 

LethalP said:

It's outpacing the Wii at the same point in time, what the fuck do they want?

 

I was going to respond to your first post and then saw your second and my reply to that was going to be related so I'll just do them both at once!

 

According to VGC the Switch isn't outpacing the Wii...

Weeks to reach 10 million units:

Switch: 40

Wii: 36

3DS: 42

PS4 39

 

The Switch is doing well, but maybe the investors expected it to be farther ahead of the 3DS? Actually, they probably aren't paying that much attention, maybe they just expected higher numbers overall?

I think that investors mixed up sold through and shiped number, beacuse Nintendo said they planed to ship 16.7m Switch units buy 31. March so probably they think 10m sold through for begining of December is not good.



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SpokenTruth said:

Investors are more interested in Nintendo addressing mobile and the Chinese market.  High Switch sales are not a stock motivator.

VGPolyglot said:

The article doesn't seem to have the quote though that says it's sold to consumers.

"the Nintendo Switch system has already sold 10 million units to consumers around the world, according to Nintendo’s internal sales figures."

I meant that it doesn't have Nintendo's quote.



Chrizum said:

I understand that you're not a portable gamer. I just don't see what's stopping you from playing BOTW and Oddysey docked on your TV. Why would you be bothered that you can take those games with you wherever you go as well? How is that "bad for consumers"?

I don't like getting in details here cause some people are going to say I'm a hater and attack me probably. I hope not.

And again this is just my perspective.

But the thing is, BOTW while not too bad graphically speaking is not perfect either, it has aliasing for example, it runs at 900p if I remember correctly it has some dips in frame rate etc. This is not the game's fault, this is the hardware's. And the hardware is great as portable hardware of course but it's not doing as good in docked mode as it could have done if it had been on dedicated home hardware. The Tegra chip is specifically made for portable systems.

My point is if Nintendo had released both a portable and a dedicated hardware as they have ALWAYS done in the past, BOTW and Mario Odyssey would have been obviously made for the home system and the graphic issues would most likely not exist as historically speaking Nintendo has always been impeccable with their home made games on their dedicated hardware. And as a personal choice I would have liked that better rather than a hybrid system. If at least this hybrid system had had significant extra processing power by adding processors in the dock itself, that could have taken care of the issue too in my opinion.

Just to be clear cause there is going to be some who will misunderstand what I'm saying: I'm NOT saying BOTW is bad as a game, it's actually one of the best games of the year, I am only talking about graphic issues due to the limitations of the Tegra 1 chip.



SpokenTruth said:
VGPolyglot said:

I meant that it doesn't have Nintendo's quote.

The wire was written by Nintendo's PR firm Golin.  It's acceptable as an official statement.

I didn't even know they had a PR firm.



freebs2 said:

Pretty much equals to say PS4 success is bad for consumers since they don't offer any option to play Uncharted 4 and Horizon Zero Dawn on the go.

With the difference that while it's really true that you only have a single option to play those games, it's false that you can't play SMO and BOTW both on TV and on the go. You can play those games on TV, only not with the same graphical standards as a PS4.

You know what my friend? You are absolutely right. What I'm saying about Nintendo is EXACTLY the same as saying that the PS4 success is not as good for consumers in the sense they don't have the choice to play those games on the go. I don't notice cause gaming on the go is not for me, but you are still very right about it.

So as I don't really notice with my PS4 cause gaming on the go is not my thing I can TOTALLY understand you guys who love gaming on the go, not noticing this issue with Nintendo either.

But as I realize that the "on the go" choice is not there for PS4 consumers, I hope you realize and acknowledge the same point about Nintendo and that's all I've been trying to say about this.



CrazyGamer2017 said:
Chrizum said:

I understand that you're not a portable gamer. I just don't see what's stopping you from playing BOTW and Oddysey docked on your TV. Why would you be bothered that you can take those games with you wherever you go as well? How is that "bad for consumers"?

I don't like getting in details here cause some people are going to say I'm a hater and attack me probably. I hope not.

And again this is just my perspective.

But the thing is, BOTW while not too bad graphically speaking is not perfect either, it has aliasing for example, it runs at 900p if I remember correctly it has some dips in frame rate etc. This is not the game's fault, this is the hardware's. And the hardware is great as portable hardware of course but it's not doing as good in docked mode as it could have done if it had been on dedicated home hardware. The Tegra chip is specifically made for portable systems.

My point is if Nintendo had released both a portable and a dedicated hardware as they have ALWAYS done in the past, BOTW and Mario Odyssey would have been obviously made for the home system and the graphic issues would most likely not exist as historically speaking Nintendo has always been impeccable with their home made games on their dedicated hardware. And as a personal choice I would have liked that better rather than a hybrid system. If at least this hybrid system had had significant extra processing power by adding processors in the dock itself, that could have taken care of the issue too in my opinion.

Just to be clear cause there is going to be some who will misunderstand what I'm saying: I'm NOT saying BOTW is bad as a game, it's actually one of the best games of the year, I am only talking about graphic issues due to the limitations of the Tegra 1 chip.

BOTW is a Wii U game in other words a console game that was ported to NS in under 6 months we've yet to see Zelda built for the hardware, BOTW runs at 900p on NS yet is 720p on Wii U all of this is contradicting what you're trying to push here.