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Otter on 04 January 2018

Great Concept
Great Execution
Exceptional Software (for its niche)

It may need to diversify a bit to keep the momentum, at this rate I see it blasting to 40-50m with Pokemon and the like but slowing down once this core audience is satisified. Hopefully the Japanese developers come through in 2018 and beyond and Nintendo employs the blue ocean strategy whilst still keeping their eyes firmly on quality experiences which core gamers can enjoy too (so no cheap cash in or wii music's type games)



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DonFerrari on 04 January 2018

Congrats Nintendo... but it hardly will hold up.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

quickrick on 04 January 2018
DonFerrari said:
Congrats Nintendo... but it hardly will hold up.

it's ahead of wii and ps4, because it got a well stocked launch for march, and a well stocked holiday. wii, and ps4 had post launch holidays, so the boost they got from holidays were minimal. 



DonFerrari on 04 January 2018
quickrick said:
DonFerrari said:
Congrats Nintendo... but it hardly will hold up.

it's ahead of wii and ps4, because it got a well stocked launch for march, and a well stocked holiday. wii, and ps4 had post launch holidays, so the boost they got from holidays were minimal. 

We will probably not hear it many more times about Switch being the fastest selling...

But it is the second time in about a month that Nintendo reports this with caveats (like the unprecedented).



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Alkibiádēs on 04 January 2018

Gotta love how bitter some people are over this.



"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must" - Thoukydides

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OTBWY on 04 January 2018

Unstoppable. Very good news.

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John19 on 04 January 2018
quickrick said:
DonFerrari said:
Congrats Nintendo... but it hardly will hold up.

it's ahead of wii and ps4, because it got a well stocked launch for march, and a well stocked holiday. wii, and ps4 had post launch holidays, so the boost they got from holidays were minimal. 

It had far from a well stocked launch in March



Ljink96 on 04 January 2018

Lol, so much salt! Watch out guys, you might get high blood pressure if you stay too long!



DonFerrari on 04 January 2018
John19 said:
quickrick said:

it's ahead of wii and ps4, because it got a well stocked launch for march, and a well stocked holiday. wii, and ps4 had post launch holidays, so the boost they got from holidays were minimal. 

It had far from a well stocked launch in March

The launch numbers were very far from a console that wasn't well supplied



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

quickrick on 04 January 2018
John19 said:
quickrick said:

it's ahead of wii and ps4, because it got a well stocked launch for march, and a well stocked holiday. wii, and ps4 had post launch holidays, so the boost they got from holidays were minimal. 

It had far from a well stocked launch in March

900k for a launch in march is pretty good. it had more stock then most console launches during  november, and thats a holiday period where consoles do near a million with out even a launch demand.