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Wyrdness on 11 February 2019
Cobretti2 said:
Wyrdness said:

You just spewed a load of waffle that said nothing to try and sound like you're right stores decide themselves what to stock not companies, people mainly buy digital or from online stores like Amazon as it's far more convenient hence why so many retailers are taking big losses on games sales an example being Gamestop who had a disastrous loss last quarter which is why your shelf space argument has little bearing on a platform's library other than who is still going to the said store and that dictates what the store decides to stock up on.

With my work I end up going to many stores, it is the same story.

Irrespective of what is happening online, under your logic if more and more people are buying digital or on amazon, surely all platform sections would shrink accordingly in terms of shelf space.  The shelf space arrangements I mentioned have been around like that long before online shopping was a thing in Australia.  If these haven't changed clearly it just shows that PS4 has more games that are worth putting on shelf or Nintendo don't want to pay for shelf space.

 

OK lets roll with your online idea, i checked online for one of the major retailers here in Aus.

Ps4 has 90 announced games coming in 2019, with 50 confirmed release dates

Switch has 40 announced games coming in 2019, with 15 confirmed release dates.

Surely you can see why the Switch looks like its in a dry spell to a gamer that has other tastes then just Nintendo games?

Hell I ain't even worried about 2019 too much its the fact we are not seeing any 3rd parties really saying they gonna go full swing into switch development either which is concerning.

Shelf space is shrinking for all platforms especially here in the UK (to the point many retailers of games have shut down even HMV the once flagship retailer of games and music is in financial trouble as a result and shutting down so your whole shelf space angle is waffle as it's nowhere near a concrete argument in measuring library we're not in the 90s.

Duh PS4 has more announced games it's been out for 5 years and NS is not even 2 years, back when PS4 was out for the same time period it didn't even have 40 announced games and such for the period ahead, I have other tastes than Nintendo and not had the same issue as for your claim about developers:

This is from GDC's survey ahead of GDC in March.



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JWeinCom on 11 February 2019
Cobretti2 said:
JWeinCom said:

Well... you were just talking about how the Vita had more shelf space at a point than the 3DS... so it doesn't seem that shelf space is a huge factor in purchasing decision.

lol bad example. It lasted a year at launch, but I guess Sony had high hopes then. then shrunk from there to same size as 3ds.

Which would beg the question of why the Vita did not take off and the 3DS did (sort of).  Clearly shelf space is not a huge factor in the decision making process.



Megiddo on 11 February 2019
MasonADC said:

I thought the whole “ Nintendo fans only buy first party games” would have died out by now 

Why would you think that? When you have Nintendo published games getting ~70% of total Nintendo Switch retail software sales it's not going to die. That said this thread is amusing. Nintendo is absolutely killing it sales-wise with the Switch so I don't see them changing their gameplan at all of 1 or 2 tent-pole games a year since that seems to be enough.

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routsounmanman on 11 February 2019
Megiddo said:
MasonADC said:

I thought the whole “ Nintendo fans only buy first party games” would have died out by now 

Why would you think that? When you have Nintendo published games getting ~70% of total Nintendo Switch retail software sales it's not going to die. That said this thread is amusing. Nintendo is absolutely killing it sales-wise with the Switch so I don't see them changing their gameplan at all of 1 or 2 tent-pole games a year since that seems to be enough.

Well, Nintendo makes close to 70% of the quality output of the Switch's library so it's only fair.



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MasonADC on 11 February 2019
Megiddo said:
MasonADC said:

I thought the whole “ Nintendo fans only buy first party games” would have died out by now 

Why would you think that? When you have Nintendo published games getting ~70% of total Nintendo Switch retail software sales it's not going to die. That said this thread is amusing. Nintendo is absolutely killing it sales-wise with the Switch so I don't see them changing their gameplan at all of 1 or 2 tent-pole games a year since that seems to be enough.

To be fair, no 10 million seller third party titles are being put on the switch 



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Cerebralbore101 on 11 February 2019

Nintendo usually announces their Directs a few days in advance. So this rumor is false.



Megiddo on 11 February 2019
MasonADC said:
Megiddo said:

Why would you think that? When you have Nintendo published games getting ~70% of total Nintendo Switch retail software sales it's not going to die. That said this thread is amusing. Nintendo is absolutely killing it sales-wise with the Switch so I don't see them changing their gameplan at all of 1 or 2 tent-pole games a year since that seems to be enough.

To be fair, no 10 million seller third party titles are being put on the switch 

I'm pretty sure FIFA is on the Switch?



MasonADC on 11 February 2019
Cerebralbore101 said:
Nintendo usually announces their Directs a few days in advance. So this rumor is false.

Directs has been announced 1 day in advance multiple times, like the March 8th direct last year 



MasonADC on 11 February 2019
Megiddo said:
MasonADC said:

To be fair, no 10 million seller third party titles are being put on the switch 

I'm pretty sure FIFA is on the Switch?

Ah yes, the one game I forget, that also is mainly a European/ RoTW driver, which just so happens to be switch weakest/ Sony strongest market. I think you get my point. 



Paatar on 11 February 2019
Cerebralbore101 said:
Nintendo usually announces their Directs a few days in advance. So this rumor is false.

1. Nintendo usually announces directs one day before hand, not a few days.

2. The OP has the title incorrect. The leaker just said “the 13th is your lucky number”, it does not specify if the 13th will be the day of the direct or announcement of one.

 

if it’s the day of the direct then we will get an announcement tomorrow morning, if it’s the day of the announcement, we will get the direct Thursday. 

if nothing happens Wednesday, that’s when we will know if this rumor is false. 



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