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The_Yoda on 20 April 2015
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spemanig said:
The_Yoda said:

It does if that customer is buying used.  That (strictly talking consoles) is still a lost customer.  If I also buy all my games used then they miss out completely.


No offense dude, but you'd be one of maybe a dozen or so gamers, world wide, who would actively buy the NX used in protest of its early release in some feeble attemp to "stick it" to Nintendo. The overwhelming majority would by the system new and buy all of the games new too. What you describe is insignificant and happens for every console. It's probably happening to the PS4 right now. Doubt Sony is losing sleep over all those "lost costumers."

It would have nothing to do with protest and everything to do with a lack of confidence.  I won't pay premium prices for Nintendo if they would yank support so quickly. If they do that then I will save as much of my money as possible and that means buying used several years late in the generation.  I have nothing against Sony but I didn't buy the PS3 until years after it came out.  I spent $150 got the middle revision of the console, 3 controllers and ten games.  It was mostly financial but also had to do with hardware reliability.  That gen the 360 had a horrible failure rate and the PS3 was better but still not great.  Nintendo has yet to let me down when it comes to hardware lasting (all my systems are still playable) and I am less apprehensive about buying their hardware day one. Now my issue will be support related rather than hardware related and for that reason I will not adopt early if they launch a new home console next year (which i very, very seriously doubt they will).


Nintendo's base is no longer what it once was I doubt they can really afford to be letting that base down.