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Soundwave on 29 April 2016
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Mummelmann said:
Dulfite said:
One thing I don't get is people doubting them launching in March instead of the holidays. Your launching a new product. Whoever is a die hard fan of Nintendo is going to buy it regardless of price and time of the year (me). If they launched in holidays and it was discounted or had bundles making it a lesser value, then they would lose out on the money from people like me that are willing to pay for the full price at launch. Holidays should, at the very least, be a few months AFTER a device launches, in order for a company to get as much profit as possible from the die hard fans before selling a bunch of devices to people waiting for bundles and discounts. It's just good business.

It's good business to miss the craziest shopping season of the year? There's a reason manufacturers and game developers flood the last quarter with games and devices; this is the season when a lot more consumers buy a lot more stuff they wouldn't buy otherwise.
Look at the figures for revenue in all sectors of shopping for the holiday season and tell us again how it's good business to miss this opportunity. Heck; look at vgchartz own numbers and the fact that roughly half of a calendar year's worth of sales comes in the last quarter of the year, with the last six weeks of the year often trippling or more the weekly numbers of previous quarters weekly numbers.

I'm sorry, but this is some really strange reasoning. New products do not get discounts if they launch during the holidays; they may well sell great numbers due to news value though. Look at how (relatively) well the Wii U did in its launch window over the holidays, and then look at how fast it sank into the 1st quarter, imagine if they postponed the launch until March the following year, the numbers would have been disastrous and the whole product could have lost absolutely all credibility as a commodity from the very start.

I think they honestly tried pretty hard to make the holiday season. They probably could have launched it in November, but they would have had supply issues possibly from having to fab a 14nm chip (which is too power efficient for them to pass up). I think actually they could have launched with just Zelda and Paper Mario + a bunch of third party ports if they absolutely had for November, but they probably would've been screwed for the next 2-4 months after that and would have had to suffer through a similar drought as the 3DS/Wii U and taking all that into account, they opted to move back into March.

If they can't have Christmas, I think they settled on having NX at least by the end of the fiscal year end.