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Miyamotoo on 21 October 2016
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potato_hamster said:
Miyamotoo said:

OK, thats your opinion, but reality is that Switch with Pokemon, Splatoon, Monster Hunter, DQ, Yokai Watch...can hit around 20m only in Japan. Its way to early to prognoze LT sale numbers of Switch, but I can see easily passing 40m.

Actually, it's my opinion.

He're the part you're forgetting or ignoring: Are those games going to make people who never bought a Wii U at $249 or a 3DS at $149 want to turn around and spend $299 (rumored price) to play those games this time? What is the appeal to non-nintendo fans that the Wii U and 3DS didn't provide that's going to convince them to spend even more money?

Because I think they won't. In fact I think that even Nintendo's fans buying less hardware, because apparently they can get the whole Nintendo games library on one device instead of two. How many people do you know that own a Wii U that do not own a 3DS? Because of the very few people I know that own a Wii U, they all own a 3DS. Most of them own multiple 3DSs. There's far less incentive for Nintendo fans to invest in additional hardware this go around than at any previous point before the gameboy.

Actually yes, Switch seems very interesting and cool (I will say way more interesting than 3DS and Wii U) and definitely some people will like idea having home console and handheld in one, so yes, definitely some people who didn't buy 3DS or Wii U will buy Switch. For instance Switch would be great secondary console for some PS4/XB1 owners.

I know plenty of people who have Wii U and dont have 3DS, I am actualy one of them. Point is that you have some people that like more handheld gaming and you have some people that like more home console gaming, and Switch will offer bouth.

I don't think Switch will be fail at all, in worst case it will have mediocre sales, but with right marketing and pricing it could have very good sales.

 

Arkaign said:
Unless this can hit for $199 or less, this looks like an absolute disaster. :(

AGAIN with the bundling of things people don't necessarily want. I have less than zero interest in a bundled display. It just means a higher % of BoM cost is going into the display than making a decent home system. Once again third party porting is going to be bad to nonexistent, performance and architecture won't be conducive to easy porting either. So big stuff like Madden, COD, GTA, etc will almost certainly miss the device. 

LOL @ the people who thought this was going to be some high-end AMD-based device. Just wow.

You realise that New 3DS XL is $199 and that is still selling pretty good, right!?