WSJ: Switch Fails To Turn On Investors

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Hiku said:

GribbleGrunger said:

Investors on Friday shrugged off the announcement, sending the company’s share price down 6.5%.

Some investors blamed a lack of surprise in the announcement for the lukewarm market response, saying the company raised high expectations by withholding details about the hardware for more than a year

The idea that they had to keep it a secret so that none of their close competitors would copy this idea and beat them to it on the market was ridiculous now that you look at what Switch is.
Did anyone at Nintendo really think Sony or Microsoft would do this?

As for smaller competitors, there are already some who have done similar things.

It's a neat idea but if investors were lefting saying "that's it?" ... I don't blame them. 

This isn't an idea that warranted 18 months of top level secrecy.