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curl-6 on 23 October 2016
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thismeintiel said:
Faelco said:

Come on! Completely useless questions, all of them. It will sell 100M easily. It's awesome, we all know it, and you should be ashamed for not being hyped by a really clear and explicative trailer.

/sarcasm

I agree, this communication is simply awful and it's annoying. One year of "What's the NX? Is this the NX? Guys, my grandma told me the NX will be the market leader again!" spam, just to get to this parody of a console reveal (merely a confirmation of the already kinda confirmed main rumors), and then several months of silence again with the same spam, just with Switch instead of NX. It's ridiculous. I'm not sure yet about the future of this console, but one thing is certain: Nintendo's communication and marketing just sucks and the community overreacting and overhyping anything from them is tiring.

Exactly.  If they had this trailer and announced more info coming in a week or two, no problem at all.  But, you're going to wait ~2 1/2 months to say jack shit about it?  Which will also be only 2 1/2 months from launch?  Poor marketing on their part.  It may have peaked people interest, but this Xmas I see people forgetting all about it, which is Nintendo's fault, and buying even more tablets and smartphones for their mobile gaming.  It also doesn't help that some of the games showed playing on the NS had slowdown. 

All of this is why they are going to have to nail the price, or this is going to be Wii U all over again.  And that means a max price of $249, $199 for a real successful launch.  Of course, I'm expecting this to launch at $299-$349, which will seal its fate.

I generally agree; holding off until 2017 to show off the software is a mistake, and launching it at $300 USD or over would be suicide.