Soundwave said:
If by pleny of people you mean the same people who bought a Wii U, sure (minus that chunk of Wii U buyers who were so upset with Nintendo over the system that they won't be coming back, which I'd say is probably a 20%-30% chunk of that). As a home console, it's functionality is fairly poor and it doesn't have the price benefit either, PS4/XB1 will be $250, maybe even $199.99 by next year with thousands of games available, I don't really think the same sales pitch of "well we got Mario and Zelda" is going to seriously be a game changer in that sense. Switch is going to need to hold that 3DS base, and even that I think Nintendo is in for a tough challenge there. There's no Wiimote miracle coming to bail out the fact that it's a fairly mediocre proposition console wise, terrific Nintendo games notwithstanding but every Nintendo console has terrific Nintendo games. |
finally someone that applies logical thinking to the Switch.
People's arguments that the Switch will sell like hotcakes because "it's amazing because it's both a handheld and a portable and a hybrid", so switch sales=3ds sales+WiiUsales+hybridsales" , and "it will have mario zelda, pokemon etc"...
Like you I don't see it at all, putting both market onto one device's shoulders. Putting it up against everything else (mobile, PC, xbox, playstation) is a risky proposition
I believed in the "hybride" ecosystem, with two devices completing each other, one being a powerful home console and the other being a handheld, sharing games, OS, architecture.
But one handheld that you plugged into a TV, and that you label a home console and therefore make it underpowered in front of the Xbox and PS4... I can't believe that this is Nintendo end strategy.
The more time pass the more I think they have something else brewing in their R&D department, maybe a device more in line with the mobile market.
