How can a company be this out of touch...

[Areym]

LipeJJ said:

Areym said:

It will be to casuals who make or break consoles. if you're a parent and your kid wants a gaming console, why pick up a Switch with a weak lineup and inferior power over a PS4 or XB1 for the same (or lower) price with 3/4 years worth of games? For us, hardcore fans of our respective consoles, $50 is nothing. For casual buyers, might make all the difference.

Are you sure that's how parents shop? I mean, are they aware of hardcore things like power, amount of games, etc? I think they either buy what's cheaper or what their children want... so if the kid wants to play Mario they buy a Nintendo console, but if he/she likes to play CoD, they will buy a PS4/XB1. Besides, parents don't stand for the majority of the market. And like you said, for hardcore gamers $50 mean very little (maybe it can become a 2nd console of choice with that segment, like the Wii).

Fair enough, I'm not a parent, I can't speak for all of them but kids these days know/care very much about Mario, they care about CoD (sadly enough) so the Marios and the Zeldas will only attract the devoted nintendo fans, which is perfectly fine. As far as the power of the console, you're right, casuals do tend to care little about it as we saw with how much the Wii sold, although that sold on the gimmick of motion controls. I think informed shoppers will be swayed towards the PS4/XB1.

As you said, the kid will decide what console he wants and I just don't see enough potential in the Switch to pull kids into it.