The Nintendo Switch will sell less than the Wii U...

[Nautilus]

barneystinson69 said:

Nautilus said:

Sincerely, that is bs.First, because I read an eurogamer article of a guy that went hands on with Zelda and he said that the game runned better than the Wii U version.(Cant seem to find the article now though).Its either a really bad luck with maybe a bug the guy got, bad programming for the demo, or the unlikely chance that he is simply lying.I personally dont believe that the Switch version will be worse tecnically.

And its comming alongside the Wii U version.And for better or worse, its going to be marketed as a Switch game.Look no further than the presentation.There it was listed as a switch game, so that it dosent create confusion, and only on the Treehouse they said it was comming to Wii U on the same day.Not only that, but I also believe the physical version will be extremely limited, making this essentially a Switch game for whoever wants a physical copy.And last and most important:the general public dont have a Wii U and barely knows about it, so for them its a Switch title.And Zelda looks gorgeous, even as a cross gen title.It is going to work as long as the marketing on this device is done right.An ad on Superbowl could go a LONG way, for example.

But that is all speculation. What makes you think the Switch is getting more public attention than the Wii U? 

As it is your claim.

As for the why, look at the recent exposure to the brand in the last year.Pokemon Go, Super Mario Run, all those things are helping people recognize the brand, either for the first time or people that have forgotten about it.Secondly, the switch already has games that people are really excited about.Mario zelda, Splatoon, Xenoblade, etc.And neither the Wii U and 3DS had that(from the beginning) as far as I can remember.That in turn becomes into more discussion.I mean, just look at how crazy was this past few months with the Switch rumours.People say thats standard affair for new consoles launches, but I dont remember that much discussion (before launch) for XOne and PS4.

And if you want more raw data, just look at the attention Zelda got at E3, being game of the year.Nintendo also was the most discussed company for the event in social media if Im not mistaken.Not only that, but the Switch teaser trailer is almost on 24 millions views, and that just on Nintendo official youtube channel.The views on the trailers of the games that were shown in this presentations are already relatively high, and thats under 24 hours.(Mario is almost at 2 millions).

As I said, Nintendo just needs to market this.if it does, it has a chance of being very successful.Even if things like online subscription is a horrible thing.