Nintendo is letting 3DS cannibalize Switch

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Hynad said:

I also have friends in Japan, and the two of them told me there's a lot of enthusiasm around the Switch there. Many say things like "finally a Nintendo portable console with good graphical abilities". It's like 80% of the entire japanese gaming population is very positive about it. But my friends have yet to talk to the remaining 20%, so they don't yet have a definite assessment.

Thank for this info as well.

But this also confirms to me the reason I hate "My cousin Vinny told me xxxx" type comments. Anecdotal evidence is interesting...but using it to judge an entire gaming population is obviously flawed. This especially seems to be a problem with Japan, since it's treated as some unanimous foreign entity that either loves or hates any given product, rather than another country that likely has its own varied taste. I've been in manga/anime forums before where Japan's entire opinion on something will be judged based on a 500-person poll in a small magazine, and it's so annoying when people miss the context.

Still, I probably give the benefit of the doubt more often than I should.