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irstupid on 02 February 2017
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Neodegenerate said:
Goodnightmoon said:

Or some people have a hard time making a distinction between a big line up and a good one, a good one makes you want to buy the console, a big one is just big, following the logic of this kind of forums Wiiu had a way better launch up, but that's just wrong, as hardcore Nintendo fan as I can be I thought WiiU had an awfull launch up, i recomended people not to buy it and i completely ignored it for more than a year (yes, me ignoring a Nintendo console, that some epic achievement), and so did everyone, but the thing is that is not gonna happen with Switch and BoTW has a lot to do with it, a single game can make an entire line up good as long as it achieves the purpose of a good launch up: make you want to buy the console.

Sorry but no.  A good launch doesn't happen in that week.  It doesn't even happen in that month.  Early adopters are buying regardless of the launch line-up.  Pre-orders are being bought by people who have no interest in the system at all.  They are buying it in hopes to turn it around for more money on Ebay.  The same way it has happened with every console thusfar.  That number might not be huge, but it exists and is only a portion of my point.

If you are a baseball fan let's see if this helps.  You equating having Zelda as all you need for a great launch lineup is the same as me saying that a team of people who can't hit above .200 is a great offense because they have one guy who hits above .400.  It holds no damn weight.

I edited the hell outta this, I feel this makes my point better.

So then shouldn't one consider  good launch line-up being the first few months of the system and not day 1.

I mean if the system is going to sell out regardless in teh first month/shipment, then does it really matter if it has only one game.

By the times hpiment two is coming, buyers will have now two games. Zelda and Mario Kart?  I dont' know the release schedule. By the time shipment 3 comes out, add splatoon 2 to that list. (again rough guessing from memory)

As you said shipment 1 will be sold out regardless. With mario kart and zelda (and some others) it's not a stretch to say that shipment 2 should sell decent if not also sell out. By shipment 3 you have a very good line-up of games out and looking at the schedule there is more good games coming out basically monthly.

The Wii U had the problem of having a ton of games on release and then nothing for months. And most of those games were already palyable on 360/p3/one/ps4 and thus you probably just purchased them on a system you already own if you didn't buy the Wii U at launch. So in the following months what was the incentive to buy a WIi U? nothign was coming out. You played basically everythign it has to offer on something else.