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irstupid on 02 February 2017
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Hynad said:
irstupid said:

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.

No, we shouldn't because one week after the purchase, once you have finished Zelda and wants a new experience, what's left for you? That anemic range of titles that don't look really compelling.

If you beat Zelda in a week, I say get a job or something because you have too much time on your hands.

But your ignoring my point. A system sells out day 1 regardless if it has 1 killer game or 3. Thus there is no point talkig about its day 1 launch titles. If your not already pre-ordered, sitting in line or planning to pay upprices on ebay, launch line-ups never matter to you.

You need to look at what is available for that second wave coming in. For most all systems, that is the exact same as launch line-up. That is because systems launch in holiday season and all big games release that same time or just before it. Their is nothign really new until like March or something 4-5 months later.

The Switch though will be having their second wave of games coming out basically when the second wave of shipments would be coming in. So to average consumer who isn't standin in line all night to grab a system, for them when the system is finally available there is a bigger "launch line-up" Zelda now has Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. or Arms, or Splatoon2, or whatever else you can think of before the summer is even upon us. By the time a typical system launches, holiday, the Switch has a killer line-up with the new 3D mario releasing.

So sit and couch talk abotu how teh line-up sucks with only zelda while teh system remains a hot commodity throughout the year due to frequent big relealses of games.