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Nuvendil on 01 March 2017
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Qwark said:
SpokenTruth said:
Edge Magazine.

Horizon - 9
Zelda - 10

Amazon

Horizon #1

Zelda #2 

Amazon Yearly 2017 - the chart that bloody matters:

Zelda: #3 and 8

Horizon: #4

Not that this chart is that worthwhile in software sales predictions.  And yeah, Zelda Switch is sold out for a long while and the Wii U stock is struggling to stay up.  If you're going to gloat at least do it right though.

monocle_layton said:
Nuvendil said:

Because quality is of little help when your marketing is so spectacularly horrible for 70% of your products life that half the potential customers don't know it exists and the majority of the other half feel almlst embarrassed to buy one.  Sony has had some bumps in the road this gen - 2014 wasn't an amazing year as far as their exclusives go - but their marketing was exceptionally well done and proliffic.  Good marketing can sell almost anything, bad marketing can tank almost anything.

And there are numerous other peoblems the Wii U had.

The more I think about the Wii u, the more I wish nintendo went with a classic system. It really feels like a switch that wasn't ready to be released. 

 

In the end, I'm just glad we can move on

Well the Nintendo's biggest fumble with the Wii U was that they created an *evolutionary* system but tried to sell it as *revolutionary* system.  The Wii U brought touch screen augmentation of traditional controls to console gaming with second screen additions as well.  This could have been used very well.  But the Wii U was shoved out the door a year early at least, just looking at it it looks like a prototype that's been polished into something basically sellable.

And nah, the Switch's design philosophy is totally different.  One is a 2 screen experience concerned with second screen gaming and touch screen augmentation.  Switch is a traditional console with portability.  You can't even do second screen gaming and touch controls have to be completely optional for the games to be completely compatible with the system.