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Faelco on 17 March 2017
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Miyamotoo said:
Faelco said:

I don't think it's really related to games. Even Pokemon doesn't double sales, and even if it did that would mean they just learned about a new Pokemon releasing in the next few weeks (you can't double the year sales with a end of the year release). It doesn't seem realistic at all.  

 

I think it's more related to "Our launch is close or even  better than the PS4 launch in several countries so we can achieve PS4 level sales numbers". And that thinking is wrong (or at least it's way too soon for that), because a great launch was easily expected, but the rest of the year will be more complicated. 

Idont think thats so simple and Nintendo thinking just "we having better PS4 launch", they probably also seeing huge demand for Switch on market and that demand will be bigger with MK8 Deluxe, Splatoon 2, Fire Emblem Warriors, Mario Odyssey, possible new Pokemon...

Same thing, they see great sales/demand so they think that it will be like this all year and supposedly adjust their forecast accordingly.

And outside of the usual Christmas period, I don't think we'll have another month like March (we already had a lot of discussions about it here so I won't talk about the reasons again).  

And I seem to be the only one, but I'm really not sure we'll see a Pokemon game soon. They talked about 2018 and other "TBA" games during the Switch reveal, but they would intentionally leave Pokemon out of the reveal? And they would launch it the same Christmas as Mario? What about next Christmas? They're trying to put some time between each of their game because they have a limited number of big games releasing on the console (because of the lack of third party games so far), but they would release their 2 biggest games in the same period, it would seem weird.