Reggie: Nintendo Switch Is Setting Sales Records Every Day, We’ve Turned the Industry on Its Ear

[Eagle367]

Soundwave said:

Eagle367 said:

Two things:

Nintendo has increased their stocks for the switch supposedly by a lot compared to 2 million.

Second thing is during investor's meeting Nintendo always and I mean always reveals the number of consoles sold. That is why they feel no need to tell it to us as of this moment. You can see the number so if it is 2.05 million rather than 2, you'll know and it won't be that much but if it's 2.5 million or 3 million we'll also know. 

The thing about Nintendo artificially reducing stalk is bullshit. It's just that demand really was higher than reason indicated. If it was undershipped, it wouldn't have been the best selling console launch for an obscure country like Spain. If Nintendo wanted to undership, why would you send more consoles than sony did with ps4 to a place irrelevent to Nintendo like Spain? Have you even heard of Spain in relation to Nintendo and it being good before? It also was the best launch week compared to all other Nintendo consoles in USA. If Nintendo sold better than all consoles in one obscure terrority and it sold more than any of it's previous consoles in it's largest sellig territory. In France as well it sold more than other Nintendo consoles. And in one week it sold 1.5 million in the month of MARCH, where and how in the hell did Nintendo artificially undership? If all of that is undershipping then Nintendo must have been psychic to know that it would sell that well compared to the previous commercial failure of the Wii U. If you really want to press home th epoint that Nintendo will spin consoles sold, they simply can't. That's it. If they wanted to spin, they'd do it when Wii U sold like Garbage, but they didn't. Why would they do it with one of it's best console launches ever. The investor's meeting will reveal everything

We don't know what they've increased production to, assuming it's still in the 2 million range that's still a pretty small amount of stock per territory when you break it down. 

PS4, XB1, Switch have all successful launch windows, I think the main take away is aiming at core/enthusiast gamers for launch is the best way to go. By having Zelda: BotW at launch, Nintendo ensured the first 2-3 million units are a pretty easy sale. We need to see where it goes after that. 

Wii U and 3DS had failed launches because Nintendo banked on casuals/"expanded audience" gamers by making Nintendogs + Cats and Nintendo Land + NSMBU the lead launch games in the era of the smartphone and thought they would be evergreen hits like that style of game was for the DS and Wii. They did not understand that market had moved on. 

You need to excite enthusiast gamers to your product in this day and age, and Zelda: BotW does that. It is Nintendo's most epic game arguably and one of its hardest and least forgiving, this is something made for the extreme gamer. That's what gets people excited though. 

Still the point stands that your logic is they will spin the numbers but I have clearly told you that they never do that at investor's meetings. What that means is we will know in april so your argument has fallen apart. Also you have just started a completely new argument because your previous one fell apart. I was not aware we were talking about the future? That argument was never initiated between you and me and it will not happen now as well. I will not talk about something we were never talking about to begin with. Just admit you were misguided about your whole point of Nintendo spinning numbers later and we can move on