Only Minecraft and Street Fighter for May? Can Switch sell well this month?

[zorg1000]

Zod95 said:

zorg1000 said:

My signs pointing to Switch becoming the 3DS successor basically is from what Iwata said in the years leading up to Switch's release about struggling to support two seperate hardware lines and aiming for a fully unified platform. That can't happen if 3DS gets a successor that isn't Switch.

The vision and reality are always different. I trust more the claims of today than the hopes of yesterday.

 

zorg1000 said:

Pretty much the entire world will disagree with you that Wii U had a better concept and software output than Wii U, like you are literally the only person i have ever seen say that. The concept of Wii was to get make gaming accessible to everybody and feature unique software, the concept of Wii U was to get ports of PS3/360 games. Wii had a steady flow of 1st party software with a few droughts in there (most notably mid 08-mid 09 and the final year) and had well over 100 3rd party games each year, Wii U had 3-4 months droughts between 1st party releases and only had like 100 3rd party titles in its entire lifespan.

Maybe we're talking about different things. I was referring to the fact that the WiiU was designed not only to deliver an innovative experience (2-screen gameplay and all the sensors, etc.) but also to cater to the HD market the PS3 and X360 were dominating. That double strategy seemed to be a better concept than the Wii (which won the previous generation with only 37% of the market share, because it was out of the HD experience). As a result, the WiiU's beginning had several top-quality HD titles from 3rd parties (that's what I meant by a better software output).

Switch is even better, once it has a more powerful machine that is also closer to the PC architecture, while keeping the previous innovations (sensors from the Wii and 2-screen gameplay from the WiiU) and going even further (with the different portable experiences). As a result, it's getting 3rd party titles that the previous Nintendo consoles didn't get.

Switch is walking the same path WiiU did and I see nothing but the same fate.

is there a reason you ignored the other 3 paragraphs?

the claims of today do not contradict their vision from 2014/2015. stating that they are looking into ways to appeal to handheld gamers, that they arent working on a 3DS successor at the moment and that 3DS can coexist with Switch at the moment do not in any way, shape or form disprove that Nintendo has created a single unified platform going forward.

Wii had great marketing, an easy to understand concept that made gaming more accessible & had a steady flow of unique software.

Wii U had terrible marketing, a poor concept revolving around getting ports and had constant droughts.

Switch so far has great marketing, an easy to understand concept and has a steady flow of unique software.

Im not saying Switch will sell like Wii, im just saying in terms of marketing, design & software it shares much more in common with Wii than with Wii U.