What Nintendo learned from Sony

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RolStoppable said:
This is a case of blind admiration for Sony.

Nintendo had good marketing campaigns before the PS4 (remember "Wii would like to play"?), so it's not like Nintendo had to look at what Sony was doing.

Games-wise, Nintendo isn't really doing anything different than what they've done since forever. The one major difference is the timing of the releases. Compare what Nintendo is releasing in year 1 for Switch to what Sony released in year 1 for the PS4 and you should realize that Nintendo is not following Sony at all. All Nintendo is doing is proper execution of what they have had since a long time.

Lastly, it isn't hard to say whether Switch will be a success or failure. It was clear since the presentation on January 12th that Switch was going to be a hit. One only needed to properly analyze the system and its games, and the only reasonable conclusion was success.

It is an admiration for Sony, but simply not a blind one.

If you compare to older Nintendo commercials, sure.There are some great ones out there.But the marketing for the Wii U was terrible(Not only it did not convey the message well about what the system is, but also tried to appeal to the wrong market, as in the Wii U was mostly made up of more hardcore gamers, not casual ones), and the 3DS was decent.With the Switch they are doing a great job at it, but the blueprint of the style of that type of commercial was first used by Sony with the PS4.(remember the first Switch trailer that alot of people pointed out that it felt alot like a PS4/Sony trailer).Yu might say they relearned how to do proper commercials with the PS4.At least thats my take on it.

As for the second point, I should have stated that this diversity is important alongside that they are releasing so early in the console life, so that it gives diversity out of the game(Ill retify that later in the OP).Wereas Sony have the third parties to do that hard wor for them, Nintendo does not have the same luxury, so its good and important for Switch to have this diversity so early in its life, the same that made the PS4 thrive.

As for the conclusion, I agree with you.After all, I made a thread about predicting that the Switch will do 100+ millions.But Im trying to stay as grounded on facts as possible.