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Soundwave on 04 May 2017
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RolStoppable said:
Louie said:

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Well, that was a long post haha. Last but not least I want to say that even though we don't agree on this I respect your opinion and respect you as a poster. Maybe my posts comes off as harsh but I'm not trying to attack you. (It's the same as in the feminism thread: I'm not against women's rights, I just think we should look at the data instead of arguing from an emotional point of view). 

It was a well-written post, but the bolded part makes me lose respect for you. Soundwave will brush off most of the things you say while constructing strawman arguments to make it look like you are talking nonsense. He has been doing this for years.

He also changes his mind on a whim and tries to fit new data points into his view of the world in order to never have to admit to be wrong about something. In the last couple of years he has been a strong proponent for Nintendo going third party or teaming up with Sony/Microsoft/Disney, because Nintendo supposedly can't compete. Now two months after the Switch launch he says that Microsoft should become a third party publisher on Switch. Another example is his thread about Switch having a soft launch and the system isn't going to get started for real until it will have a relaunch in fall in time for the holiday season. Or his thread about how Nintendo fans should be content with Switch selling 40m lifetime, because that would already be a good result. Both of the aforementioned threads are from 2017.

I want you to know what kind of poster you are talking to. The effort you put in will largely go to waste and you are basically talking to a brickwall. You are better off spending the time for such large posts on starting a new thread instead of having them lost in the shuffle.

I said they should consider a content sharing deal with MS/Sony not go third party (one in which they get exclusives from Sony/MS on Switch/NX and more than vice versa as well), which I'd still be ok with. I did not expect them to execute so well in launching the Switch with regards to being able to find an older audience though, I'll gladly admit that. 

But you have been saying for years now that Nintendo must focus on casual gaming and they can't compete with Sony/MS for that core audience ... yet Switch is doing exactly what you said Nintendo couldn't do. 

Almost 80% of Switch buyers are not buying 1,2 Switch or Just Dance. They are buying core product like Zelda with an insane attach rate. Maybe, just maybe that formula of aiming at core players can work too, Switch is its own system, it doesn't have to be a Wii 3, in fact it would be selling worse if it was in any way branded as a Wii anything.