April 2017 NPD Thread! Switch #1 (280k), Mario Kart: 550k

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Lawlight said:

the_dengle said:

You are the one who said "quality doesn't matter." Now that it's convenient, because you wanted to count Gravity Rush 2 as a "big game" while excluding 1-2 Switch and Yoshi (3DS), suddenly "production value" is a factor. Try not to be so predictable, it's boring.

1996 "people are only buying Mario 64 because there's nothing else to play"

2001 "people are only buying Smash Bros Melee because there's nothing else to play"

2006 "people are only playing Wii Sports because Wii has no gamesss"

Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme. Nintendo let third parties have their way with the 3DS launch and it didn't work out so hot. So yeah, having a big game at launch and another big game a couple months later is a good strategy. It wouldn't do any good to release 8 big games in the system's first two months when it keeps selling out anyway.

1-2 Switch is a mini game collection. Of course I wouldn't count it as a big game. No more than I would count the several digital only or VR SCE games as big.

Quality doesn't matter when there's nothing else to buy - people will buy whatever's available. Quality would matter if, say, there's been 10 big games released in the matter of a few months.

And just because you're using years and examples doesn't make it less true (I like how you use a bundled game as one of them).

The switch has 40 games in its arsenal right now. You are only saying 10 so people have options to buy many games but its just two of them are most likely Zelda and mk8d. These games will be selling and making the rounds on the charts for years to come just like how mk7 and gtav do it

 The stupid excuse of lack of games has become more like a meme than a serious discussion. In fact someone should work on making it one