| bonzobanana said: As for Switch hardware sales we are predicting huge success on the basis of a supply restricted product. It's pretty clear its a stronger product than wii u but there will be a drop off in demand and European sales are far below the USA. There is also a false expectation of the performance level that you see in many threads, people claiming it's close to xbox one etc. It's nowhere near that and not even close to Tegra Shield box as the clocks are much reduced. As more games come out especially comparable games people will develop a better understanding of what it is capable of. It just feels we are in wii and wii u territory again with Nintendo fans making completely false claims about its performance level. There really does seem to be a gap between the perceived performance level of the Switch and what it's known spec is and how games are performing. You wonder if part of the launch success of Switch is down to such unrealistic expectations. The thing is with the wii u we saw day 1 practically that it was delivering versions of games that were inferior to ps3 and xbox 360. Most of the multi-format games were inferior on so many levels, inferior controls, inferior frame rates, lower detail, slower loading, sometimes lower resolution (sonic all-star racing), poor online functionality. We aren't seeing that on Switch because it simply doesn't have such third party games, it's pretty much Nintendo's own games plus indie games, retro games and nothing that requires a high performance level. No easy way of making a direct performance comparison so a false perception of the performance level is likely to last much longer because that perception will go unchallenged for longer. However saying that the wii succeeded despite its performance level but that pulled in many casual players but the market seems different now. |
Nintendo always had lower sales in Europe compared to US, US was always strongest Nintendo market. You dont have any proof that demand for Switch droped in Europe, Europe is not one single market like US or Japan, in Europe you have 44 countries and they all have difrent sales, and actually it seems that Switch is still selling strong in strongest Europe countries like Germany, France, UK and Spain.
Nobody really saying that Switch is close to XB1 performance, but reality is that Switch is somewhere between Wii U and XB1 in performance.
I already wrote about comparison of Wii U and PS3/Xbox360 performance, if you really want to make comparison compare PS3/Xbox 360 1st year 3rd party games with Wii U 1st year 3rd party games, comparing 1st year PS3/Xbox 360 3rd party games and PS3/Xbox 360 3rd party games that are developed 7 years later makes night and day difference.
Like I alreade wrote in other thread: "Of Course they struggled Wii U multi platform games struggled when when devs were doing 7 years games for PS3/Xbox360 while Wii U was brand new console they didnt know (look PS3/Xbox360 games at launch). But again you had some 3rd party games on Wii U that were better than they were on PS3/Xbox360. Also Wii U architecture was very different compared to PS3/Xbox360, PS3/Xbox360 had strong CPUs (especially PS3) but they had week GPU and they had very small amount of RAM, while Wii U had weaker CPU but stronger and more capable GPU and much more RAM, and multi platform devs ofcourse didn't had enuf time to make most of Wii U hardware like they did with PS3/Xbox360 because they left platform in 1st year. Switch has stronger and much more capable CPU than Xbox360, PS3 CPU is totally different story because it was crazy strong, PS3 CPU is stronger even compared to PS4 CPU if you comparing core with core in single in some operations, but Switch CPU is much more better for modern games that are using much more effectively multi core CPUs than PS3s CPU. And thats only about CPU, Switch GPU is few times more capable and stronger, you have 6x more usable RAM, and not to mention architecture and tech gains. Reality is that even in portable mode Switch is stronger and more capable than Wii U not to mention PS3/Xbox360, thats why Switch even in portable mode is runing Zelda BotW better than Wii U, thats why MK8D is runing at 1080p/60fps on Switch compared to 720p on Wii U, you need around 2.5x stronger hardware to run 720p game at 1080p resolution."
