DélioPT said:
couchmonkey said:
On GameCube: the system came out right at Christmas and had drougts right after; not to mention Sony had a much more popular machine with tons of momentum (including full 3rd party support behind it) before GC even launched. Lastly! it's not a handheld. I don't think there's a good comparison here at all. Nintendo has already addressed softwarefor the first8-9 months of release.
On 3rd parties! I do believe building a big user base will pull them in! look at DS. Wii might be the counterexample! but I think the industry had a bit of an agenda against Wii! and in fact! it did have more million selling 3rd party games than the competition - at least for a couple of years.
But I agree proving third parties can sell is a bonus which is probably why we're seeing the "weird" lineup that we are. Who knewBomberman could push 500000 units. Dkyrim should do great
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The GC comparison served a purpose: even if you have a great start, that doesn't garantee that that success is garanteed. You have to keep that momentum. And so far we have nothing showing that Nintendo will be able to do that.
There was no agenda against the Wii.
The userbase simply wasn't the same you had on XB360 and PS3. And in the end, that's the most important thing: who am i sellng my games to?
Sony and MS do what Nintendon't! :)
Their games are the same type of games that 3rd party make. Even the marketing/strategy goes in that direction; Nintendo doesn't make that type of games, no their strategy goes exactly that way. Therefore, Nintendo doesn't attract PS4/XB1 fans.
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On GameCube comparison, I think Nintendo has shown a lineup of 1st party Switch games that will keep releasing all year long, where GC had about a six month gap from the launch software to Eternal Darkeness and Super Mario Sunshine and started falling apart during that drought. What does Switch have in 2018? Good question, but one that doesn't need to be answered at E3. I think it could happen anytime before end of November (depending on how things go with the games they've already announced).
I will agree that if Nintendo doesn't announce anything for 2018 until January and if they get to announcement time and reveal a six month gap in first party software, that would be a problem, but so far that's not the strategy at all, the releases have been spaced out.
I won't pull out my tin foil hat regarding Wii, not on topic, and you're right that not every game makes sense on Nintendo.
