| silvergunner said: Nintendo haven't bothered much with E3 since Iwata's doomed strategy of abandoning talking to the press and releasing endless, monotonous YouTube videos instead. In the years following the Year of Luigi, you never really hear anything in Europe about Nintendo games unless you're reading a specific Nintendo article. PlayStation and Xbox games you hear and read about even in pop culture in comparison. When a random person who has never played an Xbox knows who master chief is, but can't explain how Splatoon works, Nintendo has a problem. As for people going to saying sales figures are good... At the time the NES Mini was discontinued officially, it had sold more units than the Switch up to that point, even though the potential market for it was much lower. I honestly believe most switch owners are diehard Wii-U fans who upgraded in hope the Switch won't be a (10 years out of date) box of broken promises like the Wii-U was. |
Nintendo Dircts are not monotonous, they are quite intresting, they are basicly Nintendos mini E3. Not true, I am pretty sure you read and heard about 3D Mario, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Zelda and Pokemon also. Thats kind of reaching, Halo is alongside Forza most famous and biggest MS IP and it was available even of 1st Xbox, Splatoon is new Nintendo IP and it was launched just one game for now. But sales for Splatoon 1 and pre orders for Splatoon 2 are telling how much is popular Splatoon is, not to mention that Splatoon on Wii U outsold Halo 5 on XB1.
You don't know what are you talking. Nintendo sold around 2-2.5m NES Mini console at end of April, Switch at end of April sold around 3.5m. Offcourse, Switch is successful because die hard Nintendo fans are buying it because they don't want another Wii U situation, it doesn't have anything with fact that Switch has great concept, has great systems sellers games right from launch and great branding and marketing.
