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Miyamotoo on 13 July 2017
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Nuvendil said:
Lawlight said:

It's not false. It's simple mathematics. You're got 1 million early Switch adopters with not much of a choice.

Yes, because Switch owners HAVE to buy games regularly or their brain explodes.  These are games not cocaine.  If owners think the game is bad it won't sell. Lack of competition means its easier to get attention.  It does NOT mean it is easier to get positive attention.  Wonderful 101 launched on an even more starved Wii U and sold like ass.  And the Dreamcast and Saturn were home to many games that had little competition that sold terribly.  Just a lack of competition doesn't mean sales will go up.

This isn't cocaine, where taking out the premium dealers results in people buying the shady crap cut with contaminants in some rat hole.  These are video games.

Well said.

When Nintendo games are selling good some people will say that's because owners doesn't have anything to play, when some game bombs like W101 that was launched on even much more starved Wii U, they will say it's because bad game. Nintendo really can't win in any case for some people.

 

Lawlight said:
Kerotan said:

I'd argue that some said it would flop and some said it was the next splatoon. Most however thought it would do good. Somewhere in between. And it's turning out exactly like that. 

I personally was surprised when everyone was claiming that the 100k debit was amazing given that half the people predicted above that in the prediction thread. Miyamoto predicted 150k, tbone 111k for example. Maybe they are right though - maybe it will do 600k-725k LTD.

And ARMS actually sold 120k with digital sales 1st week, and sales would even better if Nintendo ship more Switch units instead just 35k, so I wasn't too off in any case.