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Zkuq on 27 July 2017
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Wyrdness said:
Zkuq said:

I didn't expect you to have spread your links across multiple posts. I looked up one post and had no reason to assume there would be more. Also, I didn't talk anything about labeling every link individually. I gave an example of a horrible label that gave me no idea about what to expect.

This thread seems to originally be more about ridiculing predictions than properly discussing them, and that's how I'm going to treat links labeled with 'I think the threads here were more hilarious tbh.' unless given a reason to treat them otherwise. Also, my main point wasn't even about there not having been such bad predictions. It was just a side remark because I hadn't seen any such low predictions myself, which I took as a sign of there not having been many such predictions. I was sure there must have been such predictions but not having seen any, I assumed they would be relatively rare. They still don't seem common to me.

Then you must have been away from VGC for a long time because such silly predictions weren't hard to find even after launch some people still held out on such predictions it's only now that the realization is starting to kick in for them.

The original post had analyst predictions that were just as bad as those predictions are Wii U range numbers for 12 months so ofcourse they're going to get stick as well from, those predictions are in the same boat as the people in the links.

Uh, nope. I honestly didn't see them. Or maybe I did see some, but not enough to remember seeing any. Maybe I've just learned to filter the ridiculous stuff without paying attention. It seems you do have a point about analyst numbers though. Personally I don't consider it a problem since short-term success and long-term success are two difference things (that probably correlate somewhat) and Switch's long-term success is still unproven, but yeah, it seems they are actually pretty low for the first year. Still, as short-term predictions, I don't think they're that unreasonable. Obviously they're incorrect, but like I've said, there was also a lot of negativity regarding Switch (with the price being a major point).