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Miyamotoo on 27 July 2017
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Zkuq said:
Wyrdness said:

When you replied the first time I told you I'd linked the threads from there on out you have the knowledge of the links I'm not going to hold your hand and label every link just in case you turn up in a thread that type of thinking is even more daft on your part tbh as I said if you don't read through the thread it's not really my problem, numerous people have even quoted both set of links.

What are you meant to think of links? Well take a guess you're in a topic about predictions of analysts so what do you think the links were going to contain in that post topics on how to prepare pasta bake, you're going on about how in hind sight blah blah but then those topic highlight that even before hindsight some predictions were just silly even more highlighted that at first you didn't think anyone would even make such predictions.

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.

Miyamotoo said:

Long story in short, my last paragraph proves my point, all things that I mentioned kill any possible concerns that Switch will fail. All those concerns of some people were very shallow, while in same time they ignore or they didnt were aware of crucial positive things because Switch will be success. It was very obvious that Switch will sell more than 4-5m in 1st year, but this "analysts" failed to see that.

Price is one of the biggest factors in any product's success, so I don't think you can dismiss problems with it that easily. You would have to argue why the positive things trump the price instead of simply stating they do. The other problems probably wouldn't be big enough on their own, but stuff can add up, especially if there's bigger problems in combination. Also, saying the analysts ignored or weren't aware of the positives seems ignorant in itself, because even if you're aware of those things, it can still be difficult to see whether the positives or the negatives will prevail. How do you know the price is not too high compared to the positives, for example? A hunch, maybe?

I thought a good bit about the situation myself, trying to assess both the positives and the negatives, and I can't really say I knew which ones would prevail because there were both strong positives and strong negatives. I'd say that without access to more data or other knowledge to make reliable judgement about the situation, you can at best have a good hunch about how things are going. Maybe your instincts are good and it's all obvious to you so you can make correct predictions, but I bet that's not the case for most people.

Agree, but Switch price isn't high, isnt exactly most affordable but isn't exactly expensive, sales proves that. Those analyst form OP failed miserable, so they definitely ignored or weren't aware of the positives of Switch. For the record, all other analysts are far more positive about Switch. How I didnt know that price isnt to high!? Easy, Switch is real handheld and real home console in one, offers local multiplayer on the go, and offers two controllers for local multiplayer out of box, $299 inst too much for such a device, and like I wrote, sales proves that.

I myself didnt saw one single bigger negativity about Switch that could effect sales, everything was good and actually totally opposite to Wii U, Switch is so much similar to Wii, great concept, great launch games, and great branding and marketing, only difference is that Wii had very affordable price point, but luckily Switch doesn't have high price point either.