Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - 25th Sept. - 1st Oct 2017

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AngryLittleAlchemist said:

fatslob-:O said:

Don't we all ? I want to know the true demand for the Switch too but so far Nintendo has released a game every quarter of this year that will go on to sell 5M+ units in their lifetime ... 

Do you think or believe that its current software release pattern so far is supposed to be the norm for the Switch's entire life ? 

Oh don't get me wrong, of course we all want to know what the Switch's lifetime success will be after supply issues are figured out. But I can't stand it when people are waiting for something to happen, hopeful that it will have the outcome it wants them to have. It seems to me that Lawlight only wants to dismiss any supply constraints, or wants them to be over, just so he can critize sales. It's more like he's just waiting for confirmation bias rather than interesting data. 

Regarding your question, I feel it's kind of backwards logic. To think the Switch will lose momentum in 2018 because it doesn't have one game that will sell 5M+ lifetime is to say that the people buying games like Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, or Splatoon 2 all already have Switchs. In reality, the Switch could quite easily coast off those games for a couple of months into 2018. It's not like the Switch is going to stop at January and every Splatoon, Mario, Zelda, or Mario Kart fan will have a Switch. Unless you just expect the most insane attach rates of any console on a 10M install base.

I think there will probably be one or two big system sellers in 2018 with enough momentum to 2017 and enough semi-big releases to carry it throughout the year. To say if it will be a huge success or not? That's not my place, I simply don't know. Which again, is why i'm not rooting for confirmation bias. I'd prefer if the Switch sold well, but i'm not going to say it will. 

It's kind of unfair really ... Nintendo has only announced small projects for 2018 and they're all releasing in it's first 4 months ... so we can't have a real basis 

Kirby is slated for Q1 2018, then we have Yoshi and Fire Emblem later that year, plus certainly some yet unnanounced games. Nintendo generally doesn't announce games years in advance. BotW, Metroid Prime 4 and thenext Pokemon game are the big exeptions. They have still a lot of IPs to fill out any voids in the lineup for the upcoming years, and who knows what new stuff might be incoming from them.