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GOWTLOZ on 19 January 2018
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160rmf said:
GOWTLOZ said:

Switch launched at a lower price, $300 to $400. That also says it has less room for price cuts, which is why it wouldn't have good sales at the end of its lifespan like the PS4. Nintendo also brought their biggest AAA guns to Switch already in its first year, unlike the PS4 which only got a bunch of cross generation games and less successful titles in its first year.

Funny that now we're seeing these kind of statements from people with a heavy anti Nintendo bias. So you think that PS4 first year sales were possible only by pure hype?

 

Also, this "Nintendo already brought their biggest guns for Switch" is some kind of mantra? It's just tiresome how people repeat this over and over.

Yes in part it was hype for bigger future games but then those smaller games like Infamous Second Son and cross gen games like Far Cry 4 were also well recieved so that helped.

I would argue that all platforms sell in part because of hype. XB1 has the reputation of not having any exclusives when it got two well recieved exclusives not on PC in 2014 but because its not getting any exclusive games in the future there is no hype and its not selling well. That's not all of it, like I'd say Bloodborne and Horizon Zero Dawn will still be selling PS4's for a long time but there aren't many such exclusives on any console. I've got no anti Nintendo bias but when fans put a cover on one eye they can't see the full picture. PS consoles have long tail sales while Nintendo consoles don't. That's a fact. I just gave a reason for that, Sony takes time in bringing all its major guns to a new platform while Nintendo does it quickly by abandoning the old platform years before a new one releases.