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Lonely_Dolphin on 12 March 2018
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DélioPT said: 

I'm not saying Switch wasn't a plan. I'm saying that this level of success was not what was expected. Even Nintendo admitted that it didn't expect such a success.
So, yeah, things turned out to be way better than expected.

"be it 200k a week or 2m"
What is the basis for this accusation?
I said that my concerns were based on Nintendo's scheduling. 
With that in mind, i'm looking at how they planned things even before the console came out. So i'll say it again: they didn't plan well.

If you factor in sales, that plan proved to be short lived: a success in 2017, but, so far, bad for 2018.

Actually, if we look at Nintendo's expectations for the console, even there we can see that the plan was not correctly balanced.

My concern is that they could be doing more and they aren't; they could enter 2019 with a way better library and they, from the likes of it, aren't.
And when they pretty much streamlined their SW production, that's a big mistep.

I claimed smaller games have zero effect on sales? Either i didn't explained correctly or you misunderstood me.
To me, smaller games don't sell HW, but that doesn't mean they don't help in creating a library for the console and make it more or less attractive. That is pretty much implied.

But if system sellers can only carry you so far, the same goes for smaller games.
If you look at how many games PS4 has vs Xbox One, by numbers alone you won't find a reason for the difference in HW sales.
A good, diverse library is good, but you need something more if you want to win a marathon and not just the race.

Your first paragraph has nothing to do with anything, unless you're trying to say that because they underestimated themselves their resulting sales don't matter or something nonsensical like that. The basis for my accusation is what you said: "My point is that Switch could have done better, could be doing doing even better if..." and just now: "My concern is that they could be doing more and they aren't." Again pointless because you can always say that no matter how well Nintendo sells or how much Nintendo does, like you are right now despite them selling very well by any standard which proves they're doing enough and planned very well.

"So far bad for 2018," so you seriously think 200k a week is bad!? Like Zorg explained it's safe to assume it's been doing 200k a week up until now, and obviously it's not going to go down now that the consistent stream of games is starting up again, so very safe to assume 2018 will be well up YoY.

Smaller games aren't system sellers but do make a system more appealing, that's pretty contradictory. Plus you clearly don't believe yourself about increasing appeal as otherwise we wouldn't be having this conversation and instead you'd recognize that the sheer number and quality of smaller titles are plenty enough to maintain/increase sales momentum.