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curl-6 on 15 June 2018
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Miyamotoo said:
curl-6 said:

Fortnite's already available on every other device under the sun including on the go with tablets though, so there's no real reason for people to run out en masse and get a Switch for it. Last year during this period Switch had Splatoon 2 in July and Mario Odyssey in October, which gave the system big boosts. This year it won't get anything of that caliber until November. 

Yeah, but Switch offers totally normal controls and its first huge free to play game alongside Paladins on Switch, and game is huge in any case so definitely will have some impact on Switch sales. Last year Switch also had huge stock problems in this time period so boost was limited, Mario Odyssey was in October while this year we have Pokemon in November (so we talking only about one month difrence) and Smash Bros in December, so we definatly talking about much stonger Q4 for Switch compared to last year.

So like I wrote, you relly dont need killer up to keep momentum and to have stronger sales than last year, lineup that I mentione is quite good and enugh to keep momentum and to actualy have stronger sales than Switch had in same time period last year, especially because in that period Switch had stock problems. Of Course when Pokemon arrives sales will skyrocket from November.

Most kids/casuals are fine with the tablet version though, and most more serious gamers will play it on PC/PS4/Xbox instead.

And I don't buy that lasting the next 5 months without system selling software won't affect Switch's momentum. To keep new customers buying your system you need to offer them a reason to buy, whether it be killer app software, a redesign, a price cut, etc. None of that is likely to happen in the next 5 months.