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Miyamotoo on 20 November 2018
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Megiddo said:
Kai_Mao said:

Last year, while the Switch has Mario Odyssey in October, it had nothing else noteworthy until Xenoblade 2 in December, and that game, while great, was not gonna sell consoles like Mario or Zelda or Pokemon.

Last year  was the first time during the holidays to buy a Switch for Zelda BOTW, MK8D, Splatoon 2, and SMO.  It had 4 dynamite games to sell last year for those wanting a Christmas gift. Switch had the perfect first year lineup, whereas the second year basically comes down to Pokemon and Smash.

People are seriously, seriously selling last year's lineup short and/or are vastly overestimating this year's lineup.

First, If all those game were launch during Holiday season you would have point, from those game only Odyssey launched at end of October. Its not same when you have big/strong games already available and when big/strong games is launching, and Pokemon Lets Go and Smash Bros are system seller games in any case.  Also its not like that all those games from last year dont exist this year, those game will keep driving sales this year also but with huge boost from Pokemon and Smash Bros, but also this holiday season Switch has games like Fortnite, Mario Party, Diablo3...that will also help.

People talking about clear facts that from some reson you keep ignoring, last year in November and December Switch had only Xenoblade 2 whithout any bundle or deal, this year they have Pokemon Lets Go launch, Switch Pokemon bundles, Black Friday deal for $300 with one of most popular Switch game, Smash Bros launch and Switch Smash Bros bundles, if you realy think that will not change anuthing compared to last years sells, I dont know what to tell you. Also you completely ignoring point that Benji already said that Switch sales are very strong and much better than in same period of last year.

 

gtjay1982 said:
Miyamotoo said:

Or far more logical, Switch Black Friday stock is smaller than PS4 Black Friday stock. Benji or someone else reported that stock for Switch Black Friday bundles is OK but deffintly smaller than PS4.

I don't get what's more logical about your post.  The BF stock isn't magically lower.  Retailers and Nintendo ship according to anticipated demand. Also this difference is after PS4 has been on sale since Sunday.  

Actually its logical, BF deal stocks are limited, they are not unlimited, Nintendo cant ship more than they prepared MK8D bundles for Black Friday.

Last edited by Miyamotoo - on 20 November 2018