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Intrinsic on 15 December 2018
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zorg1000 said:
Intrinsic said:

I am talking about globally not just north america. And your wiki article will tell you that the switch has 1200 game because its cuntin physical and digital ames. VGC tracks only physical games. 

But if VGC isn't enough for you.... you can use this https://www.imore.com/nintendo-switch-games

Its accurate up to dec 18th 2018.

I don't know how to say this to you bro but the NS has lass than 150 physical games. If it will make you feel better the 5 year old PS4 has around 1000 physical games.


You need better sources, I'm using Nintendo's official IR page

Wii had 1200

DS had 1800

Switch has 234 as of Sept 30 (likely over 300 by end of this quarter)

 

And ignoring digital releases in a growingly digital world is not looking at the full picture.

And your insistence on the numbers is just coming off like you are ignoring the main points.

Let me be clear.

The most successful consoles had the highest amount of games supporting them.

And if you look at all the nintendo platforms (or any platform for that matter) its easy to see a correlation between number of games and number of consoles sold. If you want t dispute anything thats what you should focus on.

And again..... I am "ignoring" digital releases because they are not sale drivers. How I know this? Because you don't see commercials of them on TV nor are they marketed in stores. They sell t preexisting user bases. I would think this is obvious.

The simple fact of it is that there is one thing that drive the sales of any hardware.

Novelty. Novelty of the games and novelty of the hardware.

In the case of the former the games keep a steady flow of novelty into the platform' giving consumers new things t play every so often. In the case of the latter, the platform itself is the novelty. But basing the success of a platform on that alone is like trying to catch lightning in a bottle and nintendo already pulled that off with the Wii.

The point here is that unless nintendo is going to ride that hybrid train to 80M and beyond (novelty of the platform) it needs a steady influx of must have titles (novelty of the games) to make it.