November NPD 2018 Thread

[flashfire926]

Intrinsic said:

flashfire926 said:

Doesnt matter. Still gonna reach 80 million without a doubt. I'll bet on it. Its tracking ahead of the 3DS by a good margin, and will never fall behind it, so it get to 80M off that alone.

Yes motion control is what sold the wii. However it was pushed by nintendo's games itself. Wii Sports, Wii Fit, Mariokart, Smash Brawl, Galaxy, etc. Wii Sports and Fit in particular, the wii wouldnt have been such a success without them.

Wii U was horribly botched with bad marketing and a confusing name that made it seem like some tablet add-on. It didnt help the casual market migrated to mobile, either.

The difference with the Switch is that we're seeing a unified first party that when are combined, can absolutely do 80 million without a doubt. Keep in mind this is the first home console with mainline pokemon on it, something that will sell north of 15 million copies (we just saw a taste of whats to come with lets go). 

First I will like to thank you for speaking objectively. This is a very touchy subject to most people. 

With the Wii.... yes nintendo made games for it. As they d fr all their platforms. But it sold primarily for motion controls. And primarily to the casual crowd. And alt of companies not just nintendo tried to partake of that crowd.

A troubling thing however is if you look at the overall game output of nintendo platforms. This ca usually be tied directly to how successful they were. eg...

DS had 4000 games. 3DS had 1700.

Wii had  2800 games. WiiU had 367.

To put it into perspective every console that has old upwards of 80M has had more than 1000 games made for it. With the best consoles havin as much as 2500+ games made for it.

This is the basis of my argument as to why i say the NS cannot do this on the back of nintendo software alone. Right now the NS is at round 100 games.

I'm sorry (not trying to be mean or anything), but your argument seems quite flimsy to me...

First off, I never got the comparison between systems done by "number of games". It doesnt mean jack shit to me, due to 80% of those games being shovelware/no-name indie games only like 40 people will ever play. With the Wii especially, that ratio was even higher.

What matters is quality games. And Switch has a lot of them:

This chart shows that, when launches aligned, Switch is wildly outpacing Wii and Wii U when it comes to 80+ metacritic games.

That being said, lets use the metric you prefer:

As we see, if we look at total number of games, Switch is outpacing PS4 and Xbox One. 

http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2018/02/06/switch-has-three-times-as-many-games-as-wii-u-did-at-this-point-and-theyre-better

This is as of February 2018 keep in mind, but we know that there are more and more titles releasing each month so this lead most likely stands.