November NPD 2018 Thread

[DonFerrari]

Intrinsic said:

peachbuggy said:

Believe me, Nintendo's IP's have very dedicated, different (and vocal) individual fanbases. You may think it won't make much of a difference but i beg to differ. Plus, there are "new" players joining a consoles' infrastructure all the time, at times making these fanbases bigger. It's also already been addressed here before but so far Nintendo have only really gone after the HC crowd with their strategy/price point. Next year i believe, with Animal Crossing and Pokemon (HH orientated titles), they will begin to go after the HH crowd. So, probably expect a price cut to get nearer mass market HH price point. Then from that time onwards their dream of having multiple owners per household will become more of a possibility, whilst all the while the userbase will be growing to 50m+. So, all in all i don't see Switch market penetration becoming a problem at all at 40m+ userbase.

Let me try and prove my point.

According to nintendo like 22.8M NS has been sold.

Their top selling games are.....

 

1.  SMO - 12.1M
2. MK8 - 11.7M
3. LZBoTW - 10.2M
4. Splatoon2 - 7.4M
5. 1-2S, MTA, Arms, Kirby - all did around 2M

You still don't think there is a lot of overlapping? Especially when you consider that all those game there made almost 75% f their sales before the NS was even 1yr old. I don't even think Any PS4 game (outside COD) managed 10M sold before the console was even 2 years old.

 

Sure are there some dedicated fanbase among the regular fanbase, those guys that play thousand hour pokemon or the like. But it's almost unconceivable to think Someone will buy Switch or another Nintendo HW and not buy one Zelda, One Mario, One Smash, One Mario Kart and One Pokemon (as available) for that console.