The_Yoda said:
Ck1x said:
Well I hope he doesn't have any type of grave working, since he's still alive...
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I should have said VGChartz grave .... also might have helped had i remembered it was QuickRick I was talking about.
curl-6 said:
And frequently active on VGChartz still.
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My bad it was Quick Rick I was thinking of that was sure the switch sales were going to "fall off a cliff" early on in it's life cycle.
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Yeah I was referring to ol' Quickrick as well, he's returned several times since his permaban in the form of various alts.
NightlyPoe said:
Soundwave said:
Switch is a success, the bigger concern for Nintendo now needs to be Switch 2, not arbitrary number totals. If they get to 110 or 120 million is not that important.
What's more important is that Nintendo has not really been able to follow up a hugely successful console without losing a noticeable amount of momentum the next time around.
NES to SNES went from 63 million down to 49 million and basically halved Nintendo's marketshare in North America and Europe to Sega and that began a consistent pattern of successive consoles selling even less from that point on (N64 then GameCube).
DS to 3DS was a disaster overall in that they lost half their sales, from 150 million down to 75 million or so.
Wii to Wii U was a complete bomb obviously.
The risk you take in leaving a product line to age too long on the market is the brand loses its excitement and luster and suddenly the market can turn on you quickly, waiting until 2024 would be a huge, huge mistake. If you had Sony like 3rd party support, that's one thing, but Nintendo doesn't have that, they have their core IP but they can't just re-use those over and over again expecting the same hardware bump. |
Weird post. It ignores that Nintendo have had fantastic-selling handhelds both after waiting a dozen years (Gameboy -> GBA) and after prematurely pulling the plug on a sales juggernaut after only 3 years (GBA -> DS).
Fact is, Nintendo is going to Nintendo. They'll move on from the Switch when they think they've got something better to replace it. Until then, Nintendo's sitting pretty and can absorb the revenue of a broad user-base that will be growing by 15-20+ million a year for at least the next 3 years.
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One narrative Soundwave believes in very strongly is the notion that Nintendo cannot or should not have a long lived system. He wants iterative smartphone-like upgrades to the Switch every two years.
