padib said:
Yeah, Nintendo trolled us with that. But waaait, there's RFA! And there was Pokemon GO!
Nintendo had so many good ideas that they executed badly, you would have been right to be doubtful. Such subtle things bothered some of Nintendo's best ideas, that to guess Nintendo's success is a bit like looking into a crystal ball. Like the WiiU's failure was a stepping stone to the switch, and its features were just a tad unripe with a tethered tablet and confusion about multiple tablets and succession to the Wii, the 3D of the 3DS made it trip a bit. So the Switch could've failed, but it would have been very hard to make it fail with a unified library. I guess my prediction was based on a gut feel of Nintendo bouncing back and rectifying the mistakes it had admitted to have made (and Iwata taking a very noble salary cut) and a sense that to me, if the libraries were unified, it was basically unstoppable. To drive the point, while the unified library output is great on the switch, I expected a bit of a stronger punch. A lot of the big sellers are revamped WiiU games (MK8Deluxe, Smash Ultimate, NSMBU Deluxe) or end of life U games (Breath of the Wild), so I am expecting a bigger wave of true Switch games like Odyssey, Animal Crossing NH, Pokemon S/S, RFA, SPM Origami King, Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu!/Eevee!, Splatoon 2, Super Mario Party, Luigi's Mansion 3, Mario Maker 2 and the other top sellers. Still it's a very decent output so far only 3.5 years in, and the sales are fantastic. |
I actually thought Wii U would do really well and I got burned XD. Part of the reason I was so hesitant about the Switch.
I still maintain the Gamepad was a good idea. But... by the first E3 I was like "Oh... they have no idea what to actually do with that thing do they?" and saw the writing on the wall. I still think there's a lot more they could have done with that thing.
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Eh, normally necrobumping is a no-no, but I think with prediction topics it's ok. If you can't bump predictions, what's the point?
