Before The Switch Launched, What was your sales prediction for the Switch?

[Stuart23]

heavenmercenary01 said:

They have already started screwing things up, and making bad decisions.

No matter what happens, i am still amazed at how much egocentric and arrogant Nintendo can be, not even trying to learn from previous generations' mistakes and continuing the same path of making pretty few years support on a system and then totally ignoring it, despite knowing that they'll be the only one supporting their consoles due to the fact that they tend to lower in terms of specs of their hardware, become out of phase compared to their generation and then have no(weak) third party support at the end. 

I have no clue about what's happening at Nintendo, but as a first party they have been the laziest this year, and we are talking about the third/fourth year of the switch which is really early to drop a successful system like that. 

personally, i predict that they'll continue giving us what we supposedly like since everything is selling extremely well. years full of ports and remakes with one big entry every one or two years. Anyway, what has been left to port from the wiiU? XCX? they'll port it, and then they'll port the Wii games but this time with even more lazyness since they had the balls to sell us games internally emulated on switch from previous generations without dropping a sweat, so we might look forward to those kind of surprises in the future. we'll get obviously the remasters (Deluxe) of the remakes of both zeldas' on the WiiU and they'll call it fair for the 35 anniversary since shit already strated and had huge success with mario.
besides that,Useless it is to expect any third party support starting seconf half of 2021 since they'll all merge to the next gen and developping for the switch would compell them to have one or several teams dedicated to that which is not profitable.

So yeah, to summ it up, bad decisions are already being made, and have always been made by Nintendo, and since they tend to not learn from previous failures, they'll continue making them.

 

To be completely honest, I wouldn't read it too much on this year's schedule from Nintendo. It is pretty obvious the pandemic affected them negatively, otherwise would make no sense why they waited to almost the end of the year to announce the Mario anniversary and on the exact same special broadcast announced that one of the titles would be released next year after the celebration is over. Also according to rumors, Pikmin 3 Deluxe and Mario 3D All-Stars were supposed to be released around the middle of the year, if these easy-to-port titles took so long to be out it is clear that something went wrong.

On the other hand, it would make sense for Nintendo to let Animal Crossing carry the 2020 and Age of Calamity carry the holiday to hold the more strong games for after the PS5 and the Series X released,so they could make their console look more competitive against the other consoles, and it would match Furukawa's speach about giving the Switch a longer livespan. But of course, that is just me assuming.

Last edited by Stuart23 - on 27 October 2020