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curl-6 on 09 February 2021
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Dante9 said:
Dahum said:

I applaud Nintendo and the Switch for its runaway success.

I hope it goes past the PS2 since that will means that console gaming is thriving and expanding and i’m all here for it.

COVID-19 coupled with the perfectly timed release of Animal Crossing was a lightning in a bottle moment and it made almost everyone around the globe either interested or at least aware of console gaming because of quarantine.

I wonder how much of this is just that, a lightning in a bottle. Like the Wii. When the pandemic eventually recedes, will these people keep buying games or will they return to their former activities and leave the Switch gathering dust?

Why on Earth would Switch players stop buying games when the pandemic ends? They were already buying games in massive quantities before there was a plague.

If anything's a lightning in a bottle situation it's the perfect storm of bad circumstances and choices that led to the Wii U's failure. That was a one-off event, not a repeated pattern.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 09 February 2021