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Slownenberg said:
haha people didn't buy less of those systems because it had the same brand name lol. NES had no competition, SNES had Genesis. GB was on the market forever while GBA was cut off early with the DS. Wii U was a poorly thought out successor to a fad that had passed. 3DS had a gimmick that people didn't really care about and which made it launch at way too high a price, and it sacrificed the power it could have used simply to do the 3D effect, plus it had to deal with the mobile game market blowing up. See how there are actual real reasons why those systems did worse than their predecessors, and it had nothing at all to do with the name. No matter what the next system is called, it is likely to do worse than the Switch because the Switch is insanely popular, launched with BotW, was the first system with the hybrid concept, and Animal Crossing became a cultural moment launching right as the pandemic was starting. Those are all unique and powerful things that led to its huge success, along with other things of course. Name is going to have nothing to do with the successor selling less than the Switch. Changing the name does absolutely nothing for Nintendo, while keeping the Switch name at least gives it the brand awareness of being the direct successor to pretty much the most popular system ever. You're trying hard, but just don't have anything to work with when attempting to argue that its gonna fail if it uses the Switch name haha. |
And you will say the same thing about the Switch 2. "Uh...the Switch 2 had 1 more button than the original Switch. Thats why it failed. People dont want more buttons." Its easy to say shit in hindsight.
The fact is that if the Switch is in the name it wont be the new thing to get anymore for many people. It will just be another Switch. I dont care if the controller for the Wii U was a shit smelling cactus, it should have still done way more than 14M. People were just sick of the Wii and the name Wii U didnt help.
