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burninmylight on 25 February 2024
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Norion said:

Cause the sooner something comes out the sooner manufacturing begins for it. If it comes out in November it'll obviously have a higher install base by April compared to it coming out March next year and unless there's major stock issues it'll sell better November-December compared to its first months being March-April due to things like Christmas demand. I didn't expect I'd have to explain something this basic but there ya go.

For the rest of your reply you seem strangely incapable of understanding the difference between me saying how I feel about the Switch 2 launching early next year instead of late this year and me bringing up a hypothetical to illustrate a point in response to someone saying Spring is a better launch window.

So it's taken you at least half a dozen replies to clarify that, and only after I pretty much said it for you, then Rol expounded on it.

You seem strangely incapable of expressing how you feel about the Switch 2 launching early next year instead of late next year unless someone else does your work for you.

Shtinamin_ said:
burninmylight said:
burninmylight said:

I could see you possibly having a point if you were saying that if the Switch released a few months earlier, then the insane demand for it would have been apparent sooner and Nintendo would have kicked production into overdrive much earlier or something, but I don't get the impression that's the point you're making.

I think the richest company in Japan will be all right and I trust that it knows what it's doing.

Read the entire post before commenting, just like your mother and I taught you.

Ngl this post of yours didn’t add to the discussion and I’m disappointed in you.

There is no doubt, if the Switch launched in Nov 2016 then the Switch would be ahead by 4-6M units. So personally I feel like this particular discussion has been resolved.

I’m wondering if Mexico and South America will start to purchase more Switch units in the next 2 years. Does anyone else think they will be part of the last sale pushers? Or will they continue to be “irrelevant”?

Because there's nothing to add. Read the bolded part. If that's what Shtnamin meant, then all that was needed from that point was, "Yeah, that's what I'm saying." Discussion over. I literally addressed it already, so why wouldn't they just say it either from the get-go or after I brought it up? After taking so many days/posts to finally write his/her/their name on someone else's paper, I'm not convinced that's what was meant.

But since we're on the subject of disappointment, don't get me started on your anti-GTA garbage.

RolStoppable said:
burninmylight said:
burninmylight said:

I could see you possibly having a point if you were saying that if the Switch released a few months earlier, then the insane demand for it would have been apparent sooner and Nintendo would have kicked production into overdrive much earlier or something, but I don't get the impression that's the point you're making.

I think the richest company in Japan will be all right and I trust that it knows what it's doing.

Read the entire post before commenting, just like your mother and I taught you.

At some point you'll have to admit to yourself that you dug too deep into this and can't win anymore.

At some point you'll have to admit that I brought this up already, and only now are you all acting like that was the point all along. I've been on this site long enough to know when I'm being gaslighted by the biggest troll here.

To all three of you, Shtinamin_ keeps saying repeatedly that its better to release a console during the holiday season, not "If Nintendo would have launched the Switch the holiday season before that March, the lifetime numbers would be higher." There is a clear difference between these statements. The former I don't agree with, the latter I wouldn't even argue. All I needed was for one or the other to be clarified, but instead of that, we got a doubling down on the former.

Read the bolded parts. I am talking about a hypothetical to show why towards the end of a year is the best time to launch a new console.

A 3-4 month delay to presumably get software ready wouldn't be that big a deal but would still be a blunder from Nintendo cause holiday 2024 is the perfect time to make that quarter be big instead of weak so ideally launch software would be ready by then.

I think it releasing late this year would be better than them waiting a few extra months and releasing early next year so they can take advantage of the holiday season and have a strong quarter then instead of a weak one.

You're taking a hypothetical far too seriously. If Nintendo had enough software and Switch stock ready by late 2016 it launching then instead of early March would've been better. That didn't turn out to be feasible for them but it would've been better if it did. This seems like a clear fact so I'm not sure what you're arguing against exactly.

OK, we got something here. But by this point, we are so far down the rabbit hole that it got lost in the sauce. We got hypotheses, we got pie-in-the-sky hindsight scenarios, we got talk of fiscal quarters for investors, and we got takes on what when the Switch 2 should launch. None of that has anything to do with how the Switch launching in 2016 would have sold "faster". I put faster in bold because I took it to mean how quickly the available stock would sell, not how soon it hits the market.

So no, I'm not buying this revisionist history is that Switch releasing in 2016 was the point all along.

Last edited by burninmylight - on 25 February 2024