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curl-6 said:
JackHandy said:

If it was just me, the toxicity wouldn't be all over the place. There wouldn't be five million threads about it. Youtube wouldn't be infested with one negative video after another. People in the comments of those videos wouldn't be acting like rabid animals. If the price of everything was the correct price, meaning what the market considered fair, you simply wouldn't hear about it outside of a few people, and you'd have to search for them, because they would be buried under a sea of optimism and excitement similar to the internet-wide vibe after the S1 was close to launch.

But that isn't happening, whether people want to acknowledge it or not. This is not a small little band of trolls. This is a real problem. And as a Nintendo fan, I am not happy about it. They are the company of my childhood. I want to see them do well. And what they've done so far... is not well.

That's not at all what it was like in the lead up to the Switch 1's launch; there was a ton of controversy online about it being the same price as a PS4 while being much less powerful, the games being $60 when people were used to paying $40 for "handheld" games, 1-2 Switch being "$60 shovelware" that should have been included for free, it's only big launch title being a Wii U game, very little third party support it, etc.

Then, when it came out, it turned out that none of that was a deal breaker for the general audience and the system sold like crack.

Just to substantiate your point, one could look at the comments on this article. Most are complaining about the price of the console and accessories, the lack of games, and predicting it would sell less than Wii U + 3DS.

https://www.vgchartz.com/article/267594/why-the-nintendo-switch-may-struggle-to-sell-well/

Heck the article's conclusion/prediction is 25 million sales.