RolStoppable said:
You continue to be shocked because you refuse to acknowledge how little of the alleged controversies has actually been real. I clicked on only one negative video on YouTube and since then my recommendations show at least a couple of stupid takes on Switch 2 on a regular basis. The internet is certainly desperate to make people believe that there's something seriously wrong with Nintendo and Switch 2. In some ways it's reminiscent of Switch 1's launch where the internet had decided that the launch window lineup is weak; Breath of the Wild and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe went on to combine for more than 100 million copies sold. Neither one of these two games was an actual exclusive, but Switch 2's two early heavy-hitters are. How fake the controversies around Switch 2 were was demonstrated every time it came to making sales predictions. People acted like Nintendo had a flop on their hands, but at the same time they were shitting their pants to predict under 100 million units sold lifetime. |
I mean, the controversies have been real allright, all of the topics have been proven and have caused a lot of bad blood between the fans and Nintendo. The controversies having a much smaller impact than I expected is another thing altogether. And while they haven't impacted Nintendo's bottom line directly, they are indeed affecting the Switch 2 in other ways (the key cards are making physical 3rd party sales way worse than they'd had been, for example). I'm not saying I expected the Switch 2 to flop, but to sell even more than the original despite all these new problems is something I didn't expect.
