How well do you think Nintendo is handling the transition from Switch 1 to 2?

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Darwinianevolution said:

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.

I did not mean that the controversies did not happen, I meant that there was hardly any substance to them. The push to $80 games (which is only Mario Kart World) isn't going to bother people when they can get the game for $50 in the USA and €40 in Europe if they go with the hardware bundle option; that's why so much of this particular controversy has been fake. The ToS about Nintendo bricking a console if it's used to pirate games isn't going to bother a lot of people either, because hardly anyone had the intent to pirate games. The only controversy with substance is the game-key card issue, but that one is restricted to third party games and does not affect the system-selling games, hence why people have no problem with spending money on a Switch 2 console and Nintendo games; the problem is limited to third parties who try to pull off bullshit and they are paying for it with low sales of their games, and that's how it should be.

If you analyze the controversies objectively, there's hardly anything that could cause bad blood between Nintendo and its fans. There was of course an effort being made to blame third party shenanigans on Nintendo instead of the respective third parties (a bandwagon you jumped on as well), but there has been zero evidence that Nintendo has mandated the usage of game-key cards.