Louie said:
Yeah, I think it has to be said that a certain subset of the "core gamer fanbase" is and has always been exceedingly negative towards Nintendo. I know there is negativity towards Playstation and Xbox, too. But with Nintendo, certain people always predict nothing less than their total downfall. I was there when the Wii was revealed, this has been going back at least 20 years. Actually, it's been going on since the Gameboy days, when handheld sales "didn't count". What's especially crazy is the moving of the goal posts whenever Nintendo is successful: "Handheld sales (and Pokémon being a worldwide phenomenon) don't count, thus Nintendo is trailing behind Sony / MS!" (GB, GBA, early DS days)
"This will be Nintendo's last console!" (Wii, Switch)
"The success doesn't count because it's just a gimmick / Only casual gamers buy this, therefore it doesn't count." (Wii, DS)
"Current sales are meaningless, sales will fall off a cliff / are already declining" (Switch, Switch 2)
"The success doesn't count because third party games don't sell on Nintendo consoles" (Wii, DS, early Switch days)
"The market leader is the one with the highest profit / revenue, not the one with the highest sales." (*) (Switch, Switch 2)
"My stationary home console has more power than this handheld, so the Switch 2 just sucks and is a last generation console." (**) (*typed on a MacBook Pro, a machine sold by the undisputable market leader in the personal computer business, Apple Inc.)
(** Guess your bodybuilder dad is a newer generation than you, because generations aren't measured in time but in power. Basically, if he has more muscles than you, then you are his daddy) It's annoying, because it's a never-ending circular logic. And it's also a double standard: People do not constantly predict the downfall of Sony (which would also be ridiculous), for example, even though Sony's more recent console could never get near PS2 sales, the PSP was beaten by the DS, the Vita flopped and the PS3 lost them billions. It's just tiring at this point. Right now, the Switch 2 is literally the fastest selling console ever, and we still have many people downplaying it. |
