How can a company be this out of touch...

[Kyuu]

160rmf said:

Kyuu said:

And is it just me or are you quoting Proxy-Pie? (the OP) Are you just insisting that he's secretly a big bad Nintendo hater or something?...

My bad, I mixed up. I was thinking about this thread

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/221724/nintendo-is-committing-a-lot-of-the-same-lethal-mistakes-they-did-with-the-wiiu-and-more/1/

Bananaking was a Playstation guy but generally a decent and respected fellow.

The main reason Nintendo gets more doom and gloom posts is because they were inconsistent in home consoles sales (more like consistently bad and declining since Playstation launched, barring the Wii anomaly). If core fans expect doom, it shouldn't surprise anyone that similar or worse sentiments exist outside the fanbase.

With that being said, expecting the Switch to sell like Wii U was a hilariously poor prediction, because the Switch was also a handheld. Nintendo's handhelds are consistent high sellers. People were hyperfocused on Switch's home console side (because the 3DS was still being supported). They almost forgot that it was also a handheld. I guess the logic was that $300 was too much for a handheld and also too much for an underpowered home console. But even if that were true and everyone kept supporting 3DS and potentially a seperate successor, sub 50 million for Switch sounded foolish to me.