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Soundwave 12 hours ago
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zorg1000 said:
Chrkeller said:

Nope.  Made up nonsense.  After the Wii-U, everyone and their grandma thought Nintendo should go to simple nomenclature.  

Nope.  Mario Kart 8 sold 80,000,000, Odyssey sold 30,000,000, everyone thought MK made sense.  

Must be nice making up arguments and claiming victory against imaginary opponents.  Cheers mate.

*my theory is in primary school all the cool kids had Genesis and you have a weird chip on your shoulder about Nintendo as a result*

No, Soundwave is right that a lot of people on here were arguing about name/launch titles/price/specs. Things like

”Nintendo has never had a 2 for a system name.” (I personally thought Super Switch)

”Mario Kart is a game you buy when you already have the system, it’s not a system seller itself.”

”Anything over $400 is suicide.”

”Nintendo always releases weak hardware, it won’t be able to run PS5/XBSX ports.”

Yes, these were common arguments on this site. Just because he’s not willing to go through dozens of threads and hundreds of posts to prove doesn’t mean he’s wrong.

Now obviously this doesn’t mean everyone was making these arguments. A lot of people were also arguing in favor of 2/MK launch/$400+/powerful.

At this point the next person who says "Nintendo won't do XYZ because they haven't in the past", you might as well just put money down on the opposite option being true, you'd probably have a shit ton of money. That crowd still is completely clueless and almost everything that talk about ends up being wrong because they're too dense to understand the management team is completely different today from 10 years ago. They're stuck 10 years in the past, I think once in a while the wheels kind of turn in their head like "wait a second this is a little odd for Nintendo ..." but then they shrug it off and go right back to where they were before, lol. 

It's kind of funny. It's totally that Seymour Skinner meme in real life. 

"Nintendo can't possibly reveal in January and release the same year! It's against the rules!" was another classic that was talked to death here. 

Honestly leakers have been far more accurate on Switch 2 news/rumors/reports than the "Nintendo only does XYZ because remember what happened with Nintendo system from 15 years ago" crowd. You'd be far better off listening to leakers like Nate even if they get the odd thing wrong because at least they also get some things correct, whereas the "Nintendo expert who's still living in 2014" crowd gets virtually every single thing wrong. 

Last edited by Soundwave - 11 hours ago