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Lonely_Dolphin on 26 October 2016
Lawlight said:
Einsam_Delphin said:

You would choose to think negatively of any situation involving Nintendo, but I guess there is nothing really wrong with that. Though as others have already said, I think it's far more likely that they're avoiding having to compete with the holiday buzz and advertising when they have all the time and attention to themselves. Surely you can agree that this makes a lot of sense.

Sure that makes but there's no reason not to release information now in October. It's less than 6 months (closer to 5 months) until the NX's release. Why no games lineup reveal? Then they'll have to do PR and marketing for the hardware and the dozen or so games to be released in less than 2 months. The PS4 had 9 months from reveal to release.

Um they did release information now in October. Are you trying to pretend they didn't, is that why you're still calling it the NX?

2 months seems like plenty of time to me and Nintendo must think so aswell. Sony doing something else doesn't mean that's the only way to do it.



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VGPolyglot on 26 October 2016
Culipechi said:
onionberry said:

why are you so negative, serious question.

Sony blind fanboy detected since 1972.

I am not who you're referring to, but personally I am a generally pessimistic person and I am against overt praise for any of the big companies. I usually don't get involved as I don't want to get banned because if I didn't I would probably counter everyone that is too defensive of their company of choice.



Nuvendil on 26 October 2016
Einsam_Delphin said:
bunchanumbers said:

You gotta admit that it would minimize negative press. The only way it could do any better would be if they found a way to launch it that same day. And its not like console makers didn't do reveals to lower the impact of a rival. Sony did it to MS when they did their reveal. MS even sent workers to Best Buy to counter Wii U when they were doing their E3 at Best Buy event. Nintendo could have just as easily did this with Switch this holiday season. Instead they decided to wait. I'm thinking because they are not confident in their product.

How would it minimize negative press in any way? It's only the opposite since there's less time for people to forget or come to terms with the bad news.

This is a good point.  Imagine, if you will, if MS had launched the Xbox One two months after their disastrous unveiling.  Even if they had reversed their bad policies and the Xbone launched exactly as it later did, the launch would have been an absolute bloodbath vs the PS4 cause people would still be livid, they would have next to no time to spin anything, and no time to repair their brand or do damage control.  It would have been worse, not better.  Cause bad news spreads like wildfire and anger lingers short term and only really cools with time.  Announcing a good ways ahead of time is better for controlling negativity since you have a long while to spin and do damage control. 



bunchanumbers on 26 October 2016
Einsam_Delphin said:
bunchanumbers said:

You gotta admit that it would minimize negative press. The only way it could do any better would be if they found a way to launch it that same day. And its not like console makers didn't do reveals to lower the impact of a rival. Sony did it to MS when they did their reveal. MS even sent workers to Best Buy to counter Wii U when they were doing their E3 at Best Buy event. Nintendo could have just as easily did this with Switch this holiday season. Instead they decided to wait. I'm thinking because they are not confident in their product.

How would it minimize negative press in any way? It's only the opposite since there's less time for people to forget or come to terms with the bad news.

It would minimize negative press because there wouldn't be time for anti hype like there was with Xbox One. Its also why they didn't show Ps4 Pro until after E3. If it was shown along with Scorpio it would have been destroyed by anti hype. Same situation here.



onionberry on 26 October 2016
Culipechi said:
onionberry said:

why are you so negative, serious question.

Sony blind fanboy detected since 1972.

I don't think it's because he's a sony fan, you could be a fan without being negative towards other companies. Maybe he had a really really bad Nintendo experience :(



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bunchanumbers on 26 October 2016
onionberry said:

bunchanumbers said:
Nah. Couldn't care less. I don't know how they can try to hype up a Nintendo branded 720p tablet, but it will be interesting to see them try.

By then I'll more than likely be looking at getting a PS4 Pro.

lol you keep saying this on every thread but I think that you are going to buy the system day one.

Shh. Let me be mad. Knowing me I'll eventually buckle. But until then let me be mad.



onionberry on 26 October 2016
bunchanumbers said:
onionberry said:

lol you keep saying this on every thread but I think that you are going to buy the system day one.

Shh. Let me be mad. Knowing me I'll eventually buckle. But until then let me be mad.

^_^



Nuvendil on 26 October 2016
Einsam_Delphin said:
Lawlight said:

Sure that makes but there's no reason not to release information now in October. It's less than 6 months (closer to 5 months) until the NX's release. Why no games lineup reveal? Then they'll have to do PR and marketing for the hardware and the dozen or so games to be released in less than 2 months. The PS4 had 9 months from reveal to release.

Um they did release information now in October. Are you trying to pretend they didn't, is that why you're still calling it the NX?

2 months seems like plenty of time to me and Nintendo must think so aswell. Sony doing something else doesn't mean that's the only way to do it.

Well it wasn't much info, let's be fair.  Even though it did accomplish getting quite a good reception and has reserved Nintendo a bit of mindshare ahead of the main event. 

And even though I don't agree with the idea they are doing this to minimize negativity (as I just said, this is a bad plan for that), I won't defend the short span completely.  Yes it has advantages - namely that they can keep the hype at a fever pitch from announcement to launch if they play it right - but there are plenty of past precedents to show properly handled early announcements are very succesful, just look at the PS4 and Nintendo's own Wii.

My guess is this is more down to the games lineup situation, namely third and second parties.  With the Wii U, Nintendo went out on a limb in 2011 and early 2012, boasting of partnerships they actually didn't have locked down at all based on what we now know (evidence now suggests early 2011 was when they *started* negotiating those partnerships, which is mental).  And then that all backfired, perhaps the EA and Nintendo "unprecedented partnership" being the most famous implosion.  So I think it is entirely possible Nintendo wanted to make dead certain that they had these 3rd and 2nd parties as locked in as possible, not to mention having actual games from them to show running on the actual end product with actual release dates.  Wouldn't be the first time Nintendo over-compensated :P



Areym on 27 October 2016

Not jumping on any hype trains, I gotta keep my hype in check, my heart can only take so much.

That being said, I don't plan to buy a Switch but I do wanna know more about it so I look forward to this.



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ironmanDX on 27 October 2016

2 months or so after the full switch reveal to the launch. The hype will be fresh and occupy mind space of many. 2 million shipping in first wave. They'll be shortages which the media will pick up on. They're playing a different game than usual and I think it will work wonders.