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ironmanDX on 03 November 2016
Barkley said:
ironmanDX said:
No. Simply no way. It'll sell that in a year I'm hoping. . I mean.... 2 holiday seasons in it's first year....

I'm confused, what 2 holiday seasons?

Umm... Easter! Pfft.... Obviously....

 

I should really stop posting after 1 am....

 

 

 

 



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Swordmasterman on 03 November 2016

It is really hard to sell less than the Dreamcast in the same time 2 times in a row. The NX will be more successful than the Wii U.



Augen on 03 November 2016

We know...one game officially, correct? Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

Hard for me to estimate sales when no idea what their 2017 line up looks like.

Given the tech I can personally say most excited I've been about Nintendo since Game Boy Advance / Gamcube era.



ninjapirate42 on 03 November 2016

It's launching with BOTW. I can't imagine a world where this doesn't sell 10 million lifetime unless something is DRASTICALLY wrong with the system or price.



etking on 03 November 2016

I also see no market for it and the design is a waste of resources. Why have a mobile unit and display if you cannot use it when playing on TV? Why have such a weak ARM CPU that cannot play PS4-quality games. Why does it seem to be able to play Iphone and Android-quality games only and who wants that?

The only benefit is that it will likely allow Nintendo to port all own games to Android / IOS without much effort and allow 3rd parties to port their Android / IOS games over without much effort too (see Skyrim, my bet is that the unannounced Android / IOS version was shown).

But investors will be happy as soon as Nintendo announces IOS compatibility or portability.



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AZWification on 03 November 2016

This is sillier than John Lucas' WiiU prediction..



                
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tripenfall on 03 November 2016
Swordmasterman said:
It is really hard to sell less than the Dreamcast in the same time 2 times in a row. The NX will be more successful than the Wii U.

The Dreamcast sold a total of 8.2 million units in its lifetime according to VG Chartz. What are you talking about? 



curl-6 on 03 November 2016
ironmanDX said:
A unified Nintendo software catalogue on one platform.... 10 million...

For the unified library idea to come to fruitition, they'll need to kill 3DS once Switch launches, and I'm concerned they don't have the guts.



COKTOE on 03 November 2016
curl-6 said:
ironmanDX said:
A unified Nintendo software catalogue on one platform.... 10 million...

The unified catalogue idea may not come to fruition if they decide to keep supporting 3DS.

Maybe not full-on initially, but I think it's a given that it's going to happen.



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curl-6 on 03 November 2016
COKTOE said:
curl-6 said:

The unified catalogue idea may not come to fruition if they decide to keep supporting 3DS.

Maybe not full-on initially, but I think it's a given that it's going to happen.

Better sooner than later; Switch cannot afford to stumble out of the gate like Wii U did. Their future as a hardware manufacturer depends on Switch being a success, they need to throw everything they've got at it and kill the persistent droughts that have plagued them for the last 5 years. Once it releases, I hope for their sake they don't make any more major 3DS games.