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Forums - Nintendo - With all the information we have on the Switch, what´s your take on its market performance this year?

barneystinson69 on 13 January 2017
FloatingWaffles said:

The amazing thing about the Switch is that Nintendo should have enough games already developed or in development for it that they could have at least one big game (including ports) releasing every month for all of 2017.

For example, in any random order these games could release any month outside of confirmed dates:

March: Zelda (confirmed for launch)
April: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (confirmed for April)
May: Arms
June: Splatoon 2
July: Pikmin 4
August: Smash Bros. Switch Port
September: Super Mario RPG X Rabbids game
October: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (apparently coming out in 2017)
November: Pokemon Stars
December: Super Mario Odyssey

Also all the 3rd party games releasing or 3rd party exclusives we don't know about yet.

So the Switch should have an amazing first year with a new zelda, a new 3D mario, pokemon, and more all in it's first year.  All those games each month should keep the sales consistently good. 

So I think the Switch will sell very well for 2017. 

That considered good? Arms isn't even a launch title as well??? So that means the launch has 2 confirmed games?



Made a bet with LipeJJ and HylianYoshi that the XB1 will reach 30 million before Wii U reaches 15 million. Loser has to get avatar picked by winner for 6 months (or if I lose, either 6 months avatar control for both Lipe and Hylian, or my patrick avatar comes back forever).

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JRPGfan on 13 January 2017

I like the concept of the device....

I dislike how they designed it.
if its 299$ because of HD rumble/motion controlls, they wasted way to much money on it.

They could have done the same design and gotten rid of unnessary stuff and had a 199$ price point and been in a much better place with the console.



Jranation on 13 January 2017
JRPGfan said:

I like the concept of the device....

I dislike how they designed it.
if its 299$ because of HD rumble/motion controlls, they wasted way to much money on it.

They could have done the same design and gotten rid of unnessary stuff and had a 199$ price point and been in a much better place with the console.

Yeah. Im still iffy with that whole features on the joy cons. Im not sure if they cost lots of $$$ to implement...... hopefully we get to see more of it in a couple of minutes at the treehouse. 



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Nirvana_Nut85 on 13 January 2017
Volterra_90 said:
Nintendo screw it with the price imo. So I'd say about 6M this year.

With the current price and lack of games, I'd be suprised if it sells 3.5 mill.



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Volterra_90 on 13 January 2017
Nirvana_Nut85 said:
Volterra_90 said:
Nintendo screw it with the price imo. So I'd say about 6M this year.

With the current price and lack of games, I'd be suprised if it sells 3.5 mill.

I think it will be sucessful in Japan no matter what. But I think this thing had the potential to be a beast, not sure about it now because of Nintendo's skill to missmanage winning concepts. The only way to know is wait for it. I know for a fact that in my group of friends, we were thing nking on buying 3, and after the price announcement in Europe the count is zero. Obviously we're not the mass market, but I read lots of posts in FB and Twitter saying something similar. Yay to 250€' Nope to 330.



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vizigoth on 13 January 2017

If I get this it will be simply to start games at home and play when I'm away. I'd invest for the exclusives. I highly doubt I will take it to a random Park picnic table and expect someone to play Switch with me. I would invest in this for the waggle controls. Just to play my titles on the go. 



potato_hamster on 13 January 2017

I'm not sure why people are so convinced this is going to replaced the 3DS. Nintendo didn't announce one 3DS exclusive franchise for the Switch, and they reiterated that this is a home console, which many people said Nintendo was only doing to help prop up 3DS holiday sales.



bananaking21 on 13 January 2017

Dead on arrival everywhere outside of japan. specially in europe. in Japan i have no idea.



VAMatt on 13 January 2017

The price is just too high. As a Wii U owner, I see no reason to buy it at launch. I'll pick up Zelda for my current console. If I wait until the holiday season, it looks like there will be a Mario game I want, and nothing else. So, I don't know that I'll buy it then either.

I'll certainly get one eventually. But, I just can't see spending $300. By the time the first price drop comes, hopefully there will be enough desirable games for me to justify the purchase.



Asriel on 13 January 2017

Personally I expect it will perform similarly to the 3DS in 2011, though it will need a similar level price cut and Pokemon Stars to perform along those lines.