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Switch will be ok?

Switch will win May NPD 227 54.57%
 
Nintendo will drop Switch 30 7.21%
 
Wii U shall rise and take the throne 79 18.99%
 
See results 80 19.23%
 
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Soundwave said:

March 14-April 27 is the dry period, May is not.

Mario Kart is a long tail seller, thinking it's impact will only be for 3 days of April is stupid, it's going to sell well through May and probably acually mainly impact May. So that may as well be a May title.

Minecraft is a pretty big IP. Street Fighter taps into a good demographic for the Switch IMO because I think a lot of Switch owners are older and value this franchise from growing up with it, so that's good. Bomberman did well on Switch, Street Fighter may do better.

I'd say May/June/July are all very solid for Switch.

March 14-April 26 was the period it had to get through without a lot of new software, that 6 week gap or so. But it looks like it's done that just fine. We're sitting at April 15 and it still basically sells out as soon as any new stock hits shelves.

Within 35 days ... Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Minecraft, Ultra Street Fighter II, NBA Playgrounds .... that's not a bad 35 days for the Switch at all. 

May also has Tumbleseed & Disgaea 5, neither are major releases but those combined with the ganes you listed give Switch a prrtty decent May lineup and they are all in different genres.



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zorg1000 said:
Soundwave said:

March 14-April 27 is the dry period, May is not.

Mario Kart is a long tail seller, thinking it's impact will only be for 3 days of April is stupid, it's going to sell well through May and probably acually mainly impact May. So that may as well be a May title.

Minecraft is a pretty big IP. Street Fighter taps into a good demographic for the Switch IMO because I think a lot of Switch owners are older and value this franchise from growing up with it, so that's good. Bomberman did well on Switch, Street Fighter may do better.

I'd say May/June/July are all very solid for Switch.

March 14-April 26 was the period it had to get through without a lot of new software, that 6 week gap or so. But it looks like it's done that just fine. We're sitting at April 15 and it still basically sells out as soon as any new stock hits shelves.

Within 35 days ... Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Minecraft, Ultra Street Fighter II, NBA Playgrounds .... that's not a bad 35 days for the Switch at all. 

May also has Tumbleseed & Disgaea 5, neither are major releases but those combined with the ganes you listed give Switch a prrtty decent May lineup and they are all in different genres.

I'd say maybe June is a bigger question mark than May, just because it's hard to really know whether ARMS will take off or not being a new IP and all. It has potential to go either way, you can never really say for sure, but it looks like fun. 

July is a slam dunk for Nintendo though, Splatoon especially in Japan is going to kill it. 



You would be surprised how much streaming and hype will be formed behind Mario Kart once it drops. It should hold people over for the month. It should hold people over until the next big game drops. You also must remember that the switch just launched so a lot of people will still be buying and playing Zelda: BOTW. They dont have to rush out of the gate just yet. Their first party offerings will come.



Soundwave said:
zorg1000 said:

May also has Tumbleseed & Disgaea 5, neither are major releases but those combined with the ganes you listed give Switch a prrtty decent May lineup and they are all in different genres.

I'd say maybe June is a bigger question mark than May, just because it's hard to really know whether ARMS will take off or not being a new IP and all. It has potential to go either way, you can never really say for sure, but it looks like fun. 

July is a slam dunk for Nintendo though, Splatoon especially in Japan is going to kill it. 

true, im leaning towards ARMS doing pretty well though, it fits in well with their other multiplayer games like Mario Kart, Smash Bros & Splatoon plus it will have a strong marketing campaign considering that its already regularly featured in their TV ads.



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curl-6 said:

A 3 year old port isn't going to be a strong system seller, and ARMS is unproven, so Switch sales could slump considerably in May-June, though hopefully not so badly that Splatoon 2 can't kick-start it again in July.

Your wrong on that part. Looking at japan pre orders for mk8 and everywhere else, i argue mk8d will be a bigger system seller than zelda overall



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Jeez



Yerm said:

3. Minecraft is huge, and for the first time ever, a true version of Minecraft will become fully portable. not like Minecraft PE where you have slow touch controls, but a full-on console version of Minecraft.

As someone who works at both a high school and more than one teens/young adults support group, I can assure you that while gamers like us may scoff at the "slow touch controls" of tablet Minecraft, it's more than satisfactory for the more casual/mainstream players in the 10-25 demographic. I see a huge amount of young people playing the existing portable version with no issues, so I don't think the Switch version will be a gamechanger, as most of those who have an interest in playing the game on the go already have access to a portable version that's good enough for them.

 

Miyamotoo said:

Did you actually read what I wrote?

 Like I wrote, for all people who didnt had Wii U, this is brand new and offcourse great, strong game, and Nintendo will definatly push this game hard.

It's not "brand new" though. Whether you played it before or not doesn't change the fact that it's been available for three years now. I'm sure there are a few people who didn't get it on Wii U but plan to on Switch, but as an old port it isn't generating that "new game buzz" that drives hardware sales surges.



curl-6 said:
Miyamotoo said:

Did you actually read what I wrote?

 Like I wrote, for all people who didnt had Wii U, this is brand new and offcourse great, strong game, and Nintendo will definatly push this game hard.

It's not "brand new" though. Whether you played it before or not doesn't change the fact that it's been available for three years now. I'm sure there are a few people who didn't get it on Wii U but plan to on Switch, but as an old port it isn't generating that "new game buzz" that drives hardware sales surges.

it seems like you are taking your personal opinion of the game and assuming tge majority of people feel the same way.



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zorg1000 said:
curl-6 said:

It's not "brand new" though. Whether you played it before or not doesn't change the fact that it's been available for three years now. I'm sure there are a few people who didn't get it on Wii U but plan to on Switch, but as an old port it isn't generating that "new game buzz" that drives hardware sales surges.

it seems like you are taking your personal opinion of the game and assuming tge majority of people feel the same way.

That the game is a three year old port and not a new game is a fact, not an opinion.



Only Street Fighter and Minecraft???

Yeah only.

Only the biggest non-Nintendo fighting game and the biggest non-Nintendo open world game. The modern day game industry is getting the shit kicked out of it by 30 year old games and one-man indie devs, lol.



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