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vivster on 21 June 2017
TruckOSaurus said:
vivster said:

Popularity is hardly the sign of a good product.

A regular Nintendo console would've sold just as well until now. Because it's a Nintendo console.

The Wii U begs to differ.

Wii U sold fine in the first months.



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vivster on 21 June 2017
RolStoppable said:
vivster said:

Wii U sold fine in the first months.

That's wrong. Even its launch holiday performance was offically called "not bad" by Iwata. That's basically the most positive way to state that something isn't good or fine.

Also, Switch has already passed Wii U's first year total by now.

Which proves my point. The next home console from Nintendo would've been better in all aspects than the Wii U, hence selling very well. It's not that it could get worse than the Wii U.



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TruckOSaurus on 21 June 2017
vivster said:
TruckOSaurus said:

The Wii U begs to differ.

Wii U sold fine in the first months.

Stolen from Green098's thread:


 Switch Wii U
1 1,401,322 472,099    +929,223
2 234,897 322,306 -87,409
3 236,774 534,322 -297,548
4 309,388 329,225 -11,837
5 278,457 321,542 -43,085
6 217,617   189,473 +28,144
7 200,227 118,511 +81,716
8 245,574 119,672   +125,902
9 364,625 46,234   +318,391
10   35,462    
11 31,692
12 34,444
13 34,138
14 36,247
15   33,110  

By the start of April, the Wii U was already in trouble and then from May onward it slipped into god awful territory.



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TruckOSaurus on 21 June 2017
vivster said:
RolStoppable said:

That's wrong. Even its launch holiday performance was offically called "not bad" by Iwata. That's basically the most positive way to state that something isn't good or fine.

Also, Switch has already passed Wii U's first year total by now.

Which proves my point. The next home console from Nintendo would've been better in all aspects than the Wii U, hence selling very well. It's not that it could get worse than the Wii U.



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vivster on 21 June 2017
TruckOSaurus said:
vivster said:

Wii U sold fine in the first months.

Stolen from Green098's thread:


 Switch Wii U
1 1,401,322 472,099    +929,223
2 234,897 322,306 -87,409
3 236,774 534,322 -297,548
4 309,388 329,225 -11,837
5 278,457 321,542 -43,085
6 217,617   189,473 +28,144
7 200,227 118,511 +81,716
8 245,574 119,672   +125,902
9 364,625 46,234   +318,391
10   35,462    
11 31,692
12 34,444
13 34,138
14 36,247
15   33,110  

By the start of April, the Wii U was already in trouble and then from May onward it slipped into god awful territory.

Seems I was a bit off on that one. My point still stands though. The Wii U was the worst home console Nintendo ever made, pretending that its successor would do just as terribly in a completely different environment isn't a fair point.



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vivster on 21 June 2017
RolStoppable said:
vivster said:

Which proves my point. The next home console from Nintendo would've been better in all aspects than the Wii U, hence selling very well. It's not that it could get worse than the Wii U.

If that's how it worked, then the Dreamcast should have fared leaps and bounds better than the Saturn.

Also, you are on record that Switch will fail.

Was that before or after it was revealed as a hybrid?

I remember saying that I would consider it as a failure if it sold less than 40-50m because it was a hybrid. 40m for a home console only would be a great success for Nintendo.



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TruckOSaurus on 21 June 2017
RolStoppable said:
vivster said:

Which proves my point. The next home console from Nintendo would've been better in all aspects than the Wii U, hence selling very well. It's not that it could get worse than the Wii U.

If that's how it worked, then the Dreamcast should have fared leaps and bounds better than the Saturn.

Also, you are on record that Switch will fail.

TruckOSaurus said:

Stolen from Green098's thread:

By the start of April, the Wii U was already in trouble and then from May onward it slipped into god awful territory.

Wii U launched in November. The holidays masked how terrible of a console it was. As soon as the holidays were over, it was dead in the water. The Japanese holiday season extends into the first half January which is why Wii U had so "many" 100k+ weeks early on.

Yeah, my months are screwed up there. Wii U was down in the dumps by mid-January.



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Medisti on 21 June 2017

I'm pretty impressed with the support for 3DS for the rest of the year. I had planned to drop it like a bag of lead once the Switch was released, but Fire Emblem Echoes and Metroid have got me at least playing it a little bit still. If Ever Oasis reviews really well, I'll get it, too.



irstupid on 21 June 2017
monocle_layton said:
Hasn't even been 6 months and the Switch is quickly eating up the chart. Wow.

Well the chart is about revenue. Be a different story if it was operation profit or something besides just straight up cash. I mean the Switch costs $300, and it's games $60.

Just one person buying a system and 1 game equals 1 3DS and like 5 games revenue wise. Or 1 system is like 7 1/2 games, considering the Switch is selling like 300k more than the 3ds a week. Obviously it will bring in revenue easier.



vivster on 21 June 2017
RolStoppable said:
vivster said:

Was that before or after it was revealed as a hybrid?

I remember saying that I would consider it as a failure if it sold less than 40-50m because it was a hybrid. 40m for a home console only would be a great success for Nintendo.

After: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8249871

Not sure how seriously that post was meant but let's say it was. Now all it has to do is sell less than 50m and I stay right.

And I'm still not sure it will reach that milestone. You can put that on record too.



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