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Will the Switch Dominate The Holiday Season?

Yes 69 50.74%
 
No, Sony will 42 30.88%
 
No, Microsoft will 5 3.68%
 
Not sure 20 14.71%
 
Total:136
TruckOSaurus on 31 May 2018
Faelco said:
TruckOSaurus said:

There's 2D Mario and Animal Crossing that could flesh out 2019. 

True!

I still think they should try to put their releases on the entire year. We saw on April what it does when another console has a big game but the Switch has nothing to compete.... Consoles sell with games, and should sell all year long, not just for Christmas. Sony got that, MS still doesn't get it, not entirely sure about Nintendo yet.

Nintendo had their releases spread out much better in 2017. This year is heavily skewed toward the second half which made the first months quite boring on the Switch front.



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Nautilus on 31 May 2018
LethalP said:
Nautilus said:

There was no new system back then, and all systems on the market were old, so everyone were on even grounds.

3DS released March 2011.

Oh yeah, I forgot about the 3DS.You could say that, given the initial mistakes that Nintendo did with it, it could have influenced it somehow, but you would still have a point.

 

Nevertheless, its not the norm.It happened once, maybe it happened in another situation, but usually new systems have advantages over old systems(I think you can call PS4 "old" with it having more than 5 years on the market).I guess we will see later this year.



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HyrulianScrolls on 31 May 2018
Megiddo said:
HyrulianScrolls said:
You get smash for the core gamers and a casual Pokemon game for the casuals. I'm definitely going with yes. As of now, Sony doesn't even have a truly big exclusive scheduled for Q4.

What was the big exclusive for Q4 last year for Sony that caused them to easily win the holiday (Nov-Dec) sales?

True, but Smash+Pokemon is a much bigger force together than 3D Mario. Will be hard for anyone to compete with that.



Faelco on 31 May 2018
TruckOSaurus said:
Faelco said:

True!

I still think they should try to put their releases on the entire year. We saw on April what it does when another console has a big game but the Switch has nothing to compete.... Consoles sell with games, and should sell all year long, not just for Christmas. Sony got that, MS still doesn't get it, not entirely sure about Nintendo yet.

Nintendo had their releases spread out much better in 2017. This year is heavily skewed toward the second half which made the first months quite boring on the Switch front.

Well, to be fair the Switch released in March 2017 so they kinda needed games early in the year ^^

 

We'll see how 2019 turns out! 



Ljink96 on 31 May 2018

It literally falls down to how many Pokemon Go players will bite on the Lets Go games. Smash is great...but it's not winning any holidays. PS4 is gonna have the usual suspects and with that install base, it's gonna be tough to beat.



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pokoko on 31 May 2018

Sony is foolish to think sales during the rest of the year matter as much as sales during the holiday period.



jason1637 on 31 May 2018
Megiddo said:
HyrulianScrolls said:
You get smash for the core gamers and a casual Pokemon game for the casuals. I'm definitely going with yes. As of now, Sony doesn't even have a truly big exclusive scheduled for Q4.

What was the big exclusive for Q4 last year for Sony that caused them to easily win the holiday (Nov-Dec) sales?

GT Sport.



quickrick on 31 May 2018
zorg1000 said:
Megiddo said:

It's also not unheard of for Sony to be extremely conservative in their shipment forecast. That said, I did completely forget that due to whatever reason RAM has really increased in price (maybe the RAM producers saw that sweet crypto money from GPUs and wanted in?) so that could be a reason that we might not see a holiday price-cut.

Sure, i could certainly see them revising or exceeding their current 16 million forcast but that wasnt really my point. Im just saying a decline in shipments does not necessarilly mean a price cut is impossible.

considering how great ps4 is doing this year so far, and how amazing it sold at 199$, a 16 million forecast means sony most likely doesn't want to do amazing deals this year.



adisababa on 31 May 2018

Not even close, Switch's lineup is puny compared to the other consoles' lineup.

RDR2, COD BO4, Battlefield 5, Fallout 76, Spiderman, Kingdom Hearts 3, FIFA compared to a second rate pokemon spinoff and smash is downright unfair if not laughable.

Plus the appeal of Fortnite and its seasons/updates will only serve to attract more kids to PS4/Xbox One.

I'm surprised so many people think the Switch will do well when it just doesn't have the means to even compete, it's severely outmatched. Blind fanboyism I guess.

 

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Green098 on 31 May 2018
adisababa said:
Not even close, Switch's lineup is puny compared to the other consoles' lineup.

RDR2, COD BO4, Battlefield 5, Fallout 76, Spiderman, Kingdom Hearts 3, FIFA compared to a second rate pokemon spinoff and smash is downright unfair if not laughable.

Plus the appeal of Fortnite and its seasons/updates will only serve to attract more kids to PS4/Xbox One.

I'm surprised so many people think the Switch will do well when it just doesn't have the means to even compete, it's severely outmatched. Blind fanboyism I guess.

Really? Switch kept up pretty well last year and that was with no bundles or price drops and only Super Mario Odyssey as it's main holiday sales driver.