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GoOnKid on 28 January 2019

No big deal, it's gonna recover eventually.



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Kai_Mao on 28 January 2019
melbye said:
irstupid said:

No. A stock drop is temp. Probably be up by weeks end. I mean beyond the stocks, the internets reaction to the Metroid news has been pretty universally liked. It's refreshing to have a company be so honest. 

But putting it in a direct, would have sullied a direct. Best to have the bad news be on its own and not take away from somethign else

I was thinking announce the delay Thursday morning, and then later in the day announce a Direct for Friday

I guess the issue is Nintendo, from my recollection, never released a direct on a Friday before. Also, apparently, in a business sense, it made sense to post the news on a Friday due to how the business cycle works. Once the weekend is over, it becomes old news instead of being dwelled at for the whole week.

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Amnesia on 28 January 2019
CaptainExplosion said:
Amnesia said:

I don't think that it would sell more than 300000 at launch, but I may be absolutly wrong.

Some "experts" believe that Nintendo has lost a potential strong seller like SSBU..Which is not at all.

So it's like I said, and shareholders are just a bunch of suits who don't know or care about video games?

I believe yes, for the majority of them. The huge proof is what happened for the year 2018 with the share price. Most of them have not seen the strategy of Nintendo which was to hold 9 months with only Kirby, Octopath, Mario Tennis and Labo, and drop the 3 massive loads on each months of Q3 to maximise the sales and finish 1st at the end.



AngryLittleAlchemist on 28 January 2019

This kind of stuff means nothing. Nintendo loses stock when Shigeru eats popcorn off the floor.



AngryLittleAlchemist on 28 January 2019
Darwinianevolution said:
Amnesia said:

I don't think that it would sell more than 300000 at launch, but I may be absolutly wrong.

Some "experts" believe that Nintendo has lost a potential strong seller like SSBU..Which is not at all.

My fair is that they decided to restart the game from ground to make it with the new dev kit for the successor of the Switch. I still don't believe into a Switch Pro coming.

They have seen the visual gap between their prototype of MP4 with the last exclusives of the PS4, and they decided that they could not launch for next Christmas a game so ridiculous graphically compared to the next coming games from the competitors.

If this is true, investers once again don't know what they're doing. Since when has Metroid been a strong seller, much less a Smash level hit?

People mention that Metroid isn't a software seller a lot, but surely when compared to most 2-4 million sellers from Nintendo it probably sells a lot more hardware, right? Like .. I would find it a little odd if Kirby and Yoshi sell as much hardware as Metroid does. Kirby might beat Metroid in Japan but still.



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Manlytears on 28 January 2019

Is ninty in line whit the 20M on fiscal year? I think they will be under 20 M, and this also will be bad news for than. ( i mean, imho they will have amazing numbers, 18 -19M, but still under 20M.)



AngryLittleAlchemist on 28 January 2019
CaptainExplosion said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

This kind of stuff means nothing. Nintendo loses stock when Shigeru eats popcorn off the floor.

How do they feel if he sneezes then?

It depends. If he does the arm-extended Vampire sneeze, it's only a -10%. If he sneezes with a tissue, it's a -8%. But if he accidentally sneezes without coverage, it's usually a -20%. Though in the summer of 2015 it went up as high as -25%



The_Liquid_Laser on 28 January 2019
AngryLittleAlchemist said:
Darwinianevolution said:

If this is true, investers once again don't know what they're doing. Since when has Metroid been a strong seller, much less a Smash level hit?

People mention that Metroid isn't a software seller a lot, but surely when compared to most 2-4 million sellers from Nintendo it probably sells a lot more hardware, right? Like .. I would find it a little odd if Kirby and Yoshi sell as much hardware as Metroid does. Kirby might beat Metroid in Japan but still.

I bet this is true.  Metroid is kind of distinct from other Nintendo franchises.  It is sci-fi and tends to be edgier than the standard Nintendo stuff.  Kirby and Yoshi kind of come across and kiddy and wholesome much like Mario does.  My impression is that the Metroid fanbase is smallish but extremely passionate.



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Victorlink87 on 28 January 2019

Ohh investors, so damn fickle.



AngryLittleAlchemist on 28 January 2019
The_Liquid_Laser said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

People mention that Metroid isn't a software seller a lot, but surely when compared to most 2-4 million sellers from Nintendo it probably sells a lot more hardware, right? Like .. I would find it a little odd if Kirby and Yoshi sell as much hardware as Metroid does. Kirby might beat Metroid in Japan but still.

I bet this is true.  Metroid is kind of distinct from other Nintendo franchises.  It is sci-fi and tends to be edgier than the standard Nintendo stuff.  Kirby and Yoshi kind of come across and kiddy and wholesome much like Mario does.  My impression is that the Metroid fanbase is smallish but extremely passionate.

Yeah, and I have a feeling it could be a pretty decent system seller if it had good marketing. I mean, it's a sci fi exploration game with shooter elements. But even without capturing the general audience, it's so different from other Nintendo franchises that I do think it sells fans on the hardware. Don't think that's really the case for most of the platformers.