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PortisheadBiscuit on 06 December 2022
OTBWY said:

Hold up, the Switch was falling off a cliff.

Now it has outsold the PS4?

hihi.

Can't help but wonder what old CliffRick is up to these days? He's sort of legendary lol 



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mjk45 on 06 December 2022
curl-6 said:

It finally happened.

A true David and Goliath fight, and at long last the giant has fallen. If you suggested it back before the Switch launched, or even in its early years, you'd have been laughed at and called delusional.

The story of the Switch has been one long sequence of smashing expectations and overcoming the odds, and this latest milestone is one more gem in its crown.

To me it's more the tale of two consoles that overcame their lacklustre predecessors, one by accepting that while exotic hardware may be fine for AAA first party games that have the time and budget to utilise that hardware, for 3rd parties that same time and effort formula equals minimum required effort games, now while the domination of the preceding PlayStations helped alleviate the problem the same could not be said for the PS3 with it's slow sales and strong 360 competition so Sony finally having an engineering team listening to the people that produce the software leading to a strong rebound in the form of the PS4 was good, but alas for every good thing comes a bad thing in this case a certain CEO by the name of Jim Ryan, in Nintendo's case it was one of combining both sides to produce a Hybrid console that while new and fresh they now have a base that is less reliant on having to find the next new thing unless that new sales boosting thing was covid 😊(joke)😊

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trunkswd on 06 December 2022
DroidKnight said:

Hardware chart didn't update?

I hadn't noticed that, thank you. It is supposed to automatically update. Sometimes it can take an hour...maybe 2 tops. But never this long. I've let the devs know. 



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shikamaru317 on 06 December 2022
super_etecoon said:

Which "VGChartzStaff" wrote this compelling article on launch day for the Nintendo Switch?

It includes this nice conclusion:

"Final Thoughts & Predictions

I’m looking forward to receiving my Nintendo Switch sometime soon (whenever Royal Mail finally delivers it!) and putting it through its paces, but I'm concerned that Nintendo is making the same mistakes its competitors have made before it, and even repeating some of their missteps with the WiiU. It's in a stronger position to succeed than its immediate predecessor - indeed I see the Switch outselling the WiiU - but in the long run I don't see it coming close to the success of the 3DS or PS4.

Here are my predictions for the Switch over the coming years:

  • The Nintendo Switch will sell more than the WiiU (10+ million units)
  • But it will not sell more than 25 million units.
  • At $299.99/£279.99, the Switch won’t sell well beyond launch, resulting in a price drop within its first full year on the market."

Also, does anyone have a handy guide to Switch Sales predictions over the years, in particular 2017?  Would love to see where the range was, and in particular what my prediction was.  I'd like a helping of crow for the holidays if possible.

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/profile/121081/dancarreras/



Torpoleon on 06 December 2022

Wheres that grim reaper meme for Switch knocking on Game Boy's door now?



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RolStoppable on 06 December 2022
super_etecoon said:

Which "VGChartzStaff" wrote this compelling article on launch day for the Nintendo Switch?

It includes this nice conclusion:

"Final Thoughts & Predictions

I’m looking forward to receiving my Nintendo Switch sometime soon (whenever Royal Mail finally delivers it!) and putting it through its paces, but I'm concerned that Nintendo is making the same mistakes its competitors have made before it, and even repeating some of their missteps with the WiiU. It's in a stronger position to succeed than its immediate predecessor - indeed I see the Switch outselling the WiiU - but in the long run I don't see it coming close to the success of the 3DS or PS4.

Here are my predictions for the Switch over the coming years:

  • The Nintendo Switch will sell more than the WiiU (10+ million units)
  • But it will not sell more than 25 million units.
  • At $299.99/£279.99, the Switch won’t sell well beyond launch, resulting in a price drop within its first full year on the market."

Also, does anyone have a handy guide to Switch Sales predictions over the years, in particular 2017?  Would love to see where the range was, and in particular what my prediction was.  I'd like a helping of crow for the holidays if possible.

I remember that back then when the article had gone up, I asked the mod team when the author would get banned for trolling. All they said was that they don't ban people for being stupid.



Legend11 correctly predicted that GTA IV will outsell Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I was wrong.

trunkswd on 06 December 2022
Torpoleon said:

Wheres that grim reaper meme for Switch knocking on Game Boy's door now?

I've been wondering that as well. I can't remember who usually does those. 



VGChartz Sales Analyst and Writer - William D'Angelo - I stream on Twitch and have my own YouTube. Follow me on Twitter @TrunksWD.

Writer of the Sales Comparison | Weekly Hardware Breakdown | Top 10 | Weekly Sales Analysis | Marketshare Features, as well as daily news on the Video Game Industry.

123tbones on 06 December 2022
shikamaru317 said:
super_etecoon said:

Which "VGChartzStaff" wrote this compelling article on launch day for the Nintendo Switch?

It includes this nice conclusion:

"Final Thoughts & Predictions

I’m looking forward to receiving my Nintendo Switch sometime soon (whenever Royal Mail finally delivers it!) and putting it through its paces, but I'm concerned that Nintendo is making the same mistakes its competitors have made before it, and even repeating some of their missteps with the WiiU. It's in a stronger position to succeed than its immediate predecessor - indeed I see the Switch outselling the WiiU - but in the long run I don't see it coming close to the success of the 3DS or PS4.

Here are my predictions for the Switch over the coming years:

  • The Nintendo Switch will sell more than the WiiU (10+ million units)
  • But it will not sell more than 25 million units.
  • At $299.99/£279.99, the Switch won’t sell well beyond launch, resulting in a price drop within its first full year on the market."

Also, does anyone have a handy guide to Switch Sales predictions over the years, in particular 2017?  Would love to see where the range was, and in particular what my prediction was.  I'd like a helping of crow for the holidays if possible.

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/profile/121081/dancarreras/

Quick! We must track him down and let him know how wrong he was at any means necessary! 😋



super_etecoon on 06 December 2022
123tbones said:
shikamaru317 said:

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/profile/121081/dancarreras/

Quick! We must track him down and let him know how wrong he was at any means necessary! 😋

He hasn’t been here since 2020. You’ve only been here since ‘21. It’s you leading the charge against yourself. 😂😂



DroidKnight on 06 December 2022
trunkswd said:
Torpoleon said:

Wheres that grim reaper meme for Switch knocking on Game Boy's door now?

I've been wondering that as well. I can't remember who usually does those. 

@Chicho

You done with those Black Friday sales yet?  There's a couple of victims fans seeking your services.



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