I don't see most people looking at it as a handheld. I can't imagine most people using it that way after the initial 'gee whiz' period wears off. Other than the few people that actually travel a lot....most people don't. It's probably going to be viewed the same way as Nintendo systems have been viewed for over a decade now. As a system that's a bit different from the others, that probably lacks a lot of 3rd-party games, but also has cool stuff you can't get elsewhere.
I think it will be seen as a primarily portable system. Nintendo will need to go after the 3DS buyers, eg. kids. The Switch will be a lot easier sell for parents if it's a portable thingamajig first and foremost. And the edgecrushers of the world couldn't care less that it's portable or not, they just see the next 3rd party-less Nintendo console.
I don't see it selling all that well. I'm predicting gamecube like sales. This whole philosophy of merging their 2 'pillars' is based on the assumption that Nintendo hardware would sell better if Nintendo themselves made more games for it. I don't agee with that. People who buy Nintendo games are perfectly fine with the amount of first party games. If they want to expand their market, they need to attract more third party support. They need to poach sales from Sony and MS and they won't do that with the promise of more Nintendo games. They need to show that they can provide nearly everything Sony and MS can (3rd party) AND their unique first party support.
The only way I see Nintendo gaining many sales is if they aim all that extra development time towards dormant IP, pulling back lapsed gamers who enjoyed Nintendo's more hardcore games. Stuff like F-zero, Waverace, Metroid Prime. Perhaps try more stuff like Geist or Day of Disaster. If they'll just resort to making 2 mario's, 2 zelda's and 2 pokémon games per system, hardware sales won't be invigorated.
gamingeek said:I don't know. I don't get it because of its hybrid nature.
Say it sells around 3DS numbers (doubtful IMO). Will people say that they are back in the home console race?
Or will it be viewed as a moderately well selling handheld and its sales "should be" expected? And shrugged off.
It will be seen as a faillure unless it manages to sell at least as much as the 3DS and the WiiU combined. If it doesn't reach that amount, their marketshare will have shrunk and the only thing they'll have to show for it is a decline in R&D cost.
It's a console, it will sell like a console. I expectbit to do better than GC but slightly so.
Who cares?! The haters will hate it the lovers will love it, reality be damned.
And how the Switch will do? I have no clue, but it will probably do a lot better than the Wii U seeing as people actually know that it exist!
Nintendo are really going to have to step up their online game for the Switch to do anything significant above selling more Switches then the GameCube. Right now I'm expecting it to sell around the GC level perhaps slightly better. This upcoming presentation is going to have to really hit it out of the park to raise my expectations.
Dvader said:It's a console, it will sell like a console. I expectbit to do better than GC but slightly so.
Is it?
You can plug a tablet into your TV and its not considered a home console. I dunno. Maybe I'm being pessimistic here but I'm not getting good vibes from it at the moment.
SupremeAC said:It will be seen as a faillure unless it manages to sell at least as much as the 3DS and the WiiU combined. If it doesn't reach that amount, their marketshare will have shrunk and the only thing they'll have to show for it is a decline in R&D cost.
Yikes. First time I have seen this expressed.
No way it will do those numbers. What about if their software sales and profits rise, wont Nintendo themselves see it as a success?
Archangel3371 said:Nintendo are really going to have to step up their online game for the Switch to do anything significant above selling more Switches then the GameCube. Right now I'm expecting it to sell around the GC level perhaps slightly better. This upcoming presentation is going to have to really hit it out of the park to raise my expectations.
Gamecube level sales would excite me if it means a new Metroid. Lol
gamingeek said:Yikes. First time I have seen this expressed.
No way it will do those numbers. What about if their software sales and profits rise, wont Nintendo themselves see it as a success?
Software sales won't rise. Where in the past they'd release a home and mobile Mario title, now they'll release a Mario title and maybe something like F-zero or a new IP. No way their software sales will increase.
I think it's floor is much higher than what the WiiU ended up at, but I don't think it'll sell up to snuff. I like the fact that Nintendo's games will be all on one device, but man if there was ever a time they should have been assholes, they should have probably held off Pokemon Sun n Moon, and saved it as Switch launch titles. Understand that they have to fight like 3 other companies to make that happen or something, but it's such a certified way to make cash money.
They had the casuals back in love with Pokemon thanks to Pokemon Go, the craze was there, and Pokemon is probably Nintendo's biggest draw these days.
I don't know. I don't get it because of its hybrid nature.
Say it sells around 3DS numbers (doubtful IMO). Will people say that they are back in the home console race?
Or will it be viewed as a moderately well selling handheld and its sales "should be" expected? And shrugged off.