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Rafterman

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Lenas said:
You say to ignore Japan and then post Japan sales numbers.

Global sales after two months:
Switch: 3,488,881
Wii: 2,954,781

Numbers are numbers. Fuck whatever arguments you want to make.
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I never said shit about ignoring Japan. And you are right numbers are numbers, unfortunately for you mine are up to date and you're still using month old talking points.

Your numbers and arguments are no longer accurate.
 
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Utnayan

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The Dauntless One said:
Are Utnayan and Rafterman really that butthurt people are buying $300 consoles that they think are shit? Who cares what people buy? It's $300, not $10,000, and a casual like me already had more fun on the Switch than the Wii. Some people like portability.
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I don't give a shit what people buy. I am tired of the misinformation of people spreading this false hype around a shit console making it out to be better than it is, because it isn't. You know me better by now than to give two shits what people buy. I get tired of the misleading garbage Nintendo fans have been spouting for the last 2 generations of console sales.

How about THAT stops, because then maybe Nintendo would pull their head out of their ass so I can buy a good Nintendo console again with solid games and value added services that make sense instead of sending customers back to the stone age with backwards thinking?
 
Utnayan

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Lenas said:
You say to ignore Japan and then post Japan sales numbers.

Global sales after two months:
Switch: 3,488,881
Wii: 2,954,781

Numbers are numbers. Fuck whatever arguments you want to make.
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Well now that we are in the first three months:

Switch: 3.76 (Estimated based on what we know of the serious decline in sales in April due to supply limitations extending into May)
Wii 5.84

Wii sales - Wikipedia

Queue in "BUT THEY HAD HOLIDAY SEASON!" :rolleyes:
 
Utnayan

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Let me go ahead and show something else. Total Wii sales in it's lifetime.

Japan: 12.75 Million Units
America: 48.64 Million Units
Other: 40.23 Million units

In a global market, for a global company, who made the most successful console ever from a financial view point, only 12.545% of Nintendo's sales were realized in Japan. 87.455% of Wii sales, which made NIntendo enormously successful, was everybody outside of Japan.

Why is this important? Because the Switch's success will be dependent on the global market and Japan is going to be another shaving on the pile. The main issue with this is Nintendo caters to Japan, when they do not realize the reason they were successful is when they catered more to the rest of the world. The Switch has backwards as fuck services attached with it, archaic hardware design, a ridiculous step backwards in both the online component and account services/ease of use for online services/customer friendly features, when set against the successful standard to today's services on other consoles. And if you do not think consoles have changed into a service market you're high on meth.

And it will destroy their global market. Period. And you won't be able to sugar coat it or spin the shit. Regardless of how many "But I can play this game while taking a dump and thank God for that because with this irritable bowl syndrome (That from the sounds of it everyone who owns this thing suffers with daily) I can play for an hour at a time while leaking away!" players there are going to be.

And if they come with nothing to the plate except what we already know is coming this year at E3, the hype is dead and this thing will over supply itself into oblivion.
 
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Lenas

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Didn't realize my numbers were that old. I concede and hope the thing fails anyway. Nintendo should have dropped completely from the console market and never made the Switch dock, then no one would have to pretend that they are in competition with MS/Sony and they could be praised for amazing mobile games.
 
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Nintendo hasn't thought of themselves competing with MS/Sony since the Wii, that was the whole point of the machine. Blue ocean and all that.

Also comparing Japanese numbers in 2017 for the Switch and the Wii 11 years ago is dumb. The console market in Japan has seriously declined since then - every week the top10 software is usually 8 3DS games and maybe a new PS4 game every once and awhile.

The only reason the Switch is selling out in Japan is 1) it's a handheld and 2) Nintendo is only delivering 25k units a week there. They are probably building up stock of the new Splatoon 2 Switch SKU that's releasing in Japan because Splatoon is a huge IP there.
 
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spronk

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real or fake? i'm leaning fake with COD and overwatch

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Palum

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Seems plausible, I don't know enough about some of the franchises but most seem already announced or hinted at and nothing outrageously surprising. 2 FE games for Switch, though...
 
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To many metroid titles, despite my love for the series they haven't put out a good one in a while so doubt they make 2 at once. Also Donkey Kong by not retro seems weird with how last 2 sold.

Hope it is real but doubtful.
 
Rafterman

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Blizzard just said last month a Switch version of Overwatch wasn't happening. The Switch hardware hasn't changed since then. I'm going with fake.
 
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I don't think CoD would be that far fetched - Wii U had Blops2 and there is a credible rumor out there of WW2 getting a Switch version - on the Call of Duty website you can even sign up with a NNID.

Overwatch seems far fetched though after Blizzard's statement last month. I'm sure the Switch could run it but it doesn't seem worth it for Blizzard to pursue until the Switch has a much bigger install base.
 
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"“I'm loving the Switch!” Kaplan wrote. “My second favorite gaming platform of all time is the 3DS. Getting [Overwatch] on the Switch is very challenging for us. But we're always open minded about exploring possible platforms.”

They didn't outright say it wasn't happening.

It will depend on how much money Nintendo threw at them :)
 
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I hope that list is real. Having both a 2D Metroid and a new Metroid Prime would be awesome, along with a dozen other titles on that list.
 
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The Dauntless One said:
Are Utnayan and Rafterman really that butthurt people are buying $300 consoles that they think are shit? Who cares what people buy? It's $300, not $10,000, and a casual like me already had more fun on the Switch than the Wii. Some people like portability.
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I posted before that I liked the purchase just for BoTW and some MK, but the games lined up are crap.
 
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