Nintendo Switch Presentation - January 12th

xdr said:
Because games announced 6 months/1 year before the release are just announced to be able to lie to us with bullshots and all? Come on...

Everyone is not milionaire and some people need more than 2 months to save/prepare money for a console + 3/4 games... As I said especially teens/young adults (you know, the people mostly aimed by Nintendo).

And it's true that Nintendo never lies... Iwata "no, we're not working on a 3DS XL, there won't be a 3DS XL", 3 weeks after "here is the 3DS XL". Ok.
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If you know you want the console and some games then you can start saving now. You don't need to see the game a year ago.
 
xdr said:
And it's true that Nintendo never lies... Iwata "no, we're not working on a 3DS XL, there won't be a 3DS XL", 3 weeks after "here is the 3DS XL". Ok.
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I don't think Iwata said anything on the matter. I only remember someone from Nintendo of Europe denying the existence of a 3DS XL some time before it was announced. Maybe it was Satoru Shibata?
 
Pretty smart of Nintendo! Keep the hype going for 3 straight months with some free publicity here and there from the media. March until October will be the early adopters with the holidays going full blast. Damn nice
 
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xdr said:
Because games announced 6 months/1 year before the release are just announced to be able to lie to us with bullshots and all? Come on...

Everyone is not milionaire and some people need more than 2 months to save/prepare money for a console + 3/4 games... As I said especially teens/young adults (you know, the people mostly aimed by Nintendo).
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Is the console and games are gonna disappear after launch day or what? Never understood why you have to get it on day 1.
 
vern said:
If you know you want the console and some games then you can start saving now. You don't need to see the game a year ago.
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Well yeah, and it's what I'm doing but yeah I'd like to see games to be sure if I day one or not, and how many games I want... And... HOW MUCH do I need to save? :p The console 200, 300? 400? We don't know. :/

And I am (like a lot of us here) an early adopters of consoles... So a Nintendo console is sold at the second it is announced... But I'm talking about the people who need to be convinced, they are like what, 95% of people?
 
"We plan to launch Nintendo Switch worldwide in
March 2017. We are planning to ship two million
hardware units globally from launch in March 2017
through the end of that month. "

This statement makes me think it wont come out right at the end of March, I expect it to release on a Friday, so i'm guess Friday March 17th, which will be right over 2 months after the Switch Presentation
 
xdr said:
Well yeah, and it's what I'm doing but yeah I'd like to see games to be sure if I day one or not, and how many games I want... And... HOW MUCH do I need to save? :p The console 200, 300? 400? We don't know. :/

And I am (like a lot of us here) an early adopters of consoles... So a Nintendo console is sold at the second it is announced... But I'm talking about the people who need to be convinced, they are like what, 95% of people?
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Yea 2-3 months is plenty of time to convince people imo. Plus if they aren't the early adopter crowd who are already convinced then Nintendo has more than 2 months to sell it to them.
 
Bjoern the Smexy said:
I don't think Iwata said anything on the matter. I only remember someone from Nintendo of Europe denying the existence of a 3DS XL some time before it was announced. Maybe it was Satoru Shibata?
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Yeah, sorry, I don't remember exactly but I remember someone from Nintendo saying that, it was really not great... Still I bought one day one. xD

For other people who answered to me: yeah of course you don't need to day one, but it's their goal, sell as much as soon as possible (3DS sales are very low and the Wii U...). Soon after March is summer, during summer people use money to go holidays, not to buy consoles, I think.
 
jmizzal said:
"We plan to launch Nintendo Switch worldwide in
March 2017. We are planning to ship two million
hardware units globally from launch in March 2017
through the end of that month. "

This statement makes me think it wont come out right at the end of March, I expect it to release on a Friday, so i'm guess Friday March 17th, which will be right over 2 months after the Switch Presentation
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It needs to be March 10th for MAR10
 
Still bummed we might not hear much more this year, but its great to have a set date.

My calendar has been cleared for the 12th, fuck EVERYTHING ELSE its Nintendo time baby
 
kIdMuScLe said:
Pretty smart of Nintendo! Keep the hype going for 3 straight months with some free publicity here and there from the media. March until October will be the early adopters with the holidays going full blast. Damn nice
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Their strategy feels really similar to how they revealed the Wii. Complete silence with a few leaks here and there. Then show the console. Then say nothing about its games and price and release date (and in the case of Wii is controller) for another few months. And then release it yet another few months later in the same year.
It generated a lot of hype for sure. And obviously it sold extremely well.

The only thing different this time around is that the timeframe seems a bit more condensed. The time between acknowledgment (first time we heard of the NX) and actual reveal was longer than it was with the Wii, but the rest goes by much faster.

Still, Nintendo is doing it right, no doubt about that.
It's a clever marketing strategy. It definitely works for me at least.
 
jmizzal said:
"We plan to launch Nintendo Switch worldwide in
March 2017. We are planning to ship two million
hardware units globally from launch in March 2017
through the end of that month. "

This statement makes me think it wont come out right at the end of March, I expect it to release on a Friday, so i'm guess Friday March 17th, which will be right over 2 months after the Switch Presentation
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Yeah, that sounds very realistic. Would be my guess as well.
Now let's just hope the console itself with all it comes with won't cost note than 300$/€. I don't think I would buy it at a higher price.
 
Well, at least they gave us a date. It's better than nothing. Actually I am really glad they're giving us a date for something like this. Before they revealed the Switch I thought it was dumb that they weren't doing this, since with Sony's teasing of their PS4 press conference weeks in advance led to tons of hype for that. Instead we had to listen to conspiracy theorists predict what exact date it would have been revealed on with incredibly flimsy evidence for months in NX topics that lasted dozens of pages.
 
Toxi said:
Those are yearly events, so their general dates are taken for granted long before the actual dates are announced.

I'm not criticizing Nintendo for this decision, what works works, but it's going to be funny watching people here talk about nothing for months leading up to the announcement.
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I guess I dont really see much difference between when a company announces their dates for an E3 conference and when it actually happens. There's usually a month-plus of us speculating what kind of never-before-seen games they're going to show anyway.
 
Cant wait for this one. This will be big - really big.
 
I'll have to make guesses which third party companies will be on stage at the Nintendo presentation.

I think Square, Sega and Platinum will be there.
 
ShockingAlberto said:
Hm.

Exactly the date I guessed and 11 days before the famous Wii U January Direct.

I wonder if we'll see similar things announced this year that were announced that year~
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i wonder too, but i think their strategy might be different this time and focus on the launch games fist and foremost, Wii U Direct was after the launch and made to increase interest, it backfired when half of those games appeared three years later,

Not that i would complain about some juicy reveals
 
wwm0nkey said:
They should 100% do that lol

I'm expecting the 17th though
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Thankfully Nintendo isn't the type of company to add numbers to things instead of letters.

Imagine a new metroid gets announced and it's called: Met4oid P4ime 4. Kill me 😵
 
Sub Boss said:
i wonder too, but i think their strategy might be different this time and focus on the launch games fist and foremost, Wii U Direct was after the launch and made to increase interest, it backfired when half of those games appeared three years later,

Not that i would complain about some juicy reveals
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One of the many mistakes Nintendo made with Wii U was refusing to announce any titles outside of the "launch window" (lol, this ended up being a nine month period) before the system released. I doubt they'll make that mistake again. We'll probably get reveals of many of the biggest games releasing throughout 2017 (and maybe even 2018) during the presentation.
 
I'm glad we have a date. I can't wait to get my hands on this console. I hope they have reveal / hands on events like they did with Wii U.
 
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