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[RoboFu]

Im not taking a shit in my front room you lunatic

are you sure?

 

[cormack12]

Im not taking a shit in my front room you lunatic

 

[Mr Hyde]

Nintendo HQ right now

 

[reinking]

Great sell through. Having stock makes a huge difference for day one sales.

 

[clarky]

are you sure?

Maybe Nintendo are missing a trick here.

 

[cormack12]

Geoff getting epic money

 

[Schmendrick]

Finally a launch with noteworthy stock.
Using old tech surely helped with securing production capacities

 

[CrustyBritches]

It was obvious it was doing big numbers from the amount of people at the midnight events and the amount of units stores were getting. People were misinterpreting availability on launch day for lack of demand. When really it was because Nintendo sent another wave of systems out right before launch in addition to the preorders. Our local GameStop(in a small town) had 60 for preorder that sold out in April, then they got an 30 something units for launch day. 100 units sold before midnight on the 4th and before it even officially launched.

 

[cormack12]

30 devs? Obvs an ubisoft game

 

[LordOcidax]

Great sell through. Having stock makes a huge difference for day one sales.

If they manage to sell 5-6 Million first month, this thing is going to be hard to find in the next months.

 

[Imtjnotu]

If both of these are accurate bits of info, switch2 nearly did in 1 day what the ps5 did in a month

Switch 2 didn't go through a pandemic..... Don't do this

 

[SomeNorseGuy]

 

[Banjo64]

Isn't 'independent people' a given unless one of your sources is this chick?

 

[Dorfdad]

Fantastic system, much better than the switch 1 in terms of design, feel, speed etc. Couple of things need fixing, but im hoping they can do that with software and updates.

We keep forgetting were the SUPER niche fanbase for gaming. 90% of people just want to turn it on and play games. Not boot up adjust voltage, patch drivers, tweak settings.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Great start. It's not perfect but it's a nice machine and Mario Kart is fun

 

[IFireflyl]

Deserving for a company that really retains all there exclusives as exclusives. No multiplatform and no pc porting of Nintendo exclusives, good job Nintendo even if I'm a bit disappointing they fell the woke twisted gender ideology of removing male and female choices for Mii.

You should go back to not posting.

 

[Zacfoldor]

I can't find one anywhere online. Can you imagine when those floodgates open.

Nintendo is going to own the haters so hard with this launch and continued sales. This will be record setting. They will talk about this launch for decades.

 

[Azelover]

So it's probably gonna outsell the Wii U, right?

 

[Zacfoldor]

Trust me when I tell you it's all downhill from here, my friends. Nintendo done fukked up with the Switch 2 launch.

Wrong. Hahaha. Sig material.

/remindme 1 year

 

[GigaBowser]

So it's probably gonna outsell the Wii U, right?

pass steem deck day 0

 

[Three]

Isn't 'independent people' a given unless one of your sources is this chick?

They mean the 3 people didn't work for the same entity or were independent from Nintendo.

 

[Crayon]

Oh so it turns out nintendo knows what they're doing.

 

[GoldenEye98]

I can literally walk into my local Best Buy, Costco, EB Games and buy it right now if I wanted too.

 

[TheMan]

Nice achievement, but I can't help but think that playstation console sales have been hampered by availability, not demand.

 

[poppabk]

I'm not sure how anyone would have this info, wouldn't surprise me if it's true though.

Yeah not sure why we should believe this guy. Oh because 3 unnamed people told him so.

 

[K' Dash]

Man the salt is flowing like crazy here

 

[Sgt.Asher]

People are strangely butt hurt about the switch 2.

 

[Zannegan]

I wouldn't take anything from the Paul Gale Network seriously. Dude is the source of the Starfox X Metroid rumors from way back when. Either he did 0 vetting/fact checking or he just made that garbage up. Either way, his history doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

EDIT: According to Kit and Krysta's pre-launch show, Nintendo absolutely will let us know what milestones and records the launch breaks, so we won't have long to wait for something official. According to them, "best-selling" is best, "fastest selling" is something of a marketing smokescreen, and no announcement at all would signal an actual issue.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

So lower than the Bloomberg projections?

 

[Closer]

Im not taking a shit in my front room you lunatic

Use diapers

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

Gamer79 r u ok

 

[Jsisto]

So what you're saying is they're doomed?

 

[K' Dash]

People are strangely butt hurt about the switch 2.

all I see in social media is people saying the launch is a failure, then I come to this lol.

 

[Deerock71]

So what you're saying is they're doomed?

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

all I see in social media is people saying the launch is a failure, then I come to this lol.

the future is starting to look more and more like PC + Nintendo, in light of the fact that Sony gave up on exclusives

this has all sorts of people feeling some kind of way

 

[Deerock71]

the future is starting to look more and more like PC + Nintendo, in light of the fact that Sony gave up on exclusives

this has all sorts of people feeling some kind of way

If Valve launches Steam Deck 2 with Half Life 3...there's the competition.

 

[Hudo]

Impressive, considering that it had no big 3D Mario or Zelda game in the launch lineup. I know that Mario Kart is a very strong IP, but still...

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

 

[Interfectum]

But GAF said this was another WiiU situation…

 

[Mattyp]

According to some reports only ~1.2 million were available for the Japan market at launch.

Seems weird when the shelves are still packed as here and you can walk in and get one anywhere, I know they region locked the Japanese unit to be cheaper but thought be more supply then that.

 

[Interfectum]

Impressive, considering that it had no big 3D Mario or Zelda game in the launch lineup. I know that Mario Kart is a very strong IP, but still...

Huh… Mario kart is one of the strongest IPs they have bro.

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

Impressive, considering that it had no big 3D Mario or Zelda game in the launch lineup. I know that Mario Kart is a very strong IP, but still...

Zelda is my fav game series ever, but I think MK might be bigger. Especially when it comes to sales.

Gaf is out of touch on a few things, but one thing people seem to be consistently off about is the popularity of online games

 

[LordOcidax]

Huh… Mario kart is one of the strongest IPs they have bro.

People tend to forget that Mario Kart is the biggest Nintendo IP.

 

[Dacvak]

Nobody tell Ass of Can Whooping

 

[LordOcidax]

Nobody tell Ass of Can Whooping

I have the feeling that a lot of people wants to see this thread disappear

 

[ThatOneGrunt]

Bought one yesterday and I didn't even want one. Just saw the opportunity and bought it thinking I could decide later if I wanted to keep it. Sitting in a box right now in my kitchen not even opened.

 

[tamago84]

Only nintendo can get away with charging a $10 instruction manual

 

[Robb]

I do believe they would've sold everything they managed to ship, but even then 3M sounds bonkers..

If that's true we shouldn't have to wait long for confirmation from Nintendo.

 

[kpopSuperstar]

Problem they have imo is they released a lot of wii and wii u games on the switch to pad out the first party stuff.

I feel like that well is dry now outside of full blown remakes.

I think well see a lot of last gen third party ports filling the gaps and a lot less first party this time around.

No way we see a mainline Zelda until 2030 for example imo

They have the largest roster of in-development first party titles ever. On the Switch, they released exclusive games pretty much every quarter. And they can still do remakes, which they certainly are, because of the success of Mario RPG.

They have Donkey Kong, Kirby Air Ride, Pokemon Legends, and Metroid Prime this year.

And they have juggernaut system sellers like Smash Bros, Next-gen Pokemon and Animal Crossing around the corner.

3D Zelda will take a while, but they also have 3D Mario, as well as 2D Mario and 3D Zelda.

And then you have an large selection of games like Luigis Mansion 4, Fire Emblem, Splatoon 4, and Monoliths next game.

And this is just stuff we know are coming. They will have no issue producing games for the Switch 2.

 

[clarky]

They have the largest roster of in-development first party titles ever. On the Switch, they released exclusive games pretty much every quarter. And they can still do remakes, which they certainly are, because of the success of Mario RPG.

They have Donkey Kong, Kirby Air Ride, Pokemon Legends, and Metroid Prime this year.

And they have juggernaut system sellers like Smash Bros, Next-gen Pokemon and Animal Crossing around the corner.

3D Zelda will take a while, but they also have 3D Mario, as well as 2D Mario and 3D Zelda.

And then you have an large selection of games like Luigis Mansion 4, Fire Emblem, Splatoon 4, and Monoliths next game.

And this is just stuff we know are coming. They will have no issue producing games for the Switch 2.

This all sounds great and a genuine question. How many internal studios do Nintendo have?