SmokedMeat
Gamer™
And what makes it the best selling console? The games.
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And what makes it the best selling console? The games.
SweetTooth
Gold Member
It sound crazy to you because you refuse to see the bias! Just like how Apple fans still thinks USB C was great innovation.
Nintendo in a nutshell:
- Low end hardware
- Online infrastructure thats 10 years behind everyone
- Copy pasted games that cater "mainly" to kids (Great gameplay)
- overwhelming media bias
You cant change my opinion
Robb
Gold Member
Sure, but their fiscal year ends 31 March 2025. I think the main divide is whether it’ll get shown before 2025 or after.
saintjules
Gold Member
I honestly don't see the logic of releasing this info right before the holidays when it's almost surely 0% chance of coming out until 2025. But I guess we'll see. That's really my only opinion on it, makes sense to reveal sometime early next year. Other than that, I don't think it matters when.
Maybe they want their stock to go up.
To be fair the Switch was announced on October 2016. So I guess for them they don't care about Holidays since they know it will be out by Spring 2025.
Warspite
Member
Wasn't the Wii U dead by then?
RoboFu
One of the green rats
It sound crazy to you because you refuse to see the bias! Just like how Apple fans still thinks USB C was great innovation.
Nintendo in a nutshell:
- Low end hardware
- Online infrastructure thats 10 years behind everyone
- Copy pasted games that cater "mainly" to kids (Great gameplay)
- overwhelming media bias
You cant change my opinion
Apple fans had thunderbolt not just usbc. That's the kind of huge difference you don't understand.
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Markio128
Gold Member
If it was as simple as the games then PS1 and PS2 would have sold twice as many consoles. Times have changed, and more people game, especially kids and families in general, which is why the Switch has sold so well as it is aimed at that market (and so happens to be portable as well - undoubtedly a genius move). But to use sales as an argument as something being the best is bullshit. There’s more to it than that. I can assure you that the best selling car, TV, musical instrument, etc., isn’t the best.
Woopah
Member
Won't be at TGS itself as Nintendo doesn't attend.TGS
He does attend industry events and have contacts there, so he's no "pretend insider". But that doesn't mean everything he hears from developers is accurate.cris dingaling knows nothing he the guy who leak UK sales pretend insider I am known for my perdictions
Robb
Gold Member
FY2013: 3.45M
FY2014: 2.72M
FY2015: 3.38M
FY2016: 3.26M
FY2017: 0.76M
LTD: 13.57M
It was basically dead throughout its entire “life”span.
Comparatively Nintendo is estimating to sell 13.5M Nintendo Switch units this FY alone..
cireza
Member
Also because it is the only option available for kids, and the only handheld option for the mass market (yes, I am excluding those ugly PC bricks that cost 500+ $).
Nelly_Nel_7.1.3
Neo Member
Woopah
Member
Two main reasons I can think of are:I honestly don't see the logic of releasing this info right before the holidays when it's almost surely 0% chance of coming out until 2025. But I guess we'll see. That's really my only opinion on it, makes sense to reveal sometime early next year. Other than that, I don't think it matters when.
Maybe they want their stock to go up.
1. Allow third parties to announce their Switch 2 projects at TGS and the Game Awards
2.If Nintendo want to have enough stock, they need to start mass manufacturing in the not too distant future. And once they do that it will be very hard to stop any leaks.
Doctor Hades
Member
I would be very surprised if Nintendo officially announce the Switch's successor this side of 2024 as doing so would surely affect sales of the current model in the run up to Christmas?
I mean if I wanted to buy a Switch now and found out that Switch 2 was coming out next Easter (2025) then I'd just choose to wait (that's assuming the Switch 2 is backward compatible, of course, otherwise I will not be buying the console at all!).
I mean if I wanted to buy a Switch now and found out that Switch 2 was coming out next Easter (2025) then I'd just choose to wait (that's assuming the Switch 2 is backward compatible, of course, otherwise I will not be buying the console at all!).
nani17
are in a big trouble
You're right. Nintendo are never at TGS
Interfectum
Member
Sounds like you are playing games for all the wrong reasons. I love how you put "great gameplay" as a pejorative. Geforce 4090 didn't save Concord from being a fucking turkey did it?It sound crazy to you because you refuse to see the bias! Just like how Apple fans still thinks USB C was great innovation.
Nintendo in a nutshell:
- Low end hardware
- Online infrastructure thats 10 years behind everyone
- Copy pasted games that cater "mainly" to kids (Great gameplay)
- overwhelming media bias
You cant change my opinion
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Woopah
Member
They used to have their own press events in October during the Wii/DS days, and before that they had Space World. But nowadays they just do Directs (and occasionally have something for The Game Awards).
SweetTooth
Gold Member
No it didn't, but also great gameplay is not exclusive to kiddy Nintendo games
digoutyoursoul
Member
Just going the toilet for a Dring
Zacfoldor
Member
Bahahahahahaha!!!!It sound crazy to you because you refuse to see the bias! Just like how Apple fans still thinks USB C was great innovation.
Nintendo in a nutshell:
- Low end hardware
- Online infrastructure thats 10 years behind everyone
- Copy pasted games that cater "mainly" to kids (Great gameplay)
- overwhelming media bias
You cant change my opinion
Great gameplay is LITERALLY the only thing that matters and why the games score 90+ lolol.
Concord and Astrobot Spider Man 2 Dark Souls 3 Marathon are totally not copy pasted, search, find, replace all, though. Not at all. Steam Deck is not copy/pasted at all.
You are saying Nintendo focuses on great gameplay and we agree. So does Valve.
If only everyone else would follow suit.
My brother, Nintendo will still be making games with superior gameplay on bespoke walled garden consoles for as long as they can manage it. This is very good for everyone. Why is it you resent them?
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Woopah
Member
Fiscal year ends 31 March 2025 for Nintendo.
Hudo
Member
Have fun, motherfucker.
deriks
4-Time GIF/Meme God
Can someone put JPEGs of the Tweets?
It's blocked here in Brazil
Also, like I said before, it's a teaser in the last quarter, a trailer by the end of the year, launch by the end of fiscal year
Metroid Prime 4 will be a launch tittle and a new 3D Mario will come by the end of the year
It's blocked here in Brazil
Also, like I said before, it's a teaser in the last quarter, a trailer by the end of the year, launch by the end of fiscal year
Metroid Prime 4 will be a launch tittle and a new 3D Mario will come by the end of the year
Solarstrike
Member
Robb
Gold Member
saintjules
Gold Member
I don't know, I was just citing out that Nintendo made a big of an announcement like the Switch before the holidays.
CobraAB
Member
Doesn't everyone have a Switch by now?
Little Chicken
Member
Switch 2 coming to steal PS5 Pro's thunder is unsurprising and hilarious.
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
For what its worth
LordNerevar76
Neo Member
I thought these type of edgy 2007-era Nintendo opinions were dead. Guess not.It sound crazy to you because you refuse to see the bias! Just like how Apple fans still thinks USB C was great innovation.
Nintendo in a nutshell:
- Low end hardware
- Online infrastructure thats 10 years behind everyone
- Copy pasted games that cater "mainly" to kids (Great gameplay)
- overwhelming media bias
You cant change my opinion
Woopah
Member
I'm sure I've seen people say that Chris is a fanboy for/against all three manufacturers at some point or another when they don't like his sales analysis hahs
He has said that he aligns mostly with Nintendo though.
Sethbacca
Member
You forgotIt sound crazy to you because you refuse to see the bias! Just like how Apple fans still thinks USB C was great innovation.
Nintendo in a nutshell:
- Low end hardware
- Online infrastructure thats 10 years behind everyone
- Copy pasted games that cater "mainly" to kids (Great gameplay)
- overwhelming media bias
You cant change my opinion
- Most consistent quality gameplay experience 4 decades running.
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SmokedMeat
Gamer™
I agree that sales can’t always be used to determine what’s the best, and even then it’s entirely subjective.
I’m saying consoles don’t just sell for no reason. It’s the games that drive sales, and Switch hasn’t outsold everyone else just because. Sony and Sega both tried and failed to compete against Nintendo in the portable market.
It is 1,000% about having the games people want to play the most. We can pretend that PSone and PS2 would’ve magically beat Switch in a fantasy scenario, but in the real world Animal Crossing alone blows away every Sony franchise easily.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Other companies have tried and failed to win the handheld market.
As for handheld PCs, what’s amusing is they’re ergonomically designed well. It’s actually the Switch that’s built like a brick.
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Heimdall_Xtreme
Jim Ryan Fanclub's #1 Member
Im not ready for this.
Judge Magister
Member
I still do not own a Switch because I waited for the "Pro". Same with PS5.
Since it seems to be a new console I need details to know what to do.
Since it seems to be a new console I need details to know what to do.
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Quantum253
Gold Member
It's already been 9 years! The 3DS still feels like it's not that old
Markio128
Gold Member
I was nodding my head in relative agreement until you mentioned Animal Crossing vs every Sony franchise. I don’t even know where to start with that one. I can only assume you mean sales?
What I will say is that Sony didn’t rely on 1st party games - I’d argue that MGS, GTA and Resident Evil etc., were the games that Most people will have the fondest memories of. It’s the complete opposite on Ninty platforms.
On that point, Sony (and MS) have massive sellers such as GTAV and Elden Ring, so it’s swings and roundabouts really.