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Nintendo Switch Sales Hit 10 Million Units, Could Outdo the Wii (fastcompany.com)
Nintendo's big bet on a hybrid portable and home game system is paying off, with 10 million Nintendo Switch units sold in nine months. From a report: Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime told Variety that the Switch could even top first-year sales of the Wii, the company's best-selling console yet -- if momentum holds up through the holidays. Strong sales will be important for Nintendo as it tries to convince game publishers to invest in the platform, whose less powerful hardware can't always handle the same games as Microsoft's Xbox and Sony's PlayStation consoles.
Then you can have it on PC, Switch, Xbox, and PS4. This just seems obvious.
Why did a garbage gaming company try to get into this business? Why are people buying theirs versus from a company like NetGear? Better management features? Easier SNMP interface?
They're competing against Leviton, you twit.
I read an article called "Top 5 Games For Nintento Switch", and it only had three games in it.
Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime told Variety that the Switch could even top first-year sales of the Wii, the company's best-selling console yet
This is probably almost entirely due to not launching during the holiday season before you had production and distribution fully ramped up. The number of sales lost due to hardware shortages is probably enough to cover the gap.
Oh, look .. the technology equivalent of a dad joke.
Pretty pathetic there, grandpa.
Only grandpas with nostalgia goggles think Nintendo doesn't suck.
can they mine Bitcoin?
When I do keg parties, that's what I'm there for. The longest wiiii you could imagine.
It's a handheld. The dock is just so Nintendo can gracefully exit the console business while saving face.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Is that a nostalgia thing, like the Amiga, Apple ][, Commodore 64?
Pretty un-fucking-likely. The Wii rode a massive wave of grannies and non-gamers who only ever used the thing for Wii Sports/Wii Play/Wii Other Assorted Minigame shit. The Switch has maybe 3 games worth playing with about 1 more in the pipe, unless they can somehow turn it into another motion-control gimmick machine and market it to the Wii crowd, there's no way it will outdo the Wii on sales.
Game quality-wise, it already has outdone the Wii, but everyone knows that sales are kind.
I was in the local mall last week and Nintendo has a popup shop right off the food court with about fifteen playable Switch consoles. Perhaps to increase impulse sales? It's an interesting device to be sure. Nintendo once again bucks the norm and blurs the line between portable and powerful. If they introduced an LTE accessory they might just upset the phablet ecosystem as well.
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Newbie. I'm still using my Token-Ring MAU.
Video games (and also other gadgets) arent about the hardware.
Users do not care about the hardware, users care about what they can get from it.
Switch is a *great* and *fun* video game, it is all that matters.
I am mostly shopping for my kids. We have had a Wii and WiiU for some time. The upgrade to WiiU seemed logical since it would still play the library of Wii games. Everytime I try to research the Switch to see if there was an extensive game library etc, I constantly keep running across the demo of 1-2-Switch. Im sorry If I offend anyone but IMO the marketing for the Switch via 1-2-Switch is the absolute worst marketing mistake of all times. You dont even look at the TV and you do retarded shit like pretend to shave or milk a fucking cow. I am 46 years old and I shave... every .. f-ing.. day. I sure as hell am not excited watching a damn video where they boast NOT looking at the TV. ... thats called a board game and they cost $20 on average. I see no path for backward compatibility and really don't see a point in buying the same titles in switch format just to keep playing them. Anyone have any experience?
Many good games deserve to be ported - XCX, 3D World, Donkey Kong - especially with Nintendo killing Miiverse.
When I was a kid and did something wrong, Dad used to tell me to go out back and pick a switch. ... kids these days would probably get excited to hear that.
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Uh... considering there's only one major gaming company that is keeping the $60 microtransaction based games to a minimum, they sure look like the least evil company right now!
I'm sorry you have no joy in life, and nobody around you actually likes you (even though they may pretend). It must be hard, so you lash out. It's ok, buddy. One day you'll grow up enough to allow yourself to have fun with the rest of us. :)
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Co-op Heretic, Doom deathmatch, WarCraft 2. (Duke3D and StarCraft weren't out yet)
This would be funny if Nintendo was a garbage gaming company. But it turns out they are the pinnacle of game development.
The hardware is not so underpowered compared to the 2013 era PS4 and Xboxone. You see the mario like additions here with newer music
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... is still a Hitler. No?
..a serious gamer would be somebod doing e-sports. As in: Not for the fun anymore.
Which, I think is stupid, and like dancing for architecture, but hey, everyone can do what he likes.
But I think what he means is precisely what you know he means: "games" that make iCD look like way out there in terms of interactivity. 100% linear rail shooters like Call Of Dut series; things that hold your hand so much, you waant to beg it to release it and just let you play for even one second; overly "cutesy" mobile games that treat you in a way that would make a retarded child feel insulted (aka iOS-likes); graphics demos that pretend to be games; and the huge load of dreary always-the-same industrial cubicle slaves assembly line crap with no heart nor soul that you can shovel like coal and still be drowned in.
So put a plug between those pathetic top cunt flaps of yours.
They'd only be excited the first time you do that. Which is why you ought to remember to videotape it.
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It would've outdone the Wii already if it wasn't for shortages. And if Nintendo figures out multiplayer components - which is something they should've solved a long time ago already -, releases the virtual console already and brings more general entertainment apps to cover tablet-like functionality (it already has Hulu, but it must bring others like Netflix, YouTube, etc), it will far surpass Wii sales. Because it'll essencially replace Android tablets. They can easily engulf an entire product category if they offer enough functionality.
The road is clear, the architecture is favorable, and it should be easy enough for Nintendo to make the Switch an indispensable product. It's basically a nVidia Shield TV in tablet form with the backing of a huge gaming corporation... they have both the high end technical aspect on their side plus the game franchise backing.
If they can't take further advantage of that position, it'll be because of pure incompetence.
I don't even know what your rant is about.
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Yes buy it. It will occupy 100% of your free time. The quality of games makes a huge difference. You need a hundred games worth 4 hours of play each, to compare to a game you'd play for 400 hours! Quality over quantity.
Get Zelda. Zelda is like 3 months of the most fascinating game play, when you realize you're finishing it at about month 2, you switch to finding all the shrines and side quests to eke out the last of the game before the big battle in the castle with Ganon. Each Zelda game is very very different even if the characters are the same.
1-2-Switch is a novelty thing, a Christmas party game no more.
For middle kids get Mario Odyssey, still playing this now, I've done the main quest thread, and now I'm going back and opening the cubes to unlock the extra moons, which in turn unlocks extra levels.... Another 2-3 months to fully do this game. Again, amazingly inventive, new, different, not a port of old game. Lots and lots of gameplay.
For younger kids get Mario Kart. Loads of fun, really easy to get into, if you have Mario Kart on the Wii that's good enough now
Splatoon.... disappointing, it has no split screen two player mode, you need 2x Switches to play it, waste of money in single player quest mode. Don't bother.
ABSOLUTELY upgrade from the Wii U. Just two titles alone have pretty much filled all my spare time since it came out, and I'm waiting/delaying to get Zelda DLC2 because I still haven't finished Mario Odyssey and don't have free time to spend on the new extensions yet.
I'm sure there are plenty of good games on Switch, but the two big mega titles they launched with it, are really taking up all my time and I haven't yet gone and looked.