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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.
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.
It's a handheld. The dock is just so Nintendo can gracefully exit the console business while saving face.
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The issue I have is Nintendo seems to kill off its online services. I can't play Mario Kart Wii online anymore, Mario Kart 8 still works on the Wii U but for how much longer? The Wii-U had stopped it community thing that I never used. But it still gone.
I am not a big gamer myself so, the XBox or the Playstation doesn't really appeal with me. But Nintendo's cheaper units don't seem to want to handle long term support.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
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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It is, if you browse the Nostalgia Channels on the internet the Nintendo 64 is right there with those guys. The original Wii is actually getting there too.
Nostalgia Device = Device played with (or wish they had) as a kid (Between ages 5-15) when you are 25 years or older.
Paraphrasing Douglas Adams:
Technology created before you were born to a young kid has always been there and are part of the natural world
Technology created from school age - mid 20s are exciting inventions where you may get a career in.
Technology created after that is an Abomination to Nature and society.
So those things that were exciting and sparked your interest as a kid, help bring a sense of nostalgia because they were new and exciting. To date myself. Video Games were always there but when they went from 8bit-16bit bringing 256 colors display was like crossing a threshold into the future. Where Kids today just see all of them as Blocky 2d graphics, and may ask why is this King Gram guys face yellow or pink not skin toned, and when he goes up the screen he becomes a giant and doesn't scale down to size. However I was a bit older when that technology came into place, so it was less exciting then seeing King Gram from a 16 color sprite to a full 256 color with painted backgrounds.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Same reason why most Mac users don't care as much as the hardware as the PC users. We use a Mac for the OS and the software available for it.
That said, I work on a Mac but I game on a PC that's much more powerful. I don't mind Windows, it's just there to run the game and I don't really interact with it apart from that.
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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?
With the right network setup, involving a wifi hotspot with a captive portal and javascript code to mine bitcoin, yes.
Wii sales also eventually slowed down once grannies tired of wii bowling. If Nintendo can keep the momentum up, it has a chance to outdo the wii in the long term.
The DS sold 150% as many units as the Wii, and grannies weren't buying that.
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.
Wii was first console I ever bought (mainly for kids though). Prior to wii we had been PC only household. Switch is probably the second console I will buy (again, for the kids primarily).
Switch, just like the Wii, crosses the boundaries and attracts people beyond the unshowered sweaty neckbeard demographic.
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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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this had to do with the host they were using for wii and ds and will supposedly not happen for u and 3ds, though i'm not going to hold my breath. the problem i have is that switch's online service is paid. nintendo having their online free was massively appealing to me. especially as mario karts 7 and 8 are the only games i play online anyway.
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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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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I mainly agree with you but when the hardware prevents you from getting games coming out on other systems it IS then important because it's limiting what you can play.
It is only different because I don't want to pay an extra hundred dollars for a different gaming system I won't use other then to watch Netflix.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.