They’re sure to reach 50mil in the 1st year with those great Neo Geo games coming out what seems every day
Most feet don't care about video games.
Oh no, now the Sony fans are going to come out of their holes and start their fanboy bickering.I wish Sony and Microsoft focused on gameplay more like Nintendo does.
Sine Mora ExAnyone notice a complete lack of games from THQ-Nordic? Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, etc. They made ganes for every system. I mean EVERY system. Except the 3DS because DS versions already existed.
Yeah but I was talking more about their game show video games. They usually release those games soon after the launch of a system.Sine Mora Ex
"7.63 million units from launch to today" and they reckon they can basically double that in Christmas?
That had better be a hell of a game push
10 million (or an extra 2 and bit million units being sold) would be a bit optimistic but I could see it. Still no way I can get to nearly 7 million.
You're forgetting that the Switch is very much still in demand, and it will continue well into 2018 as people try to get their hands on the new hybrid console. After the holiday season, without a good launch lineup the rest of the year, the Switch might end up just like the Wii U. (god forbid, I love this console!)"7.63 million units from launch to today" and they reckon they can basically double that in Christmas?
That had better be a hell of a game push
Zelda is going to be what 9 months come Christmas? Has any game, much less one with as much advertiser push as it had, ever made a dent that far in the future, especially with no DLC/expansions/sudden multiplayer mode to reinvigorate it? Equally I don't know if it has that much pull with the kids -- I could see pokemon playing here but Zelda is more well liked and nice than considered even vaguely essential. Going further we are still also talking about additional console sales -- many that want such a thing probably already have it, I still maintain most that reckon the switch has promise already have it and I would not be surprised to see more waiting for a switch lite/switch XL or something (Nintendo games stay pricey but they are hardly rare). That is before we consider that those wanting to play doom and those wanting to play skyrim (we will assume on the go is a big draw) probably have massive overlap in their audience as well. Slim possible exception if Doom fixed its multiplayer and it then becomes the main alternative to Splatoon a la what a lot of N64 devs tried to do, though I would suspect that becomes more people trying to extract value from a Switch than buying a Switch to play it.
I agree Sony and MS first party showings are weak, not that I am complaining at all (exclusives are bad from where I sit) but at the same time is Nintendo getting the third party stuff (at anything resembling the same quality -- the wii had cod but where PS3 vs 360 was probably more "what do your mates have?/do you want to pay for Live?/Which controller do you prefer" the wii was an also ran in this regard) they are getting? Zelda, Mario, Halo, Forza, Uncharted and such are nice but COD, Battlfield, Madden and FIFA rule the roost. Young Jimmy might enjoy Zelda if he played it but COD is where it is at, and as a parent I imagine COD+ Live/PSN for a year (or indeed game from me, Live/PSN from grandma) is a better prospect than a whole device. Speaking of whole new devices you know young Jimmy will definitely like a phone of which there are some notable efforts set to appear ( http://www.techadvisor.co.uk/new-product/mobile-phone/best-new-phones-3613852/ ) with several nice things being far less than a properly kitted out Switch.
LA Noire? Anything Rockstar North makes is huge, everything else is up for debate and this was not Rockstar North. It is also coming out on PS4 and Xbone so it is not like this will possibly be a definitive edition/single second chance to catch something cool like might have happened for some of the Wii U ports.
I forgot to also consider a potentially untapped market a la housewives with the DS and whatever went on with the Wii. I doubt we are going to see housewives come back from phones and tablets any time soon and if the switch was the next wii it would have done it already.
"year one ends in march 2018"
That is still ridiculously optimistic but more plausible than by Christmas, I shall note my potential error in assuming this was calendar year end and not release day + 365/four quarters or financial year or something. I don't know my January-Easter console sale window, games have been doing fairly well though these last few years as devs/publishers try to skip the Christmas glut. I don't think it has ever been huge but months of consistent solid sales do add up. I went back to gamefaqs to look at the release schedule but there was not a lot of info. Not sure what I might extrapolate from E3 and other info but that is a bit more effort than I am willing to put in right now.
I shall also have to look to see if this is some kind of forecast/projection they can be held to account for as well.
I can just imagined Mario grabbing Nathan Drake’s ass lmaoI think the only thing that would stop this seemingly upward momentum is if someone comes out and says a top Nintendo executive "sexually assaulted" them, with something as vicious as a butt grab. Seriously, seeing the Spacey situation, someone can go from hero to zero in 24 hours...tops.
Those who know better know that the Wii U is still the best console Nintendo has ever made, given that it can play just about every single game Nintendo has made over the past 30 years. 1000's of games available for the Wii U, and 15 for the switch. Right now, the switch and it's value for the money hardly compares to the Wii U. Most consumers are idiots.That's already half of the Wii U lifetime sales, in just six months. So, yeah, so much for the naysayers saying the Switch will be a flop.
I was aware of the DLCs but wrote them off as fairly minor as they seem to be that from what I have seen. I was not the one suggesting Zelda would be a system mover either, quite the opposite, and was actually responding to an earlier remark and I am not sure how you read it as such -- that is some serious fanboy blinkers you have going on there.You are aware that Breath of the Wild does indeed have two DLC expansion packs right? The second one yet to release... your posts reak of ignorance, you thought end of the year meant calendar year and not year from release of the system. You also seem to think that BOTW is supposed to be the big holiday system seller... when it's clearly going to be Mario Odyssey, especially when you consider the Odyssey system bundle. If they’re over 7 and half million now, without Mario impacting sales numbers of the system yet, the holiday season around the corner, and 3 more months after that, and no, I don't find it hard to believe they'll hit that 14 million units sold figure in its first year.
As a sony fanboy, they just posted they shipped 68 million units since the launch of the PS4.Oh no, now the Sony fans are going to come out of their holes and start their fanboy bickering.
Saw that earlier, pretty impressive imo. I wonder if they'll beat the PS2 like people were saying. Sounds like your a pretty open minded Sony fanboy if you're considering getting a switch, I was referring to the ones that make fun of the switch and Xbox whenever they get the chance to and only own a ps4.As a sony fanboy, they just posted they shipped 68 million units since the launch of the PS4.
And I will probably buy a Switch myself. There's currently no way to play Xenoblade Chronicles 2, SMTV, Golf Story, and it would be my choice to play Wargroove on.