The Nintendo Switch

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VaLLiancE said:
I like my list
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Looks like a pretty boring list of decades old franchises. Ninty's chart shows lots of unique games like Snipperclips, Splatoon 2 (still a fresh experience compared to the usual buffed soldier shooter), 1-2 Switch (joy con fun #1), ARMS (joy con fun #2), Just Dance (joy con fun #3).

So you are gung ho about a new system with a mobile focus, new joy con gaming and your focus is standard franchise games? lol
 
Of course you do....it's Nintendo
Simple fact is MS and Sony had a lot more games to offer while this as said before you could just buy a U plus zelda for over £100 less than the Switch itself.


Yes Zelda will score highly but will it get non zelda fans buying the console? Not exactly been known as a system seller.

Mario on the other hand is.
 
The Wolf King said:
Of course you do....it's Nintendo
Simple fact is MS and Sony had a lot more games to offer while this as said before you could just buy a U plus zelda for over £100 less than the Switch itself.


Yes Zelda will score highly but will it get non zelda fans buying the console? Not exactly been known as a system seller.

Mario on the other hand is.
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Xbo didn't have a better launch lineup though.
 
The Wolf King said:
Every other console ever had a better line up than this. 1 game doesn't change the fact that it's a poor line up
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When you have zero launch AAA rated titles vs the goty for that launch year(we know Zelda will get it)
it does. At the least 2 AAA rated GOTY exclusives will be released on the switch in less than its 1st year.
 
Soooooo you don't know what AAA game means then?

Oh and RDR2 says hello...then shoots link in the face
 
Ahhhh so zelda will be the goty on switch...yeah most likely.

Can't see ARMS stealing that one....
 
Zelda will be goty period maybe not the only game that gets that nod this year but we don't think a xbox exclusive will get more attention do we?
 
That would be true if they had only sold a few thousand copies or less
 
With 25 million XBO's in the wild I hope it sold more than thousands...
Heck if it doesn't reach 3 million + it will be considered a failure sales wise and that's without counting the scores(which I am guessing a late 70 to early 80 average)
 
Crackdown 1 and 2 sold around 1.5M each.

With that logic PS4 games should be selling a lot higher than they are with 50M consoles sold
 
Yeah but should be up to around 30M at least with those numbers and all those awards...... ;)

Halo 5 has apparently sold around 7m but many try to say its a flop.

Reckon zelda will do around 3M combined on U and Switch
 
Stolen from gaf like ^rollins does...

Miyamoto:
Regarding our software development environment, we have taken the software development
teams for home console systems and for handheld systems, which used to be two different
departments, and integrated them into one, and this has been very beneficial as they are now
developing software as a team in the same environment. In addition, third-party developers who
are making software for PC can now easily adapt that software to work on our platform. In the
current development environment, Iʼd say that it would take less than a year for them to port a
PC game to Nintendo Switch. That ease of software development has also been felt by
Nintendoʼs internal developers. Also, even though game software developers in the U.S. and E.U.
are often said to have superior skills to their Japanese counterparts when it comes to software
development techniques, Nintendoʼs software developers have mastered state-of-the-art
technologies such as Unreal engine, and their skills can now be compared with those of Western
 
VaLLiancE said:
Stolen from gaf like ^rollins does...

Miyamoto:
Regarding our software development environment, we have taken the software development
teams for home console systems and for handheld systems, which used to be two different
departments, and integrated them into one, and this has been very beneficial as they are now
developing software as a team in the same environment. In addition, third-party developers who
are making software for PC can now easily adapt that software to work on our platform. In the
current development environment, Iʼd say that it would take less than a year for them to port a
PC game to Nintendo Switch. That ease of software development has also been felt by
Nintendoʼs internal developers. Also, even though game software developers in the U.S. and E.U.
are often said to have superior skills to their Japanese counterparts when it comes to software
development techniques, Nintendoʼs software developers have mastered state-of-the-art
technologies such as Unreal engine, and their skills can now be compared with those of Western
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Awesome Nintendo! 2004 welcomes you with open arms...
 
One thing that worries me a little about Switch is that the guys at Digital Foundry feel like Switch is an amazing handheld. But already feels dated as a home console.

I'll use my Switch as a handheld 90% of the time. But it's still a little worrisome to hear about no anti aliasing being used at all in the first party games.
 
The Wolf King said:
Yes Zelda will score highly but will it get non zelda fans buying the console? Not exactly been known as a system seller.

Mario on the other hand is.
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Doubt it.

What will get people buying Switches like crazy is if the whole rumble HD, mobile focus and dock and play work out. And people want to spend $300 for that.

Mario and Zelda are arguably the two most well known and iconic franchises in all of console gaming, yet if you look at Ninty's console sales, they have been lousy since SNES, aside from Wii which was more about motion controls, than people buying it and waiting for a Mario or Zelda game.

If Mario and Zelda were that crucial to selling consoles, N64, GC and Wii U would have sold like hotcakes, but they sold poorly.

On the plus side, I can't see Switch selling worse than Wii U's 13 million. I know other consoles have sold worse (Saturn and DC), but if you look at Wii U's sales, they sold about 3M at launch/Xmas, leaving 10M for the remaining 4 years. It was a sliding scope down to about 200,000 units per month globally for 4 years after the first 3M. And that 200,000 avg even includes some sales bumps during Xmas. So if you exclude this, the avg month sales for a non-holiday month was probably 100,000.

If Switch can't beat Wii U's performance, god help us all. And Switch even has more first party titles launching in year one too.
 
Dno69 said:
One thing that worries me a little about Switch is that the guys at Digital Foundry feel like Switch is an amazing handheld. But already feels dated as a home console.

I'll use my Switch as a handheld 90% of the time. But it's still a little worrisome to hear about no anti aliasing being used at all in the first party games.
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Given the rumoured specs, Ninty's track record of gaming systems lately, and the estimated final specs, gamers should know as a console this system was gimped from the start. This is Ninty's third attempt in a row at trying to slide by with a hit system while also trying to get by with as little costs and low end specs as possible in hopes the casual fan don't care. Wii sold 100+ million units. I don't think granny who bought it cared that 360/PS3 were more powerful and had better online.

As a pure handheld, it's the most powerful console maker handheld. I don't know how it compares to the latest smartphone or tablet, but as a console maker successor product, it looks to be above anything else.

What hold it's back is that it's not really that portable at all, has that quirky way you do online through a phone, and it doesn't play any old games. IMO, I don't think many people will be using it much at all as a pure handheld like a DS, but more for portable play to try to do party play as much as possible with joy-con gaming where two people chill out and one guy brings his Switch and they hang out playing a game for half an hour staring at a tiny screen and using tiny gamepads with limited control/buttons on it.
 
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