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Nintendo Is Focused On “Making Sure The Supply Chain Is Robust” For The Switch This Autumn
- Thread starter Pablo Mesa
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This. When I bought my Switch, I assumed one per household would be enough because we can have separate user accounts and multiple docks.
1-2 punch of Smash and Pokemon, my 21 year old's most played franchises, made my future time with my own console seem shaky, so I bought my son his own Switch. The only reason the Wii U is still set up in the living room is because his friends play Smash every day.
PS4 in terms of shipments has had 19.9 in the first year and 19.4 two times so yeah barely. It also sold through over 20 million in 2017 which is even more impressive.
I don't know where you guarantee comes from but you should check it because it's most certainly very wrong.
We had people saying that Switch sales would suddenly fall off a cliff after a record first year because all Hardcore Nintendo fans already bought one.
Guess the spirit lives on in one form or another.
i really don't understand the argument that people only buy consoles for the new software that just came out. that somehow they didn't buy a switch just because every single game that came out up to this point wasn't good for them and now they'll buy one for pokemon. people buy consoles when they can/want/feel like it, and they'll look at a combination of new and already released games. not everyone who wants to play mario/zelda/etc has already bought a switch. if that was true no one would buy ps4 anymore because up to now there HAD to be a game that appealed to the person who wants to buy it.
saying everyone who wants smash already owns switch or stuff like that makes no sense.
tldr not everyone who wants a switch based on the games in the market has already bought the console yet.
saying everyone who wants smash already owns switch or stuff like that makes no sense.
tldr not everyone who wants a switch based on the games in the market has already bought the console yet.
can mods actually make this happen? are year long bans even a thing? are ban bets legal here?
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Do you have any proof for the first statement? God of War on the PS4 shows that even exclusives very late into a console's life-cycle can have a major impact on hardware sales, what reason is there to suggest a massive franchise like Smash wouldn't make an impact on a highly successful console like the Switch's 2nd year?
As for the Pokemon statement, it might not be what the hardcore fans want but it's the casual fans the game is aiming itself at and I'm almost certain they're going to make it a huge hit.
The thing with Pokemon I think it will do well right out of the gate but from what I saw of the game it just looks disappointing and If reviews will reflect that this may hurt it's legs. Smash will Smash but reception of this Pokemon game is key for Nintendo shipments target. Will be interesting to see.
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you are confusing 12 month release with Fiscal Year, going by Fiscal Year, PS4 best year was 20M and that was like the 3rd-4th year.
whats the difference between counting it Fiscal instead ? PS4 release November, if you count in 12 months gap, you are counting in November to November basically 1.5-2 Holiday season per 12 months,. Fiscal Yeat is April to March.
Launch 2013 - March 2014 = 7.5M shipped
April 2014 - March 2015 = 14.8M Shipped
April 2015 - March 2016 = 17.7M Shipped
April 2016 - March 2017 = 20M Shipped
April 2017 - March 2018 = 19M Shipped
where does this kind of reasoning even come from??
Not me. Right now I'm waiting to see if Nintendo will release a Smash edition.
nah, if you want smash that means you already have a switch. you probably don't even know it, but check your room, there's a switch somewhere in there.
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Oh okay that makes sense. I was comparing it launch aligned.
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Out of Smash, Mario Party and the new Pokemon coming this year. Smash will be the biggest seller for the Switch, followed by Pokemon and Mario Party. Pokemon will be a surprise hit, as it's perfectly catered for those who may not have played on a console and this is a good introduction for them to get a Switch.
Its pretty much always like that with Nintendo.
Their "flops" would be seen as successes if it were any other company.
3DS sells 70m units, almost double what XB1 did, and almost 5 times what Vita did, but its a Flop since DS sold 150m.
Nintendo games are flops if they dont sell millions upon million, when other publishers would wish for a Niche game such as Arms/Xenoblade to sell as much as they did.
People only compare to the biggest successes, since just selling ok basically means they should stop selling hardware altogether.
Can't wait for the "at that point no one expected they'd go ahead and release X, Y, Z games so I was right and you were just lucky" post the day they publish FY numbers.
If it ends up being Nintendo AAA quality and not usual Mario Party (Hudson, ND Cube) quality it could be really something.
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I think MP will be an underdog sales, it usually sells in the 2M range, but DS and Wii one sold in the 9M range... also there might actually be a "demand" for this party games in Switch, I mean, 1-2Switch sold 2.29M units in 1 year..
Such is the Nintendo Curse
Funny enough we really dont know anything for Winter (Jan to March) line up
good thing actual success isn't determined by some forum posters cuz otherwise they have reason after reason why any nintendo success story is actually a flop.
I still believe 1-2 Switch should have been bundled with the Switch itself, same as Nintendo Land was with the WiiU Premium for a while. Perfect game to showcase the HD Rumble and the Switch features.
There is no doubt that Smash will move hardware since there is still a ton of people who haven't bought into the Switch and Smash could be a good reason for them to do so, Smash to me at least just seems to have a lot of overlap with the more hardcore Nintendo following that would be more inclined to buy into the system early on to play things like Zelda. Smash will from a software perspective sell a ton of games like Zelda and Mario did before it, I'm just not convinced more people would buy a new games console for it compared to something like Pokemon.
That being said, i am super interested in seeing how Pokemon is recieved and if it can light the world on fire like the games that came before it, Pokemon to me absolutely seems like bigger deal when it comes to selling the Switch console to demographics that haven't bought into it just yet.
So much fan-fiction just for the Switch.
I guess this is another proof of success.
Mario Party 10 had the second biggest opening for the series behind MP8 and sold over 2 million copies on wiiu.
On the last successful console the Wii Mario Party 8 sold over 7.5 million and Mario Party 9 sold over 3 million iirc. Mario party ds also sold over 9 million copies.
I think it's more likely then not Super Mario Party clears Mario Party 10's lifetime sales, I'd argue it's more likely then not by the end of the switch's life it'll be in the top 3 best selling Mario Party games.
When Switch achieves the 20m FY sales the same people will come out again and say it's not enough since it's a hybrid ..so it should outsell the best DS+ Wii years combined.
It never stops xD
I feel like that is a silly question as Nintendo always ramps up shipments during the holidays (so long as manufacturing isn't an issue as it was after launch). Switch is going to have an amazing holiday.
It's better than the Wii days atleast, but I think some people just don't like Nintendo, and that's fine; but the issue is some of these hate that other people are enjoying the Switch. So they act out. I hope it gets better.
Yeah, I don't know what's up with folks speaking this nonsense. But that's not the only angle either. We also get many threads about 'no AAA games on Switch', 'here's a list of indies not coming to Switch', etc. It's like a lot of anti-passion toward the Switch and I'm not sure why. Then, you have the folks who know Switch is not as powerful as the other two consoles but still need to bash any Switch port for not performing as well as the versions on those more powerful consoles - which makes absolutely no sense.
It's better than the Wii days atleast, but I think some people just don't like Nintendo, and that's fine; but the issue is some of these hate that other people are enjoying the Switch. So they act out. I hope it gets better.
yep, i just got one last week. i was gonna wait until Pokemon but rather not risk it. got mine and having fun with it right now (zelda + mario are great).
This is the thing people are sleeping on. If any percentage of these guys buy a Switch, in addition to the already expected sales given the line-up, the numbers will go through the roof. Even a few percentage points is millions of units sold.
Smash on Switch will outsell the lifetime sales of the 3DS version in less than a month, calling it now.
Going from the latest numbers we have for Go, which is from May 2018, if 1% of active Go players buy Lets Go and an switch that would already be 14.7 million units sold right there, which would put Switch well above 20m in the FY, and lets go well above what the usual Pokemon Remake sells, and closing in on New gen level of sales.
Prepare to be surprised. Smash U and 3DS combined sold about as much as switch has save a few million, it will push units in the additional millions unless you think this Smash will flop.
I guess the train of thought here is that because Smash contains Nintendo characters, anyone who cares about the series must have bought a Nintendo console already.
You think Smash on switch will clear 9 million in 2 weeks of December and 2 weeks of January? That's unlikely.
Even 3% of the active user base is 2 million sold and there is no chance people into Go for an entire year are going to be disinterested in a huge expansion on the way they play.
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I'm amazed that a year with Pokemon and Smash is considered a down year by so many, Smash by itself has been an event of every Nintendo console sense Melee.
I mean just out of exclusive totally new games switch has Mario party, Mario tennis, Kirby, smash and Pokémon let's go. That's five first party games, even if none of them are your cup of tea, objectively that's a ton in one year.
I mean just out of exclusive totally new games switch has Mario party, Mario tennis, Kirby, smash and Pokémon let's go. That's five first party games, even if none of them are your cup of tea, objectively that's a ton in one year.
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price adjustment, Canada price was higher than average due to exchange and tax iirc
