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Nintendo Switch to release in mainland China in the future, distributed by Tencent. [Up: More info]
- Thread starter ggx2ac
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If Tencent is truly involved then this changes everything.. you're underestimating Tencent's marketing power and its deep pocket.
Oh damn
Kind of wish I'd known about this, I imported all my consoles from HK for a hefty fee. Oh well
For PS4, there was this backup and restore trick that has been in use since 2015.
For Xbox One, the backdoor was there since 2017. I got my Xbox one S in late 2017 and can switch region already.
Create an NTFS thumb drive with a dummy file in it, plug it to Xbox one, then switch to the region change settings page on the console. It will show all the regions instead of only China.
Nah I know plenty. Just saying that most people into games in china aren't waiting on an official release. I'm sure it'll do fine officially but don't expect crazy official numbers coming out of china.
I'm just guessing it'll affect more the people who can't bother to screw with their VPN to get that online unblocked.
You think tencents value will be letting people in china play switch online?
Switch online is not (wholly?) blocked at this moment. I can access the switch store and can play Tetris 99 for example. It's just slow and not very stable. Having an official presence would help immensely of course.
for a consumer, it wouldn't be its only value but it would be important. On a company standpoint there's no doubt Tencent's involvement just makes Nintendo's efforts that much smoother regardless of the possibility of helping navigate Chinese online infrastructure.
I'd guess Switch Online may have its own servers in China, Tencent certainly has the resource/infrastructure to deliver that, they're fiercely competing with Alibaba in the cloud computing after all.
I'm also hopeful we'll see more Tencent games getting ported to the Switch, the CoD mobile game is actually great.
very few publisher understands Chinese market as Tencent does, and Nintendo can benefit a lot from Tencent's influence from 1bn+ wechat/wegame users all the way up to the central government
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I agreed Tencent will host the Switch Online service no doubt. I just don't know if it will tackle the issue of "limiting region free access" and "content blocking", or I guess it'a handled by the ISPs there.
There's also the Taiwan market too. For the SE Asia markets they have different distributors. I recall this during Pokemon 3DS era since Singapore and Philippines had their own Event Pokémon serial codes or whatever.
Not the full 3M, but if they expected to sell 500-800k console or in that range, that plus the lacklusters sales of the first half 2018 could have a weight in their reduction (explaining why they don't went from 20M to 18.5M for exemple)
Don't expect much from this, I've been living in China for the last eight years (and visiting since 2008) and there hasn't been a dedicated hand-held that has been popular here since the PSP was huge. I ocassionaly still see people paying vitas and once in a blue moon a will see someone with a switch. The rise of smartphones completely killed dedicated hand-helds over here.
The same way Riot(owned by Tencent) maintains LoL while Tencent maintains Arena of Valour at the same time.
Besides, Pokemon Go is a Ninantic/TPC venture, pretty much all Nintendo does is pocket a cheque(and suffer stock market losses ;)), so its not like they have much to say on it.
They'd have to reskin aye.
Fortnite skins that feature skulls are allegedly censored or changed to mask the skeletal features.
More information from WSJ
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Update:
Some quotes from the WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/articles/nintendo-seeks-to-sell-the-switch-in-china-11555581221
Some quotes from the WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/articles/nintendo-seeks-to-sell-the-switch-in-china-11555581221
Their stock is actually up +12.60% right now. It has me considering selling off because it made me a lot of potential money...
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NTDOY?p=NTDOY&.tsrc=fin-srch-v1
This seems pretty huge?
Tencent is massive and I think Switch would be their first time partnering with one of the big 3.
Tencent is massive and I think Switch would be their first time partnering with one of the big 3.
Not many details so far. They mention NSMBU specifically as being approved.
"The Department of Culture and Tourism in Guangdong province has given Chinese gaming giant Tencent permission to distribute a Nintendo Switch console with a test version of New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe. It will be the highest profile console title launch in that country in years."
http://fortune.com/2019/04/18/nintendo-switch-china/
"The Department of Culture and Tourism in Guangdong province has given Chinese gaming giant Tencent permission to distribute a Nintendo Switch console with a test version of New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe. It will be the highest profile console title launch in that country in years."
http://fortune.com/2019/04/18/nintendo-switch-china/
I assume NSMBU has some skeleton enemies right? I forget. GONNA HAVE TO CENSOR THOSE CARTOON BONES.
edit: lol someone said same exact thing in the already posted thread
edit2: the second thread got moved into this one, so the first edit is referring to this very thread
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Teaming up for Tencent for mobile games may be the bigger news. Grats to all the stock holders that bought it low, this is what they needed to move the needle to get back to early 2018 levels (still quite a ways to go though). I was doubtful they had anything in the pipeline that could make a splash like this.
The stock is still down yoy significantly. I bought what I have right now at an average of $35, but it was up at $58 in February 2018 (and is now at $44).
A new button combo backdoor has been released for PS4s as well, no need to backup and restore from a non Chinese system.
Based on my time living there...the Tencent partnership could make this the first viable (LEGAL) console there. You can find everything on the grey market there so its not like if you want a PS4 or Xbox you can't get one but it's all grey market resellers.
You'd see DS's everywhere back in the mid 2000's when I was there for 2ish years.
You'd see DS's everywhere back in the mid 2000's when I was there for 2ish years.
I was pissed off at myself for not selling at 55 bucks which I'd always set as my target. I own half of my holding at 30 dollars and half at 14 dollars so I'm still well up on the deal. I'm going to hold out for 50 bucks and then sell out I think.
The only time in my life I have ever sold at the exact peak of like a multi-year cycle was with NTDOY last year. I sold at $57.90 and didn't buy back in until November 2018.
It should hit $50 again this year between the Switch success and mobile Mario Kart.
Nintendo stocks are so weird. In my opinion they are very undervalued, but I have very little knowledge on how it works.
Whoever shorted them last year made a great call, despite being an amazing year as a costumer.
I was half expecting this ever since Arena of Valor was announced on Switch, but yeah, it's big now that it's confirmed and the partnership might expand to mobile.
Mario Kart Tour in QQ Speed mobile skin soon?
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This seems pretty consistent with other players. Sony's price is also off peak and roughly equovalent to what.they were at same.time last year.