Nintendo Switch sells like crazy

beans100 said:
Pfffft, rich people
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+1 lol :D Sorry but im not biting now on the Switch. Im rather waiting. Just got a Wii U for cheap, so the kid can still play the wii and wii U titles for a year or so. Nintendo are known to disappoint you, so its wait and see what happens.

Plus Zelda breath of the Wild is still on the Wii U ;)
 
Lupus said:
Not painting the Wii as a failure, I'm just saying for a lot of people it was a novelty console. My folks even had one, my gran old age home had one.
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Yeah, it's true that it was a novelty console for some people, but it still doesn't detract from the fact that it had an awesome library of games for people with families. I can't even think of another console ever that had so much to offer in that way. If we weren't getting use out of still, at least a few times a week, I would have sold it on by now. I love to come downstairs and see my 7 year old son sitting on the couch playing Mario Kart Wii with his friends.
 
cerebus said:
Yeah you didn't like Wii, I got that. If it makes you feel better, I also didn't like the way that a lot of Wii games were dumbed down compared to N64 and Gamecube. It wasn't so much a console for people like me, but it's just about perfect if you have a family with kids - it was super cheap, durable, and it had an amazing library of family games. Even smaller games like Kirby, WarioWare, New Mario etc are amazing for the children.



:wtf: how can any console game possibly sell better than a bundled game? You can't really paint the Wii as a failure though, because it clearly wasn't.
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agree with this.. Think many of the hardcore gamers are disappointed by the Wii, because they are comparing it to an Xbox or Playstation. Its not that kind of console and its really not intended to be that way. Its got some really nice titles for not only the kids, but for the entire family.
 
cerebus said:
There were plenty of good games. Mario Galaxy 1&2, Xenoblade Chronicles, Donkey Kong Country, Skyward Sword and Twilight Princess, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Metroid Prime 3, RE:4, Sports Resort, New Super Mario Bros, No More Heroes 1&2. It had an awesome library of family games and I can still find new games for the kids to play.
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They missed a lot of opportunities with the wii, at the end it was a great console but took such a long time to get there. Online was terrible at a time when it was getting a lot of focus on other consoles, the retro console was so limited and expensive that people just hacked the will and played games like that. The really good games came out at the end and even then you had to fight to get them. I imported Xenoblade at R600 and could have sold it at a profit but mistakenly only sold it at R450, I have seen others trading that same game years later for well over R600. Thats not the only one - The last story and Pandora's Tower were also great games and just never made it here... and in some cases never made it to the US either. Its like they didn't want people to have it.
I think that's actually the reason for the wii U's failure, no one wanted to take a chance on it.

My Wii still works, about to get my 3 year old started on it. There is still a few games I need to try so always looking to pick them up second hand.
 
Nerfherder said:
They missed a lot of opportunities with the wii, at the end it was a great console but took such a long time to get there. Online was terrible at a time when it was getting a lot of focus on other consoles, the retro console was so limited and expensive that people just hacked the will and played games like that. The really good games came out at the end and even then you had to fight to get them. I imported Xenoblade at R600 and could have sold it at a profit but mistakenly only sold it at R450, I have seen others trading that same game years later for well over R600. Thats not the only one - The last story and Pandora's Tower were also great games and just never made it here... and in some cases never made it to the US either. Its like they didn't want people to have it.
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Yeah I totally agree. The first ~3 years of Wii you didn't have so many great games and a lot of wagglefest gimmicks, but it picked up a lot by the end.

I think that's actually the reason for the wii U's failure, no one wanted to take a chance on it.
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Wii U actually had a massive launch with like 30 games and it looked like good 3rd party support. The problems with 3rd parties really came because of the terrible architecture which had a serious CPU bottleneck, and Nintendo's useless marketing. The whole gamepad thing just wasn't well executed at all; it sapped computational power from the machine which was already underpowered, and there were few reasons to justify it. And then I think even Nintendo realized it was a mistake and decided to pull back their focus to the 3DS and the upcoming Switch, so Wii U just languished. But even then, if you pick up Wii U now you have access to a fantastic library of games.

My Wii still works, about to get my 3 year old started on it. There is still a few games I need to try so always looking to pick them up second hand.
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Yeah I've homebrewed mine because it takes like half an hour to do and.. it makes 'finding' games much easier.
 
cerebus said:
Yeah I totally agree. The first ~3 years of Wii you didn't have so many great games and a lot of wagglefest gimmicks, but it picked up a lot by the end.



Wii U actually had a massive launch with like 30 games and it looked like good 3rd party support. The problems with 3rd parties really came because of the terrible architecture which had a serious CPU bottleneck, and Nintendo's useless marketing. The whole gamepad thing just wasn't well executed at all; it sapped computational power from the machine which was already underpowered, and there were few reasons to justify it. And then I think even Nintendo realized it was a mistake and decided to pull back their focus to the 3DS and the upcoming Switch, so Wii U just languished. But even then, if you pick up Wii U now you have access to a fantastic library of games.
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Might actually get one but I think I'll rather just save up for the Switch. It feels like they finally got the concept right... just need to nail the games and not make the same mistakes. I don't care if its just 1st party and Indy devs, people will play that. If they want to make Skyrim and BF then fine but thats not a reason to get the Switch
cerebus said:
Yeah I've homebrewed mine because it takes like half an hour to do and.. it makes 'finding' games much easier.
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AND there is still homebrew support - its still worth doing. I did mine the other day.
 
Nerfherder said:
Might actually get one but I think I'll rather just save up for the Switch. It feels like they finally got the concept right... just need to nail the games and not make the same mistakes. I don't care if its just 1st party and Indy devs, people will play that. If they want to make Skyrim and BF then fine but thats not a reason to get the Switch
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Yeah I'll definitely get Switch this year sometime. Zelda BOTW is a good enough reason for me to buy it now actually, but by end of 2017 we'll have a top notch library:

- Zelda BOTW
- Mario Odyssey
- Snipperclips
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
- Arms
- Splatoon 2
- Xenoblade 2
- Dragon Quest XI
- Snipperclips
- 60 indie games like Fast RMX, Shovel Knight, Harvest Moon, Rime, Steamworld Dig 2, Snake Pass, Binding of Isaac, Overcooked, Ittle Dew 2, etc...
 
Baxteen said:
so wiht the portability of the switch.

and the fact Nintendo owns pokemon.

I wonder if they are going to release any of the current pokemon games for the swith....
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It is likely that Generation VII will come to the Switch, also a updated Sun and Moon.
 
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Nintendo need to bring back console games like this again. I remember having both of these back in the 80"s.:)
 
Don't be the guinea pig!

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So it releases with 5 games? Sigh Nintendo you've done it again, also the screen gets easily scratched. Zelda runs slower when docked and it only upscales to 900p. The console only has 32 gigs onboard, can't cloud save. Pros it's strangely really good at being portable and the guys say it's probably a better replacement for the DS then the Wii U.
 
Lupus said:
So it releases with 5 games? Sigh Nintendo you've done it again, also the screen gets easily scratched. Zelda runs slower when docked and it only upscales to 900p. The console only has 32 gigs onboard, can't cloud save. Pros it's strangely really good at being portable and the guys say it's probably a better replacement for the DS then the Wii U.
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A quick google
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_Switch_games
I count 15 PAL games on launch day.

The Wii U is certainly not designed to replace the DS. DS is portable, Wii U is not.
Switch is designed to be a middle ground machine, but honestly, with that kind of power and portability come issues. They should really have outsourced the hardware development to a known compact ultrabook company.
 
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I feel sorry for people who bought it at launch and had those issues, I usually always wait for the second or third version to come out when they fixed these issues and ironed out all the bugs.

Also the v2/v3 usually is cheaper too.
 
Heavyonthemagick said:
A quick google
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_Switch_games
I count 15 PAL games on launch day.

The Wii U is certainly not designed to replace the DS. DS is portable, Wii U is not.
Switch is designed to be a middle ground machine, but honestly, with that kind of power and portability come issues. They should really have outsourced the hardware development to a known compact ultrabook company.
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Okay maybe I should have said 5 games people might actually care about. Also I said the switch would be a better replacement for the DS not the Wii U :)
I mean Zelda, some puzzle game that would be fine on Android, a party game that should've been included, two versions of shovel knight, just dance again, old neo geo games and nothing really blow your load or even really showing off the hardware.
Why would you release a console with no games that are actually showing off the hardware.
The Wii had Wii sports which showed off the console.
 
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