Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Knuckles-Fajita Labo 4 is coming.

@Octane Personally I dont care. LABO 1 is sat unfinished.

@Knuckles-Fajita I don't follow PushSquare because I don't care too much about PlayStation as much (since all the third-party games they get are much better on PC), but people white-knighting Sony for introducing microtransactions (after blatantly saying "NO MICROTRANSACTIONS" multiple times) are just as bad as people white-knighting Nintendo for removing DKC: Tropical Freeze from the Wii U eShop.

At least when Pocket Camp introduced lootboxes, you can slightly make the argument that it's a F2P game so they need to make ends-meet somehow. Still sucks, but that's something.

The bits highlighted here tell the story I think....

20 million consoles in two years? Psh.

This thing is doomed.

The first numbers are 3DS new titles and the second are Switch software units....your point @skywake?

@EvilLucario I compare fanboys to cheap chocolate. Its very accurate

@Knuckles-Fajita Think he's proving the point that the Switch is not doomed and is doing pretty dang well

@EvilLucario Okay but how is comparjng the volume of new software released for 3DS this quarter...to total software sales for Switch this quarter....a comparison?

Surely youd compare sales to sales not "How many got released on one to how many sold on the other"

@Knuckles-Fajita Heck if I know.

(Also I really need to figure out how to properly figure out BBcode here)

I'm not comparing them, I'm highlighting them. Put simply:
1. Switch software sales are up year on year, dramatically
2. 3DS is pretty much not getting any new content at this stage

Not news, not surprising... but it says a lot about where Nintendo is at

Oh, I misread. My apologies.

Anyway I'm gonna just replay Dark Souls... er, I mean Crash N.Sane Trilogy on Switch while I drink salty fanboy tears across the Internet.

@EvilLucario Wouldn't it be sweet if Dark Souls came out on Switch? What if it even had an amiibo? Wouldn't that be cool?

@Knuckles-Fajita I thought you were pretty excited for that one.

@Octane And then it bombed for me. Its far too shallow and if I want a visual programming suite...I have better options.

I like whenever investor reports come out because like two people are silly enough to imply Nintendos in any danger then the other 1000 posts are just the "doomed" sarcastic posts

Everyone is talking about how long the Switch has been out, as if that matters. It competes in the 8th generation of video game consoles and the numbers must be compared to the other 8th gen consoles, regardless of the fact that they had a head start.

@Agriculture It really does matter, though. Because context actually matters.

Just as it won't make any sense to talk up the "decline of Sony" when the PS5 initially sells less than the Switch does mid-life. Because you have expectations for console sales in the middle of their life cycles versus the beginning.

@Knuckles-Fajita I told ya so?

That's a shame to be honest. What did you think of the quality of the toys(?) themselves? And the games?

@Agriculture I hope that's sarcasm. You can't always compare consoles 1 to 1.

Except that it's also doing pretty well on that measure. It's already over half the install base of the XBOne and at the rate both are going it'll overtake it by the end of 2019. In terms of current sales it's selling only behind the PS4 in terms of hardware and software sales. Software sales it's quite a bit behind but that makes sense given how far ahead of everything else the PS4 is in terms of install base. But hardware sales it's pretty damn close.

So I'm not sure what your point is here....

The next Xbox is certainly gonna be interesting to keep an eye on, though. Remember that Microsoft is preparing for the future with their studio acquisitions and stuff. And if they leverage their backwards compatibility initiatives to allow complete backwards compatibility with all Xbox One games with no strings attached, that's a pretty good incentive if Sony fumbles up somewhere there.