Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@jhewitt3476 @NEStalgia @subpopz Fine. I just don't want my Switch to be too noisy when I play handheld. Although I noticed that the fan spins faster when I play docked. Maybe because it does not care about the battery then.

@Zuljaras Yeah it runs at higher speed docked both because it's not conserving power, and also because when docked the whole system runs more powerfully (thus 720p vs 1080p output) and gets hotter.

@Octane
Leave it to NintendoLife to glaze over confirmation of one of the biggest AAA titles out there being confirmed for Switch, while focusing on reporting news of a game not coming instead.

If there's a negative angle to be had, they'll have it, and then seconds.

@JaxonH I understand that from a business perspective, clicks equal money and we all know negative articles generates clicks - especially when articles are about Nintendo. However, I do feel that this site seems to push the negative angle against Nintendo a little too much sometimes. From what little I have visited the sister Push Square site, they don't seem to be negative towards Sony/PlayStation though as I said, I don't visit the site enough to know whether that is the case or not.

I get wanting to be impartial and trust me, I try my best to be that way, but always give credit where credit is due.

@ReaderRagfish
it's good that this site explores its competition, as for propagating negativity against some Nintendo games and products, it's natural, various opinions differ, but can also cause educational and even entertaining debate.....

Nintendo and it's products are NOT Jesus Christ perfect and opinions against Nintendo or its products and policies is not treachery......

at least not in America.

@ReaderRagfish Segalife more like.
I sometimes feel that'd be the name of the site had the dreamcast not failed 😋

@Illusion I wonder, if the Dreamcast not failed, would Microsoft have entered the scene? And if so, would it be able to sustain 4 competing systems? Wonder who’d have lost out. So many what ifs but a curious scenario that could easily have happened.

I think there's a difference between tipping the hat to competition and sharing in the excitement of other non-Nintendo products, as well as occasionally spotlighting a concern or gripe when it's warranted...

I think there's a difference between that and what, at least at times, seems to be a proactive attempt to meet a quota of negative articles in an effort to portray this site as being fair and balanced, when in reality it's nothing more than affirmative-action for complaints.

I don't think there's anything wrong with them reporting on the Fallout 76 situation. It's news. Good or bad, it's noteworthy and should be reported. But to omit the very major news of Wolfenstein which is far, far more noteworthy (and exciting!) would almost have to be intentional, perhaps out of some misguided guilt trip for exceeding their positive article daily cap?

Idk. Maybe everything I'm saying is nonsense. But it does seem like they go out of their way to spotlight a certain number of "I feel so upset this isn't coming to Switch" articles.

@ReaderRagfish
I ended up getting the PS 2 myself, now the power and ports wasn't my problem, it was the games themselves, it just didn't have enough games, I felt even after 2 years I wasted my money, I spent 80% of my time play my PSX games on it

@subpopz Functionality outside playing games has been a recurring trend of helping consoles since the PS1 era yet the Switch is doing well despite ignoring that approach. Over 1 and a half years old and no sign of stuff like internet browser, Netflix, Youtube, etc.

Switch is pretty much a gaming machine and nothing else and it's doing well with that approach.

Just saw a Pokemon Let's Go ad on adult swim.

Just saw a Pokemon Go player walking on the street today.

About 1.5 hours until Nintendo's earnings report releases. Anyone wanna make a quick prediction on Switch hardware sales through the end of September?

Edit: For reference, it was at 19.67 million as of the end of June.

@IceClimbers It will be another 1.5 million Switch hardware sales. I am not expecting anything major, in fact perhaps even that number is too high. I am not optimistic about what Nintendo are about to say.

I predict it'll be at 21 million by the end of September and Xenoblade 2 would have sold 1.7m copies.

They're out. As of September 30th, the Switch has sold 22.86 million. This means it's surpassed the GameCube's lifetime sales of 21.74 million.

So an increase of 3.19M since June? Good numbers, and pretty cool to see it pass the GC already.

It'll be interesting to see how it'll fare this holiday with both Pokemon and SSB releasing.

@19Robb92 Should do very well. Last holiday season it did about 7.24 million. This holiday season has a heavier hitting lineup in comparison (Super Mario Party, Pokemon Let's Go, Smash Bros Ultimate vs Super Mario Odyssey, Skyrim, Xenoblade 2). Add on the fact that last year's 4 big system sellers should continue to sell systems and people are aware of NSMBU Deluxe in January, then yeah it could definitely hit like 10 million sold this holiday.

Based on what I've read, it seems like Mario Kart is eventually gonna overshadow Mario Odyssey's sales. Which I guess is not surprising, looking back at the Wii era.

But yeah, Nintendo having a slower 2018 is reflected pretty hard in terms of what the big sellers on Switch are (even if most of this year's games have sold better than most versions of their franchises). But at the same time, it doesn't mean anything until we see how things are going in the last couple months of this year.

Also, 3DS games sales might be dead. Or at least are clearly are on their way out. Hilariously, the best selling 3DS game of this quarter was 310,000 people deciding to buy Mario Kart 7 in 2018.

https://gonintendo.com/stories/321509-nintendo-fy3-2019-2nd-q...