Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Yes, that and Yoshi are still listed as Spring 2019.

Switch is at one-fourth sales of the target of 20 million sold this year (about 5 million sold). Assuming Nintendo ships the same number of Switch’s as last year this season, they should be at about 12 million at the very least by the end of the December. I could see the Switch selling about 14-18 million any March ending the financial year.

Interesting how Switch sales compared to this quarter last year are actually up despite "Nothing of note" being released.

@IceClimbers for obvious reasons, better games and selections plus Pokemon and several different game bundles, I'm sure hardware will jump in December of course, but what I'm REALLY thinking is the number and type of games coming out in the first Qtr of 2019, plus tax time, by the end of March, people will have recovered from Christmas and even more games than those released in and after October, there will be a sudden huge boost in hardware sales, possibly because a family won't have to spread out a limited amount of cash over a larger blanket, they can just buy a concentrated purchase, a Switch and some games, the end March sales could rival Christmas sales

I mean...2D Mario exists and we know how that normally goes.

@IceClimbers Turns out the Smash Direct is on November 1st.

@Grumblevolcano

There's Treehouse Live after the Smash Direct showing off Yoshi, Pokemon and Diablo 3.

@Grumblevolcano About time.

@Cobalt Actually no, the Switch sold 5 million in the same six months last year. They need just under 15 million more to hit their target of 20 million for the fiscal year, which is just quite possible.

You're being a negative nancy for the sake of it. Even if they do miss their target, they'll be very close to it, and that's still a successful year. So no, the hype isn't "collapsing"

I'm surprised, I thought they would do two more smash only directs, but just this one seems to be it. That's fine by me, can't wait to see whats the last of the game modes

The wording of the tweet is interesting, it says the final Direct before the game's release. That to me sounds like DLC is happening.

@Grumblevolcano You're always reading way too much into it

To me it sounds like it's the final direct before the game comes out.

Ugh, please no DLC. Hard to see a game as Ultimate when it ships without the intended final roster. Or at least make any DLC free, up to a point.

"Everyone. Is. Here!

... Except the people you'll need to pay for"

Don't really care about the Direct, I know enough about Smash for now. Happy to see some Yoshi footage in the Treehouse though; makes me think the release date could well be early spring (or did we know that already?).

@PikPi you do know the "Everyone is here" referred to all previous fighters right?

It has no bearing over any new characters they might want to add later.

@ReaderRagfish Well we did get our first tease of DLC in Smash 4 during the November 2014 Smash Direct. Mewtwo was announced to be a Club Nintendo reward and people saw that as the start to DLC which turned out to be the case.

@Yosheel lmao yes, I know.

I hope they keep at least some secrets... Remember when games had secret characters?

@PikPi I mean we don't know what the big holiday game for 2019 will be other than Pokemon. I imagine Poke + something mature like Metroid or Bayo would be logical.