GameStop Reveals That Switch Sales Doubled In The Week After E3

Put a Sudden Nintendo Direct before November 2018 about Animal Crossing Switch & Pikmin 4, internet will EXPLODE !

Less to do with Nintendo more to do with PS4 and Xbox having non event e3s too.

Those waiting for announcements before deciding what to buy - Nintendo probably just edged it. Sony are so far ahead they didn’t even try and Xbox was a solid offering and I liked it but it was received well - Nintendo got people talking.

But... but... the shares went down... how...
Eh... oh, well. Guess the doomsayers were wrong, then.
As per usual...

@ThanosReXXX
"But... but... the shares went down... how... "

Prepare for Tsunami of Nintendo Switch demand.

Well every time I go to any GameStop they always pressure me to buy a Switch for some reason it gets really annoying

@GKO900
"Well every time I go to any GameStop they always pressure me to buy a Switch for some reason it gets really annoying"

They tried to force you to buy Switch ?

@GKO900 They are just trying to help people who don't have a switch.... 😊

At the the end of the day E3 is an advert. Adverts put products in the thoughts of consumers. If E3 doesn't drive up sales then you have a dead product with no future.

If course it doubled. Having a presentation about popular games, of which there were many, will generate a lot of talk among normal people. I hate to break it to you, but normal people do not hang out and comment on this page. Nor do they watch E3 or get disappointed about something they never even think about. They simply see an article in some mainstream newspaper that reports on smash bros or Pokemon coming. They think, hey I want to play that, but I might as well buy the console now and get the most out of it before then as well. To a normal person it does not matter that hard core fans already knew about these games.

@Anti-Matter Almost like that you know how some sellers can be persistent to the point of been annoying

@cfgk24 I'm waiting for the non premium version like some people say a Switch mini without joy cons and all that worthless features that raise the price by that time the games should be must affordable I never buy a console at launch price people who wait get rewarded more like last year I bought my PS4 and all games now are super cheap perfect time to buy either a PS4 or a Xbone

Wow, actually surprised by this. The Switch is a GREAT system if you've never owned a Wii U since there are tons of quality games (most of them ports, but still, the new ones like Odyssey and Tennis are amazing too).

But the E3 for Nintendo was not a lot of new information on new games. I mean, Pokémon Let's go is a game we heard about before E3 and we knew from Smash that it's coming this year too.

so that means.. People must be REALLY excited for Mario Party?!

Nintendo would be better off it they weren't a limited company. The only negative for them atm is the share price. They should't care, they make a profit on every hardware unit sold and they're selling as many as they can make.

@Zuljaras I don't. A definitive entry in the franchise that brought together dozens of iconic properties, in the genre that particularly thrives on Switch and fits the console's MSPs like a glove. Why does that seem implausible in the world where even a Mario spinoff racer is a frequent guest in UK top 10?

But I thought Nintendo's five minutes of fame was up.

Everybody I know is getting a switch just for Smash Bros. I recently just just got back into MK8 deluxe with some friends who just brought a switch.

Mk8 and Smash have that much drawing power

Wonder if investors care about things like sales and profits? Gut feelings after E3 sound better to them. Also, Nintendoomed is just so easy to say as you advise your clients to get out while they can before the sales normalize all of a sudden 😋

It's called Fortnite.

@electrolite77 It was a joke.

@electrolite77

This is very true. I had a friend who learned about Fallout 76 through Xbox's presentation. Bethesda had already announced the game, but, since he doesn't keep up with gaming news that closely, he hadn't seen the reveal. Likewise, I imagine many casual gamers learned about the new Pokemon and Smash games from Nintendo's E3.

@Mortenb I agree with you, although I wouldn't use the word 'normal people'. 'Casuals' is better suited in this context.

Could also be at least partially due to the coincidental timing with Summer vacations.

I was trying to help my nephew find Mario Tennis Aces at Target since he got a bunch of gift cards for his bday... sold out at most of the Target stores near me... when's the last time that happened?

They're lying. The Switch is doomed.

@GKO900

Interesting... People that do well in life get rewarded with earning more. Meaning they can play games. I would have hated waiting to playing Breath of the Wild. A movie is much better when you don't know much about it. It being overhyped can kill it and make your expectations way too high.

I am glad I got mine at the start. And they won't be releasing one without removable joycons as then to play in TV mode you'd need a controller which negates the saving. Plus it would cannibalise their profits and sales of Labo.

@WiltonRoots DOOOOOOMED! It doesn't have a single game on it! Like a poor child left in a stocked candy store, there is NOTHING sweet for me to eat in my hand! How can this go on?

@GKO900 I'm also waiting for a non premium version of Xbox One X. You know, the version without a controller, and only an RF adapter so it doesn't have all that extra useless stuff.

@Stocksy I think a lot of it is to do with people waiting to hear more about the next generation consoles that are coming from Sony and Microsoft. Why buy and Xbox One or PS4 now when both have effectively said the next generation is on the horizon. Whereas with the Switch, it only came out last year so I guess people are buying that instead. Just a theory, though probably wrong

@Zuljaras agree. I reckon just the general buzz around gaming would have got people excited. People on the fence and those gamers who needed to “reignite” their passion may have reacted. The Switch offers one simple SKU and plenty of gaming fun at a somewhat reasonable price, so I’m not surprised sales lifted.

Its really simple, Fortnite released. I'd like to think the instant drop of Hollow Knight also helped but really this is just the fortnite effect

@NintendoFan4Lyf Well to me the Joy cons make the Switch more pricey and if a gonna play a console a rather use a pro controller not the joy cons I try them and in my opinion it's an uncomfortable controller

@R4z0rGr1nd3r Well even people who do well in life look for better and cheaper alternatives to save money and to me that's the way to go and I still get to play amazing games if you cannot wait that's ok but for me the wait it's not a problem

@GKO900 So, you basically want a Switch that is not a Switch at all?

All those “worthless” features are precisely what make the Switch the machine it is...

Sorry but I don’t get your logic there.

@NintendoFan4Lyf What I like to see it's a Switch Mini (True Portable handheld) without joy cons no need for those things with the Pro controller and the dock that really boosts the image, now that would be a true hybrid out of the box that would work for anyone they could even sell just the handheld and dock separately or bundle to reach more people with their preferences

@maruse I don't know what you mean to me what makes a Switch it's going from handheld to console any time what makes a Nintendo switch a switch to you!?

It may have something to do with fortnite. I doubt people who want smash went and got a switch months early just to play other games. 2 popular game genres were released during e3 and I think that is why switch saw a boost in sales.

@Medic_alert

We have an idea of how well the Switch is selling though. The NPD reported that the Switch sold 166 thousand units in May (I'm not sure if this includes online sites like Amazon or just brick and mortar stores), which is higher than May 2017. If sales doubled in the U.S. on a whole and not just GameStop, that would mean that the Switch sold roughly 332 thousand units in June.

@GKO900

Hahahaha. So you want it to be cheaper, so you can buy a pro controller that could make it more expensive just to have a switch that you cannot take the sides off (which to me is pretty big as it means less weight when using the kick stand, and also for games like Voez that can be used completely touchscreen) but also that you cannot play any two player games like Mario Kart... The joycons are perfect for games like Blaster Master. I do get it, to a casual the joycons do seem poor. But to anyone that is a gamer, they aren't much different to teeeeeent cutesy nes controllers. Then there are games that use motion control... Try using that with joycons that don't come off the main body. Ahahaha.

But all this is moot. You clearly cannot afford a switch, act like everyone that owns one is an idiot and arrogantly think you are superior. Dude, fair enough if you don't like the switch. It's like Mario... I can see someone saying they don't like the game. And that is taste. We all have our own preferences. Same as it is okay to not like the joycons. But to act like you are better and worse... You make out that they are useless. I hate to tell you this buddy, but that is not something you can claim. They are actually a technical marvel. And work very well for handheld.

But lemme put it this way. With built in controllers you cannot change them. If a switch goes inside the controller you need to send off your whole unit. So you are basically glorifying a false economy. Without removable joycons you might save $60. Now think how much two pro controllers would cost you. And now think of all the drawbacks. I personally just got the pro controller for home and use it in handheld. And I love being able to play poyo poyo Tetris and other games in two player with friends. Truly is nothing like playing a game or two in the Students Union. But in the UK we like our multiplayer games. It's why bomberman (Eric and the floaters) and Worms sold so well here back in the day.

Sales r up do to the fact that every teenager currently wants a way to play console fortnite on the go.
😉

shares new - non news. The switch is in demand that's all there is to it.

@R4z0rGr1nd3r 🤔To be honest I didn't even get what are you trying to say but I did get you on the 2 players, as for that if you separate the controller in my opinion (Remember it's my opinion not a Fact just to be clear) the controller gets worse and uncomfortable for both players I rather buy another pro controller separately if I plan to play with someone else

LOL the real reason was because a pirate tool was launched after E3, people were buying the Switch to jail break it.

@GKO900 For me the Switch is the whole experience. It is to be able to play on the TV or on the go, and it is also to be able to share a controller with someone instantly, and it is the motion based experience that the Joy-Cons offer...

If you think that the Switch only feature is its hybrid nature, I think you are missing the other half of what makes a Switch what it is.

Anyway, for each person it will be different I guess.

@Zuljaras Sometimes people hold back their purchase until they see more of new games. In this case, Smash could have been this little push that pushed them over the edge. Don't forget hardware sales are not just based on upcoming games. They are based on all the available games plus the upcoming one. Zelda and Mario included.

Why are we believing anything Gamestop says without at least some numbers?

This is the company that unwrapped it's new $50 Gamestop exclusive stock of Xenoblade Chronicles games and then sold those games used for $80.

https://www.destructoid.com/gamestop-taking-heat-amid-xenoblade-controversy-259964.phtml

I'm not doubting Switch sales went up after E3, I'm wondering if Switch sales went down before E3 - stock shortages - then just rebounded back to were they had been.

Props to the comments above about Fortnite, that free game probably had more to do with it than either SSBU or Pokemon. If you've waited this long for a Switch for SSBU might as well wait for a bundle, it will almost certainly have one, they bundled SMO last October. I know, I bought one.

This is why it's important to remember the majority of the doomsayers you see on the internet are often a highly vocal minority

Nintendo E3 was awful, precisely because it did NOT show the actual game lineup and what it showed was not shown well. I really doubt Smash alone made Switch sales through Gamestop double. Not least of which because I imagine Smash will be particularly popular as a digital title. I do imagine the scarcity of the LGPika/Eevie and the fact that Amazon doesn't have it up for order with the Pokeball bundle made a significant boost for Gamestop though. I also imagine the Fortnite announcement had a lot of previously phone and tablet Fortnite players eager to play it with real controls which possibly boosted hardware sales.

I'm still not sure I'd tie that result to a successful E3. They could have posted those 3 games on Twitter and sat out of E3 and GameStop wouldn't be able to tell the difference. E3 itself was still poorly planned by N.

@GKO900 Err, but you are missing out on all the switch fun already....

Most likely for Smash.

Don’t see why people would be excited to play Fortnite on the go with Switch rather than standard mobile devices that don’t need WiFi.

Buh buh but Nintendo is doomed!

@Zuljaras Smash may well be a factor but... the other big factor, in my opinion?

It might sound stupid but I can't help but feel it might all be indirect related to a simpler factor...…. : color palette.

Let's put it bluntly. Yes all the other consoles got the big "AAA" titles, the supposed blockbusters millions dollars budget titles of the incoming releases.

And they all looked the damn frigging same.

Dark palette, night blue or brown supposedly "realist" color scheme. Sometimes borderline interchangeable "realist" advanced shaders and lighting effect that... well, a lot of these AAA releases could have been replaced by each others and it's barely have been noticeable for a cursory viewer.

Even Kingdom Hearts, one of the most colorful non-Nintendo series out there, botched it's chances to visually stand out by focusing on a Pirates of the Carribbean segment who chose a dark-hued color palette such that you could have replaced it by some of the less eldritch segments of Bloodborne and some people might not even have noticed!

And that's not mentioning the utter glut of high-rendered horror or "ultra graphic" violence in the "AAA" games.

Meanwhile, before Nintendo itself even showcased Smash, they started their presentation with.... Daemon X Machina. A high-speed mecha game(perhaps the only one at E3 in the first place) whose highly saturated color palette couldn't have been more of a contrast with everything showcased before it for the exception of maybe something like Dragon Quest XI.

And then they just rolled on with it, throwing colorful games after colorful games. Captain Toad, Mario Tennis, Mario Party... the unique graphic style of Octopath Traveller. And Smash Bros, of course. Their darkest game in comparison was probably.... Hollow Knight. Which contrasted nonetheless it's dark style with an unique beautiful hand-drawn cartoon style that very much contrasted the darkness of the style, helping it to stand out nonetheless compared to the "dark and realist" AAA release of prior. Which is probably why the title might be amongst the highest best sellers on the eshop in America when it released. Might still be, though I'd need to check again.

So yeah, in terms of "big titles" Nintendo might have seemed doomed from an outsider's point of view.... but in practice I feel they're the only presentation that did the most important thing one can do at E3: Standing out from the rest, thanks to the art direction of what was actually displayed.

@GKO900 in games like splatoon you’re going to be second to players with joycons, as it’s faster to move a single paddle for looking than moving the pro controller or using the stick. the pro controller is great for platformers or non-motion control games, the joycons are great for motion control games so i switch between them. if they are too small then buy silicon covers to thicken them up. having used both for some time now i actually prefer joycons even though i don’t like the sticks and think the buttons are a bit on the small size, however theyre lightweight and increase my accuracy substantially over the pro controller. imo you’re missing the main feature of the switch when you write off joycons in favor of traditional controllers. in short, it if weren’t for the joycons my switch would be doomed to the life my xbox lives, which hasn’t been even plugged in or powered on except for maybe 3 times in its life, it makes it too much like the other consoles just with different games.

@iMarkU Yup on the available games stuff.

Current owners complains about the "lack" of titles... in regard to new releases. But the fact is a lot of buyers are only buying their first Switch in this 2018 year. Which means they never got to experience the 2017 releases in the first place(except maybe at a friend's place), and thus for them any single ones of the major 2017 is still a more than valid purchase and reason to buy the console in the first place.

It's a thing retailers commented that a lot of people were still buying those games one year after their release. Which, in that regard, perhaps make the "drought" of the first half of 2018 an almost boon for Nintendo; it allowed these clients to still buy Switch consoles on the strength of these "old" games(who have, based on average play time, an incredible "price-to-hour" ratio for someone just getting the console and can be stretched over a LONG period thus)…. thus making the drought almost beneficial for these clients since it allowed them to focus on their "new" purchases of the 2017 titles without being immediately swamped by new titles immediately when they're still playing the bigger offering.

Now, with Captain Toad, Mario Tennis, Mario Party, Octopath Traveller, Monster Hunter Generations... and without even getting into whatever might release in the period between those titles and Smash Bros... these people are starting to get a lot of interesting decent games almost immediately around the time they'll be about to complete stuff like Zelda: Breath of the Wild/etc.

For us early adopter, the wait since December for major releases to put under our teeth was long... but for someone who got a Switch and something like Breath of the Wild or Mario Odyssey only in April or March... this is a party about to start just after being about to finish enjoying the last one.

@Syrek24 People seem to mean strange things when they say "good or bad E3" For some "bad E3" means "I didn't like the games shown." When I say "bad E3" I mean it literally: The E3 presentation was a terrible, poorly planned, hackneyed presentation of low quality marketing, and one of the worst presentations they've done to date.

That has nothing to do with what games were shown and everything to do with what games weren't shown, how the games that were shown were shown, and the pacing of the presentation being a mess. Too much weight was given to one title, with little to no weight given to many titles. Even Fortnite was shoehorned until Treehouse, and plenty of big titles didn't even get a showing on Treehouse while they spent 3 sessions a day watching people uninformatively play Smash. They could have and should have done a better show showcasing the very good lineup Switch has coming and presenting a very well rounded platform instead of pretending they have only one game for it that they feel worthy to sell. Even Pokemon of all things felt back seated.

DB:Fighter Z was a big reveal but was barely given 4 and a half seconds. Smash got nearly 4 hours including Treehouse.

But, yes, my point is not whether Switch has tons of games or that Nintendo is doomed. My point was that the E3 presentation was terrible, not very informative, The biggest problem was that it did not show or adequately show the great number of games the Switch is receiving, making a full lineup look sparse. That's kind of negative marketing when you have the products people want but your marketing can easily convince them you don't.

TL;DR;

-Switch has a solid 2018 lineup with tons of great releases.
-E3's presentation was so terrible that it almost hides that fact, and managed to successfully convince plenty of core fans (the only people really watching the E3 presentation) that Switch has less to offer than it actually does. Thus, disastrous E3. (not to be confused with excellent game lineup on Switch.)

@NEStalgia

Uninformative? What are you talking about? We now know that POR Ike has a different voice from RD Ike - that sounds pretty informative to me!

In all seriousness, I would have liked for them to cut down on Smash and showcase games like Fortnite and DBFZ more too, but at least the casual audience now definitely knows about Smash and Pokemon.

Another example of how opinion on internet sites (including this one) can bey VERY skewed from the general gaming population.

Can't argue against facts, people.

...well, you can. But it's dumb and annoying.

While this is pretty good news, didn't Gamestop have some massive trade-in deals for Switch around E3 time? I specifically recall people able to get up to $200 for a Switch if they traded in PS4s and XBOs, so if that's the case it's hardly surprising Switch sales doubled across Gamestop outlets.

Good news nonetheless, but it's something to keep in mind. Also I wonder what the logistics are behind-the-scenes when any of the Big 3 set up deals like that w/ Gamestop (or if it's something Gamestop does on their own...something tells me that wouldn't sit well w/ the others if Gamestop's the one initiating the deals).

@sauce It's good news but something tells me the giant trade-in deals Gamestop had for Switch around E3 played heavily into these sales results.

@FlimFlam I don't think they doubled nationwide; keep in mind, Gamestop had some REALLY good trade-in deals for Switch during June, better than any other retailer online or B&M.

So I can see how sales doubled in Gamestop locations but maybe didn't double elsewhere (may've seen nice improvements in most other locations though).

Even in the face of facts, the usual suspects are "but, but or whatabout". Makes for entertaining reading.

Good to see those bonehead investors who caused Nintendo's stock to plummet after the E3 Direct were completely dead-wrong. I hate video game investors/analysts, they're the most ignorant idiots who know nothing of the industry and yet their reactions can make or break a company.

But the stock price!!! The stock price, I tell ya!

@FlimFlam If only Treehouse's sessions were even that informative. A few of the sessions they at least provided play tips or details. Most of the sessions they just played Smash, carried on loudly, and, IMO, trying too hard as marketing actors to sell the image of "look everyone, did you see the party environment of fun around this game? HAHA. HAHA. HAHA. We're loud and rowdy HAVING FUN WITH this game SMASH everyone! Look how much FUN this game is for SOCIAL play with FRIENDS everyone!" It was painful to watch.

The casual audience finds out about Smash and Pokemon from the press covering E3. Trouble is they couldn't find much else because the press wasn't given much else to cover! It was no doubt a calculated marketing risk....but given Nintendo's history with calculating on the wrong side of error on that....I'm not convinced it was wise.

If I were to guess they looked at how successful BotW was after the "BotW only" E3 and decided to repeat that formula because "it worked before" rather than figure out how to sell things well now. That's kind of the Nintendo Way (thus WiiU advertising feeling like the Wii advertising with the happy upper middle class "spare TV room" stark white room with the family all playing together ) But they undersold the Switch as a platform in the presentation quite terribly. (To be fair, Sony failed only a little less hard with their presentation. It's like Japan stopped caring. )

Mostly that affects the core audience's perceptions, but also media coverage. E3 still gets to the masses more readily than Directs since "traditional" news outlets cover E3, but not random Directs.

@Hyrule Some of us are just putting the information in the correct frame of reference. Gamestop has a trade-in deal for up to $200 towards Switch. Switch sales double at Gamestops nationwide.

It's not hard to see there's a correlation

Every single investors right now: "Sh*t, I sold all my shares! BUUUUYYYYYYY"

This is the story of the yoyo Nintendo share price.

@kappa_krey or simply in addition to that sales went up as a result of E3 and the great lineup between now and christmas. It's multifaceted not down to one factor.

@Hyrule Given the relatively closed audience E3 proper appeals to, and the equal share of attention by mainstream press on it, I'm not sure sales for console hardware, other than a new hardware launch, is ever particularly influenced by E3 to begin with. Software sales, sure, but even the point of E3, outside the modern core gamer, is for organizing and preparing for HOLIDAY sales. E3 exists in June to give retailers time to clear out inventories through "Christmas in July" to begin their heavy purchasing for November that starts in August. I.E. The consumer marketing message isn't meant to be an instant effect, it's for preparations for Nov/Dec. Thus the focus on "what's coming from now to the end of the year" as Nintendo does is really inline with the initial intention of E3 (not football stadiums showing 10 years of games like certain blue companies are prone to.)

Gamestop saw sales for whatever reason they saw, but it's pretty unlikely hardware sales on Switch spiked in June due to Nintendo's showing of Smash and Let's Go Pikachu at E3. The net uptick would be for Q4 were it to exist. If any platform were to have a hardware uptick stemming from E3 it would be MS, a platform previously assumed to be dead/near-abandonment showing a renewed long term commitment, aimed right at the core E3-watching crowd would be more likely to spark an immediate hardware sales increase than any non-launch E3 year in the past for any company. But even their numbers would be skewed since they were also running a sale on the hardware (with the first ever discount on the premium SKU which might tip people waiting for a sale to buy.)

@Saego of course we are excited about Mario party they ditched the horrible vehicle form.

And this is why you never listen to the "the stocks have gone down" and Nintendoomed crap from all over the internet

@Hyrule Pretty much agreeing w/ NEStalgia on this one. E3 may've been a factor but a very small one at most, and in all likelihood nowhere near the factor as a $200 discount towards a new Switch by trading in old PS4s and XBOs.

Which, hey, it worked and that's good. I'm still curious about the logistics behind those kind of trade-in deals (who starts them and for how long, what reimburstments Gamestop gets for basically taking a hit on each Switch sold w/ the trade-in, etc.), but I figure we'll see stuff like that in the future w/ all three consoles from time to time.

@ThanosReXXX Stocks tend to be as arbitrary as it gets it comes to Nintendo, and other companies.

Good press, stock goes up; bad press, stock goes down.

Good press, stock goes down; bad press, stock goes up.

It always seems pretty random unless it's about the most obvious announcements, like Nintendo's various mobile phone titles.

@Mortenb,

Exactly,the fourum posting core minority will never concede that they are not indicative of the overall gaming and mass market.

@Andrew5678 I wasn't expecting that anyone would actually take my comment seriously. It was pure sarcasm. And I'm in sales & marketing myself, so I already know how all of this works. No offense meant, though. Just sayin'..

Did Gamestop say Switch sales doubled the week of E3, or the week after E3?

Because Gamestop had a $250 XBO/PS4 => Switch trade-in deal during the week of E3, which I'm sure a lot of people took advantage of.

@HobbitGamer Funnily enough, my parody post was pretty much replicated in all seriousness by a few people later on. It's almost like I knew how predictable some of the comments would be.

Hilarious that they said switch sales doubled but investors are all stupid for some reason and the stock plummeted. 🤷‍♂️

Doubled from what? What were sales the week prior?

Let's be honest here; Fortnite single-handedly saved Nintendo's E3, not Smash Bros., a game that is months away, and one that everyone and their mother knew was coming to the system. Sure... MTA, the two Pokemon games, Hollow Knight, and Paladins played a small role, but Fortnite took home the Crown.

@Stocksy Sony is so far ahead they can literally treat their customers like hostages (a la Fornite account scandal) and it still doesn't matter.

@otissprings People'll remember this stuff when PS5 comes out however, and it could hurt them around that time. We'll see though.

@rjejr GS waited a few weeks before they did that...I got my copy at regular price.

(not excusing them but they didn't just ship "used games" to stores on day 1)

TIME TO DUMP THE STOCK!

how many switch units have been sold in total at this time?

@kappa_krey
maybe alot of xbox one users jumped over tot he switch. i dont think somebody with a ps4 will trade his console for a nintendo switch. the ps4 is going strong with mayor titles it is not as boring as the xbox one at this moment, wich was a mayor bore from the start. i even trade it for a ps4, while i got a love for the microsoft brand.
it is just a console with boring games, realy a let down after the epic xbox360

@Medic_alert it would mean a lot less if Switch was selling at the same rate Wii U did. When talking Wii U, it would double from 5 to 10. With Switch, it's more substantial, even coming from a single retailer.

Yesterday there was an article claiming that Switch sales were ‘sluggish.’ Which is it?

Well, well, well. Investors believe in the stock that is important. Announcements were all about the fans, despite the fact that a lot were unhappy because what games they want didn't show up yet. It didn't make people not want to buy a switch, because other games they like are coming out soon.

The Switch is still selling well because a lot of people like it, is has and despite rabid complaints online, is still getting a lot of great games. Big retail releases down to small niche indie titles and everything in between.

I know a lot of people seem to think that, just because their highly specific wish list isn't being filled that means the Switch has no games and is Wii U 2.0, but that simply isn't true.

@NEStalgia

Yeah, the Treehouse went overboard with Smash and somehow didn’t really reveal anything new (probably because they said nearly everything in the Direct ). At least the rest of the presentations were pretty good. Mario Party, Overcooked 2, Killer Queen Black, and Hollkw Knight all looked great (and, having now played Hollow Knight quite a bit, I can confirm that it is great ). And we got two neat announcements in Donkey Kong and Sky Skipper from the Arcade Archives segment.

Also, the casual audience may not watch E3 itself, but they definitely hear about some of the bigger announcements. I mean, the Washington Post publishes two articles about Waluigi in the wake of E3:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/the-intersect/wp/2018/06/12/waluigi-was-robbed-and-humiliated-by-nintendo-and-his-fans-are-furious/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/express/wp/2018/06/13/trending-super-smash-bro-fans-unite-behind-waluigi/

(Side note: now that the public has been alerted to this injustice, maybe Nintendo will be forced to give Waluigi the respect he deserves ).

The Fortnite controversy also received some mainstream attention from sites like the BBC and CNBC. Heck, Fox News even interviewed Reggie on it (one of the few times I looked at anything from them).

@ThanosReXXX Oh I know it was, I guess it was a (maybe too) serious answer to a funny situation with the stocks, and how little they really relate to what happens in gaming. My mistake, didn't mean to sound so serious!

@Andrew5678 Haha, don't worry about it, no offense taken. I thought I'd just explain to clarify my earlier intent, kind of in the spirit of "better safe than sorry"...

@HobbitGamer lmao

Saying something which isn't topping the charts to begin with doubling doesn't give any kind of indicator to how it's doing. It could have gone from 100 to 200 systems. Just like when the 2DS "quintupled" in a month, it went from 1,000 to 5,000, still well behind PS4...

@Heavyarms55 Wii U was full of 1,000+ indie games, and Switch has been living off Wii U ports since Odyssey, something they should have done with Wii U (port over Wii games since the majority of Nintendo fanboys are stupid enough to buy them multiple times).