The Nintendo Switch Is Running Into A Predictable Nintendo Problem



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While the Nintendo Switch is certainly a hit, and a radical departure from the clearing of the Wii U, we are starting to see that Nintendo is once again dealing with an old problem specific to the company in the last few console races.

In a recent earnings report, we learned that Nintendo has sold 22.8 million Switches at this point, roughly on the PS4. Nintendo has forecast they will sell 20 million switches during this fiscal year, but right now they are only at 5.07 million, halfway through. But this is "in line" with expectations, as Nintendo expects they will sell a whole bunch of units over the holiday to make up the difference. Still, they may end up cutting it, and there's nothing.

We have seen Nintendo remain largely quiet, but this time is still going strong. almost every big AAA game is skipping the system, or at least waiting a long, long while for a port. This tends to happen every year, but this year is particularly important Destiny 2: Forsaken, Black Ops 4, Assassin 's Creed Odyssey, Red Dead Redemption 2 gold Fallout 76 on the Nintendo Switch, all important titles to be released when PS4 and Xbox take them for granted. This year, both Sony and PS4's Spiderman and Xbox One's Forza Horizon 4.

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Nintendo is waiting until late November / early December to unleash its own pair of big games, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee. Smash is always a staple of any Nintendo generation Mario Odyssey gold Breath of the Wild. I really have no idea what to make of Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee, which seems to be a relatively low key release, or a total monster hit. I never would have predicted the success Pokémon GO, and I find it similarly hard to guess this GO / handheld hybrid version will perform as a stripped down version of the traditional series using many GO elements. I think Pokémon console release ever, but we've never seen anything like it before.

But the point is, once again Nintendo has to rely on a select few of its exclusive to carry momentum for the whole system, a problem Sony and Microsoft never have to deal with, given that they have access to so many third party games. Granted, Nintendo has gotten a little better, and the Switch is a great place to play a lot of games. Fortnite Harbor. And yet, the power of its consoles has not changed, and it has not been made easy by its competition, a key factor of how many of these games are linking to multiplayer.

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This is not a "Nintendo is doomed" prediction, but rather a comment on "Nintendo being Nintendo" after Switch mania has died down a bit. The Switch is much better, but the tradeoffs are much more important than any other game in the world. talking about.

Smash Bros. and Let's go could change the conversation once they're released, but I do not care about this, but I do not think it's going to be so good. PS4 and Xbox One games out, and the other . It feels like the 1.5-year-old Switch, I'm just not sure that's the case.

Follow me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Read my new sci-fi thriller novel Herokiller, available now in print and online. I also wrote The Earthborn Trilogy.

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While the Nintendo Switch is certainly a hit, and a radical departure from the clearing of the Wii U, we are starting to see that Nintendo is once again dealing with an old problem specific to the company in the last few console races.

In a recent earnings report, we learned that Nintendo has sold 22.8 million Switches at this point, roughly on the PS4. Nintendo has forecast they will sell 20 million switches during this fiscal year, but right now they are only at 5.07 million, halfway through. But this is "in line" with expectations, as Nintendo expects they will sell a whole bunch of units over the holiday to make up the difference. Still, they may end up cutting it, and there's nothing.

We have seen Nintendo remain largely quiet, but this time is still going strong. almost every big AAA game is skipping the system, or at least waiting a long, long while for a port. This tends to happen every year, but this year is particularly important Destiny 2: Forsaken, Black Ops 4, Assassin 's Creed Odyssey, Red Dead Redemption 2 gold Fallout 76 on the Nintendo Switch, all important titles to be released when PS4 and Xbox take them for granted. This year, both Sony and PS4's Spiderman and Xbox One's Forza Horizon 4.

Red Dead Redemption 2Rockstar

Nintendo is waiting until late November / early December to unleash its own pair of big games, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee. Smash is always a staple of any Nintendo generation Mario Odyssey gold Breath of the Wild. I really have no idea what to make of Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee, which seems to be a relatively low key release, or a total monster hit. I never would have predicted the success Pokémon GO, and I find it similarly hard to guess this GO / handheld hybrid version will perform as a stripped down version of the traditional series using many GO elements. I think Pokémon console release ever, but we've never seen anything like it before.

But the point is, once again Nintendo has to rely on a select few of its exclusive to carry momentum for the whole system, a problem Sony and Microsoft never have to deal with, given that they have access to so many third party games. Granted, Nintendo has gotten a little better, and the Switch is a great place to play a lot of games. Fortnite Harbor. And yet, the power of its consoles has not changed, and it has not been made easy by its competition, a key factor of how many of these games are linking to multiplayer.

This is not a "Nintendo is doomed" prediction, but rather a comment on "Nintendo being Nintendo" after Switch mania has died down a bit. The Switch is much better, but the tradeoffs are much more important than any other game in the world. talking about.

Smash Bros. and Let's go could change the conversation once they're released, but I do not care about this, but I do not think it's going to be so good. PS4 and Xbox One games out, and the other . It feels like the 1.5-year-old Switch, I'm just not sure that's the case.

Follow me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Read my new sci-fi thriller novel Herokiller, available now in print and online. I also wrote The Earthborn Trilogy.

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