Comment on New report suggests third-party Switch 2 game sales are "below estimates"

ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why? The console just launched. One would expect pretty the initial sales numbers - both consoles and games - to be incredibly valuable information at this stage. Opening weeks are measured for like…every product launch

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  • Ashtear@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s too early to draw any conclusions. Take it from Mat Piscatella, who’s forgotten more about video game market research than I ever learned myself.

    Hardware launches are not like game releases, anyway. It’s the establishment of a new product market, and early game releases on consoles have an ebb and flow to them that later blockbusters do not. It’s about building growth, not first-week sales.

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    • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      1. Nintendo

      2. Switch

      “New product market”? Come on. Only in the most literal sense of the term. Functionally those rules do not apply at all.

      Nintendo gets all these caveats and generous interpretations. If this was a new Xbox (definitely) or PlayStation (maybe) we wouldn’t even been having this conversation.

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      • Ashtear@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        conventional wisdom does not apply

        All the more reason why it’s far too early to draw any conclusions.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It will be valuable information when we have more data points to compare it against later. The console’s high initial sales may very well have little to do with anything except how many Nintendo had available, for instance. It could do Wii U numbers (unlikely), or it could be a mega success, or anything in between. The third party sales might be reflective of the fact that the games are all older and available on other platforms, or it could be that customers are strapped for cash after a higher console purchase price, or any of a number of other reasons. I would just encourage people not to make a narrative out of this yet.

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    • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It will be valuable then, and what we have is valuable now. I don’t understand why you’re acting like it’s some sort of either/or situation.

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