Comment on New report suggests third-party Switch 2 game sales are "below estimates"
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 1 day ago-
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“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.
Ashtear@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
All the more reason why it’s far too early to draw any conclusions.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
It depends on why it doesn’t apply. You can’t just throw out some little flippant answer like that and act like you made a point of any substance.
There are sales expectations during product launches, and in the video game world when you’re selling a console there is a ratio of console to games that is expected. A notable example where people saw the same trend was the PS3, because people were buying it as an (at the time) affordable Blu-ray player with little to no intention of buying games. So in that case conventional wisdom did not apply, but it also concerns Soni because they were not moving games per unit like they were expecting that persisted for years (in conjunction with How difficult it was to develop for the cell architecture).
The point is nobody is saying Nintendo is doomed, but they’re saying that third-party sales are nowhere near where they expected which is concerning. That could always change, but as of now, it is clearly a note worthy data point. I don’t know why you feel this need to downplay it but it’s unwarranted and kind of strange. If I were Nintendo I would at least start lightly probing as to what is going on and at the very least keep close eyes on it in the coming weeks to see if the trend doesn’t reverse.