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any 'new' product sells out of the gate, there are essentially zero products that don't have a wave of hype at launch

even if they're lackluster

Doesn't matter leg, they hear 4k, even if they can't even run it, and think thats great

Leg, that's also not true at all, framerates are a HUGE selling point to normies

even if their TV doesn't support it or they don't know how to turn it on

I have no idea what my tv even supports

I think just 1080

I did not buy a 4k tv, thats for sure

4k tvs aren't very expensive

Switch 2 will set a bunch of launch records, there's no risk that it doesn't if you want one launch day you won't be able to walk into a store and get one

and I think it'll be ~3 weeks until stock catches up

and by then its second game will be soon to release

and then the hype dies down a lot, maybe Holiday 2026 Nintendo will have a big second wave of success

but I don't think their Year 1 roadmap so far is that compelling to kids and non-Nintendo diehards

price being more than a PS5 doesn't help

mario kart is the most normie thing they have so its a good launch title

and then they are hoping that silly donkey kong works

imo, Mario Kart is a great pack-in and an amazing 2nd game but I don't think it's a system seller on its own it's the game that everyone who buys a Switch 2 will own, but not the one they buy the console for (aside from people buying it on-launch regardless)

I don't think the average middle class perst

can get a switch 2 rn

for a family for Christmas

ngl

most middle class people i know have switch lites.

maybe they should get pokemon colosseum finished and market it hard for gamecube emulation

I don't think the switch 2 has enough oomph to make it relevant enough to go farther

also

kids dont even play video games anymore

ngl

it's all tiktok annd Minecraft

i think the switch 2 wont do incredible but it'll due fine just due to the "wave"

the core feature of gamechat was meant to emulate college hangouts so kids might not even be the intended audience

yeah all those college kids

not using face time

or discord

the switch 2 is a poorly marketed poorly targeted clusterfuck

screenshare without capture cards is a decent feature

how many people have tables you can sit at and use a joycon with a mouse with in your living room

Leg, I read that interview too, I go back to I think Nintendo executed 10% of the idea that would have been wildly successful 5 years ago

as in sit straight up, and use the joycon like a mouse

i have never seen a single living room in my entire life where that's possible unless you sit on the floor

oh woooow

you try playing a game with your mouse on your leg on a couch

see how fun it is

i did it as a kid and it was miserable

that was the one use for trackball mice as a kid

you could use them on weird surfaces or your leg/arm

the mouse feature is poorly designed the webcall voicechat feature is targeted at no one the price point isnt viable for middle class families switch lite is too recent, same with oleds

i think, outside of the hype and scalping

the true number of people is low

Switch OLED has a better screen as well

no games either

^

that's the big one

pvp bloodborne is not nearly enough

kids just don't care that much about Nintendo in general

outside of pokemon sorta

yes

the Nintendo nostalgia era is over

which is going to ve Really interesting

nintendo can't rely on their big factor

pokemon probably carries hard enough

Switch 2 being a "personal" console again also probably hurts them

i think unironically something more "wii core"

would of done a lot better

I still think the endgame for Nintendo is a cloud console

play anywhere, subscription fee

release a Switch lite handheld or w/e to still have that product line

but everything is cloud streaming on the backend

people playing on their phones, on PCs, on their smart TVs, etc.

switch lite unironically

fucked switch 2 sales i think

i know SOOOO many people who got their kids switch lites

same

past 3 years

there's no way that isn't cutting into year 1 sales of switch 2

like crazy

I also just know a lot of kids who got switches, and then sorta stopped caring about dedicated "games machines" in general

the truth nuke is

most kids that played games didnt actually really like them that much or were a big fan of games but it was cool dopamine

now with tiktok and other sources