Looking back, did it deserve it?
Yes. Next question
>lots of games>portable>didn't bloat the console with a bunch of stupid multimedia garbage, it's just for playing games, nothing elseYeah.
It's not just Nintendo's best-selling console, but THE best-selling console, beating out Sony's made-up 155 million and 160 million numbers.
>>738097515>had games>had exclusive gamesYes.
The Duskbloods and ff14 Switch 2 release btw
Quite literally the only wortwhile console of this generation
>>738097515That's a yes, dumbass.>>738097791Nintendo seriously needs to partner with more third party companies for more exclusive games. Yes i know FF14 isn't an exclusive game.
>>738097896Third parties hate them.
>>738097791>a ripoff>a game that has been on other systems for years
>>738097515It's a piece of shit for children. Not interested in the market of shit for children.
>>738097708PS2 won... holy shit. The DVD is seemingly unbeatable...
>>738098035>It's a piece of shit for children.>videogames are for childrenNo shit, Sherlock.
>>738098019This post seriously didn't age that well, did it archieve.com?
>>738098004There's lots of third party companies. Square, Bamco and Ubisoft are obviously willing to work with nintendo and there's also smaller companies that want to work on nintendo IPs.
>>738098206>The best Ubisoft games from the last decade are Nintendo exclusivesKinda bizarre when you think about it.
>>738097515Yes
>>738098206>Square, Bamco and Ubisoft are obviously willing to work with nintendoNot at all. It all boils down to being catered to; these third parties have MC complex. See how keycards came to be; it was an option demanded by third parties.
>>738098286Also the ones that underperformed to a more or less degree.Shit sucks.
>>738098079>>738097669>>738097515>many exclusives>portability>able to be used like a home console or used in handheld form>sold uncontested in the handheld space, essentially having the market to itself>gaming is supposedly bigger than ever>still hasnt beaten a dvd player from 26 years agoHow?
>>738097515>switch>consoleNice tryIt's silly selling a fuck ton less than the combo nintendo killed to make the switch. DS and wii were killing it.
>>738098447ubisoft's fault for causing the lost of trust from the consumer, once they lost Asscreed's normies they had no safety net. This is why you shouldn't rely in constantly displeasing your audience and releasing poorly done software; only a handful can pull the "they'll going to buy it anyways" and Ubisoft ain't one of those
>>738098542>still hasnt beaten a dvd player from 26 years ago>How?Because the company behind the glorified dvd player fixed the numbers everytime another system has surpassed it.
>>738098657>DS and wii were killing it.COMBINED they made less money for nintendo than what the switch made across 6 years of its own life due to the obvious fact that they were manufacturing two different sets of hardware compared to one.
>>738098206Bamco is far from willing to work with Nintendo lmao. The only time they want to work together is if Nintendo is paying them. 90% of what Bandai Namco works on in-house has been skipping the Switch 1 and Switch 2 and the ones that do come over have been unoptimized, low-effort, and late ports. Ubisoft does it out of necessity, especially because they are still on a downward spiral. The only major third-party company that has been genuinely trying to upkeep a good relationship is Capcom.
>>738097708>made up snoy numbers:|>made up tendie numbers:O
Yeah
>>738100006huh? They worked on Smash and Air Riders lol
>>738097515yes
>>738097515The switch is great if you have kids around but fuck nintendo and their cheap ass controllers
>>738100049>backed by quarterly and yearly shareholder reports that are illegal to falsify. :|>Provides actual sold numbers and not "in stock or shipped to vendor "estimates" :|vsnumbers adjusted exactly when 3ds is about to pass their record. It's been decades since the last one was sold! :0numbers adjusted again just in time for their anniversary! :0wild how butthurt Sony is after all these years.
Reddit moment
>>738098542tbdesu the switch is the worst console to play the shittiest generations of video games games. vidya 20 years ago and the ps2 are a lot better in pretty much any regard.
>>738097515doesn't mean much, more people in the world and more countries have access to Nintendo products than in the past and the fact the handheld division was sacrificed for it
>>738100160Not at all; they provided installations for the development. And by provided I meant Sakurai basically renting some of their people to work under Sora LTD. Hell, Bamco even sold to Nintendo one of their branches recently. Bamco is one of those jewy devs nowadays, if that behaviour was thanks to Harada entirely remains to be seen now that he's fucking off finally but don't get your hopes up beyond a pity port like Xenoverse 2 and FighterZ
>>738100920Then why didn't the Wii U sell more than the Wii
>>738101448For the 9001th time; Marketing, motherfucker!
Switch 1 sales are 125 million when you remove the nintendo bonus. Nintendo have always lied about their sales figures
>>738101761Hi Deen
>>738101761And how many PS2 without the DVD bonus, sister?
>>738101448The Wii was for everyone. grandmothers bought it to jump around or flail their arms around, lots of nongamers went for the gimmick. Wii U's gimmick was for gamers so they lost the nongamers
>>738097515It was in the right place at the right time. If the meme flu hadn't hit it probably would have topped out at 80 or 90 million. I think the Switch 2 is going to land about here too.
>>738098657>It's silly selling a fuck ton less than the combo nintendo killed to make the switch. DS and wii were killing it.That combo was in terminal decline though. I noticed you skipped the 3DS and Wii U, which the Switch outsold combined.
>>738097515not getting one until it's cracked like the switch 1
>>738101525but there were le more people, by your logic it should have sold more than the Wii
>>7381021687
>>738102853Those failed because of Nintendo's ego and terrible names.It's why the Nex Playground managed to BTFO everything last Christmas, there's an immense market, it's just they they don't want it because of their ego.
Covid REALLY boosted those numbers.But honestly? What that other anon said, it had actual exclusives.
>>7380985428 years versus 20 years of LTD. Won't matter since the Switch 1 will beat the PS2 LTD next year.
>>738097515yeah, a console with games is a great thing.
>>738097515>155M>best selling everHow can it be the best selling ever when the PS2 sold 160M? It seems to me like the Switch's 155M is less than the PS2's 165M. Until the Switch hits 171M it won't pass the PS2's 170M, and frankly it has a ways to go considering the PS2 just hit 175M.
>>738101761That is illegal. And not small-fine-illegal, send your executives to ass-rape-prison-illegal. No one would risk going to prison for Nintendo.
>>738102657It was at 65M units sold before the pandemic, three years into its lifespan. There's no reason to think it would slow down from selling 20M units a year for the first five years.
Does it bother you?
>>738097708give this source to wikipedia. challenge the bullshit claim
>massively scaled down ports that make you wonder why they bothered>coasting off Wii U ports>shittiest Pokemon games ever that cut content on purpose and still sell better than the last>yakuza man only an interim presidentNo. But at least it had a decent launch year.
>>738098542It has already beaten it. Sony had to lie and revise their numbers to stay ahead but Switch will beat that new figure too
>>738097708Sony was still selling PS2 in South America and in Africa/India back in 2012. So make sense. Hell, the last PS2 game is a 2014 FIFA game.
>>738097515Any pc handheld is miles above Nintenbro switch 1.1
>>738108028>PC HandheldLel. Why would you buy an overprice game PC that you will use at home only 99% of the time? Unless you are a student or travel for work literally every week, it serve no purpose. I work at Airport Security. I see Switches every single day. Multiple dozens. I almost never see a Steam Deck. I think I see the Meta Googles more than the Steam Deck.
Not only did it deserve it, it's still the best option for a console today. Aside from Air Riders every Switch 2 game I've been interested in is a "switch 2 edition" that I can just play on Switch 1. Switch 1 is also still gets the most indie game releases and ports of old games. Add that key cards aren't physical games and you realize Switch 1 is significantly superior to Switch 2 in both quantity and quality even just looking at future releases. Add a PC to fill the gaps and you have access to 99% of new games that are worth playing. There is almost zero reason to buy either a PS5 or Switch 2.
lol what a failure
