lol the first few pages of this thread are embarrassing
I always believed
Get rekt “Nintendo is going to die” people. If you are over 30, and have lived through their multiple eras you’d have to be nuts to say that. They always bounce back.
Naaaaaaaaah, quality wise Nintendo had actually been on a steady downwards trajectory forever as far as hardware and big picture choices. The Wii throws it off because it was dirt cheap and trendy so casuals bought the shit out of it to play wii bowling and tennis and shit, but other than the two Galaxy games there's not a lot of quality software on that thing, and history has born me out on this: waggle was a gimmick, and a shitty one at that.
The single best thing IMO Nintendo did was launch this with a kick ass Zelda game, and then a kick ass Mario game like 7 months later. Having those two games going into the first holiday season was smart AF. It helps that while obviously underpowered relative to the PS4 and Xbone, it's still *KINDA* powerful enough to play ports of games, and enough people are stupid enough to want to play shit on the go instead of on a couch like god intended that the portability is for whatever reason a selling point. (Seriously, you people are unclean)
The dirty secret is that other than BotW and Odyssey, there's not a lot of MUST HAVE games you can only get on Switch. It's you sick in the head portability people that are driving sales, plus assholes like Tasty and Brandnew who can only get erections or whatever when they give Nintendo money, so they overpay for shit they can get cheaper elsewhere because "lol it's on the Switch"
System is still worth it for BotW and Odyssey, or if you're a huge FE fan. Getting all the dregs from the WiiU years re-released is nice. I'm sure this is the point where people are going to come in and tell me that I'm discounting the appeal of Smash, Pokemon, and Animal Crossing, and yes- I am. Because those games are all trash, and you are trash if you like them.
Your bias is showing. You only mention consoles.
Nintendo DS and 3DS were fantastic systems but you wouldn't know because you don't like handhelds. I didn't even mention Wii once in my post but you naturally assumed I was talking about consoles because that's your bias.
I've heard "nintendo is going to die" on at least three separate occasions.
Nintendo reveals DS: Nintendo is going to die, PSP is going to kill it. What is this dual screen thing?
What actually happens: sells 150 million units
Nintendo reveals Wii: Nintendo is going to die, 360 and PS3 make it irrelevant.
What actually happens: Sells 100 million units.
Nintendo reveals Switch: Nintendo is going to die, this is just another Wii U
What actually happens: sells a shit load.
You have a massive blind spot when talking about Nintendo. Anyone who thought a Nintendo handheld was doomed for failure is living in a console bubble. Sad to say. That is also why you thought Switch was doomed to fail: you compared them to Xbone and PS4 when Nintendo was merging their libraries. Wii U did not have an Animal Crossing. Wii U also did not have a flagship Pokemon title. FYI, Pokemon Sun and Moon for 3ds sold 16 million copies. That's at least 16 million guaranteed sales for Switch.
The current library is pretty standard stuff as far as a Nintendo handheld goes. It's not really surprising for anyone who has been paying attention.