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edit: the neon only has 2 in stock for a major, newly released this year console. and a town with a population of 6,000 having Switches in stock vs the sf bay area with 7 million people with a ton of money not having anything in weeks proves nothing cause you just said it's expensive so the people who would buy it there are less. so I don't get your point at all. |
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Dont strawman my arguement, read the post above if you are confused about my point. :) EDIT: I'm in Denver now and I just called the closest Walmart, who has 2 in stock. I can get you one if you want to pay me a 25% handling fee B) |
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Regardless, there will be enough uptake by the time the next title comes out that none of this is really an issue. A new title would absolutely not come out until at least the holiday season of next year, at which point we could see the sales figures rise to around 30 million or so, if Nintendo's own projections hold true. That's not just enough to launch a main series exclusive game - or set of games - but enough to see pretty massive sales of that game, too. We already know that such a game is in production, and the chance of it being released on multiple Nintendo platforms is really, really low. I love the 3DS line and I advocate for it pretty strongly - on other forums, I've argued that there's no reason to expect that it will be cut off from support in 2018. However, it's been around for over six years now, so it's just about near the end of its life cycle - they're probably not going to keep releasing main series titles on it. Support for it will probably reach end of life status in mid-to-late 2019, so releasing a main series game in 2018 just won't really work all that well. As for the possibility of a multi-platform release, that would really only have worked this year. You have to hit at the right time, in the middle of a transition, like Breath of the Wild did - and we saw that it had to be right at the beginning of the newer console's life span to sell decently cross-platform. It's not something I think Nintendo does all that often, and there's probably a good reason for that! I think we should look at the Switch as an opportunity with this series. While the series has grown and evolved over the years, it became apparent with Sun and Moon that its starting to outgrow the smaller platforms that it has historically occupied - and that's a direct parallel to the handheld consoles kind of being phased out if the hybrid Switch is successful. The series needs more space to showcase its world, and a platform to dive deeper into the storytelling and lore that started to see some really great expansion as the 3DS generations continued. The Switch, as both a home console and a handheld console, is the perfect Pokemon console, and you can bet they'll want to show us what they can do with it! |
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A) More games (Mario Odyssey :p) B) A bundle with more games |
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About the switch not having enough sales:
Consoles are less likely to get lost/broken then handhelds A lot of people buy 2 handhelds, or each member of the family gets one, but they only get 1 console. |
Why do the Switch sales even matter at this point? They're already developing Pokémon Switch, so they're probably content with how the system is doing, otherwise gen 8 would be for 3DS.
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