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[balladofwindfishes]

Not really, there are just no games to buy for it. Kind of surprising however as these games are also available on the WII U.

There are lots of games to buy on the Switch.

 

[Lulubop]

Both games made for the previous console. They don't deserve success, they deserve to to fail for the lack of SW and charging for the same games over and over.

Hypocrisy at its worst

unreal grown adults get this invested in their favorite console.

 

[KZXcellent]

Hypocrisy at its worst

I live for these posts.

 

[Astorgh]

Hypocrisy at its worst

He ded

 

[DAREALGUMMY]

Hypocrisy at its worst

BRUH

 

[AcademicSaucer]

Hypocrisy at its worst

 

[HardRojo]

Damn that reply was savage, I love those kinds of replies lol.

 

[rewkol]

Hypocrisy at its worst

These posts give me life

 

[Quasar]

Why is the console doing so well if it's so starved for games, if the games aren't the driving force behind those sales?

Well Wii sold well due to Wii Sports.

 

[Mihael Mello Keehl]

Hypocrisy at its worst

And this is why people come to gaf

Spoiler

LOL

 

[Quasar]

Literally everyone I've talked to considers it a handheld with an elegant TV out capability.

Yeah. That's the only way I see it talked about. 3DS successsor you can plug into your TV.

 

[Thoraxes]

Hypocrisy at its worst

haha

 

[CaviarMeths]

Well Wii sold well due to Wii Sports.

Wii Sports was a pack in. You could not buy the console without it for years.

Considering the Wii had a fantastic attach rate of over 9:1 though, it's abundantly clear that people who just bought it for Wii Sports were a minority.

 

[gamerMan]

Hypocrisy at its worst

AgentP your cover was blown.

 

[James Scott]

This thread shouldn't be going this way but considering both games are on the WiiU this is slightly disingenuous.


On the topic at hand, very good to see the success and hopefully this means good things for the Switch.

Wii U held a lot of games back. If it wasn't going to benefit from fantastic software then another system should.

Yeah. That's the only way I see it talked about. 3DS successsor you can plug into your TV.

Kind of. It's more than just an HDMI out which was a pretty cool design decision.
Also don't really get "Switch isn't a good portable or handheld" when there're very few draw backs on the portable size. Size and battery are both comparable

 

[Quasar]

You just don't get it. It's not about being meaningful or starving or whatever narrative you're trying to create here.

It's Mario Kart. People buy consoles for this game.

If that's the case in any numbers the WiiU would have sold much more.

 

[Uno Venova]

ohhh nooo AgentP baby what is you doin'

 

[Principate]

If that's the case in any numbers the WiiU would have sold much more.

Pretty sure a large reason the Wii u even reached the Ltd it did was because of Mario kart 8. It sold 8 million copies on the Wii u.

 

[Zedark]

If that's the case in any numbers the WiiU would have sold much more.

MK8 is a system seller not a necromancer: nothing could make people buy the Wii U because it was so unattractive. Switch isn't.

 

[Jack The Nipper]

It still isn't mk64 to me though.

Obviously have to wait and see how it sells overall but Christmas could be very good.

Also has a mario to compete with a bit for choose people

 

[jett]

Makes you wonder why Sony and Microsoft have slept on the kart racing genre so much this generation.

Sony and Microsoft in general seem to do little to nothing to create family-oriented games or ones that appeal to children.

 

[Kebiinu]

Hypocrisy at its worst

LMFAO

 

[Principate]

Sony and Microsoft in general seem to do little to nothing to create family-oriented games or ones that appeal to children.

Microsoft did at the start of the gen, those games bombed and they moved on.

 

[Jack The Nipper]

Sony and Microsoft in general seem to do little to nothing to create family-oriented games or ones that appeal to children.

Sony has for sure and still does. Sly, Ratchet to some extent in the past. A whole lot more I won't list.

Knack and such but yeah not a ton of high profile money spent


But if your not Nintendo, phones and such have been taking over the age for a long time now so I think it just isn't going to work so well.

I don't even see many gamers going to those games that often either. While some will it just isn't enough

 

[Option-]

Hypocrisy at its worst

Holy.. I´m Crying what a rekt

 

[BassForever]

Hypocrisy at its worst

Literally more doomed then Nintendo

 

[NOLA_Gaffer]

Lol at assuming everyone is a fanboy like you and/or only had a Wii U last gen.

...what? Lol

 

[Tunavi]

It's perhaps the second meaningful release on a console that's starved for games - I don't think its success is all that surprising with that context.

For two months into a consoles lifespan, there's an EXTREMELY healthy lineup of games available for the switch

 

[doop_]

And he was never seen in the thread again.

 

[TheBaldEmperor]

Starved?

I have barely been able to touch half the games I bought for the system so far..

This is how I feel. The only game I have completed so far is the 3 campaigns in Shovel Knight. I'm about halfway through Zelda, have played a bunch of Mario Kart, most of Graceful Explosion machine, I own several of the Neo Geo games, I Am Setsuna, and Wonder Boy.

 

[Toparaman]

I said "wow".

LOL. GAF detectives done it again!

 

[Emu-Fred]

That was a strong counter post. How will he recover?

Balls exposed on forum.

 

[BlueLiquid]

For most of April I didn't use my Switch much. I was done with Zelda till the DLC drops and while I have Snipperclips that's nowhere near as fun in singleplayer. But now both Puyo Puyo Tetris and MK8DX are going to get hundreds of hours of playtime and are both easy enough to pick up and play anytime.

On the other hand, Splatoon 2 is the only Switch game with a firm release date coming up that I'm interested in right now. ARMS just isn't doing it for me. Maybe it's the art style. If there's a demo I might try it but I'm not at all sold on it.

Hypocrisy at its worst

rofl

 

[Soph]

Hypocrisy at its worst

Ouch, I can feel the burn here and I'm not even the target

 

[TheSkullPrince]

Zelda in March, PPT and MK8Dx in late April, Ultimate Street Fighter II later this month, Arms in June, Splatoon 2 in July, plus all the indies in between...

Nintendo servicing me well!

 

[hughesta]

Hypocrisy at its worst

I live for this shit man

 

[chadskin]

Hypocrisy at its worst

 

[Twilight Princess]

did he go through his post history post by post?

 

[RRockman]

Hypocrisy at its worst

theme music

 

[koss424]

This thread shouldn't be going this way but considering both games are on the WiiU this is slightly disingenuous.


On the topic at hand, very good to see the success and hopefully this means good things for the Switch.

It's not disingenuous though. No one is buying a WIiU for its end of life title. And MK8D offers value for those that missed be the best entry of the series on the failed WIiU and offers a portable version of he game for those of us who purchased it again. It's a no brainer to want a portable MK8 even if it was a title of a past console. Nintendo earned those sales.

 

[TheGreatMightyPoo]

did he go through his post history post by post?

If he did, that's awful
ly worth it.

 

[Neoxon]

Hypocrisy at its worst

/dead

 

[Machina]

Hypocrisy at its worst

Well that's a rough day

 

[Mokujin]

Hypocrisy at its worst

Daaaamn, that's one hell of a checkmate.

 

[Serrato]

theme music

I think you meant
THIS

 

[Calm Mind]

Hypocrisy at its worst

BODIED

 

[BY2K]

I think you meant
THIS

I approve of this.

 

[Flintty]

AgentP your cover was blown.

Under rated comment right here.

This thread is gold.

 

[LotusHD]

did he go through his post history post by post?

Sometimes it's creepy, most times it's hilarious

 

[Machina]

Under rated comment right here.

This thread is gold.

He's gone to ground, both figuratively and literally