Why does everyone always seem to forget this basic rule?

Why does everyone always seem to forget this basic rule?

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Because then the console would be dubbed a failure and nobody would ever buy it.

well its a nintendo console in 2017. thats already going to happen

In my case I sold the Wii U I never used and it pretty covered the entire cost of the Switch so I got nothing to lose.

wow yall really want the japs out of the video game business huh

Console sales = development interest = games

You think companies would keep spending literal billions each year on manufacturing hype if it ddn't work?

hype =/= a good console

No. A Microsoft monopoly would be the worst thing that could happen

>nobody buys it
>dies

WOOOW

Because people are retarded and don't understand that buying a system for games that aren't out yet is always ALWAYS a huge mistake.
The wii u is the perfect example. So many people I know both personally and online, bought it for a new zelda title. And here we are, almost HALF A DECADE LATER when it's finally coming out, and it's also coming out on the NEXT system.

B-BUT MUH BLOOMWAKER HD!!11

Console itself doesn't have to be good to sell.
3DS was an antiquated gimmick-fest of a hardware, yet it succeeded because of continued support from both first and third parties.
Vita was a technological marvel, yet it ended up a bottom feeder kept on life support by mediocre weeb dungeon crawlers.

I've owned every Nintendo console and handheld since the N64/GBC.

I buy Nintendo because I like Nintendo's first party titles.

I have never regretted my ownership of a Nintendo system.

I'm impatient for Zelda.

And then companies would be forced to have a functional system with a good library at launch to avoid that in the future.
Sounds fucking great.

Same. Wii U and PC was a gud time

I know someone that bought a PS3 at launch for KHIII and VersesXIII. Faggot didn't even like any of the games the system got over its lifespan.

Narrow oversimplification

3DS I'm still salty about because I bought it launch week and then a couple months later it dropped nearly $100.

you're clearly not here for the right reasons

I don't care. I always buy handhepds at launch.

I'm gonna play Zelda wherever I want and nobody's gonna stop me

Don't buy anything at launch
ftfy

If you have no response to the point, you don't need to insult the breadth of the argument instead.

Because some people make white man money and can afford to spurge on the occasional luxury.

If you wait to buy a console you are effectively getting timecucked and spoiled on games that come out only on that console.

It's like seeing a hot 10/10 and thinking "I'll wait until she's done with the cock carousel so I can marry her"

You're literally a cuck.

>launch console sales will effect the system in the longrun

Wii Launch was fine.
Mostly because it was also backwards compatible.

>he pays more more than inflation-adjusted 20 bucks for a computer game
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Playing Zelda on Wii U would be a pain. I was going to get one anyway for Splatoon 2, Oddyseey, etc.

This.

People are fucking retarded. There are idiots who stand in line for days to get something that won't be good for another 1-2 years.

Not waiting for the inevitable slim/revised version that is better and cheaper as well as actually having more worthwhile games than you can count on a single hand

What is this post?
The whole point in waiting is to buy it when there are games you want.

I smell way too many fanboys and shills in this thread, seeing Sup Forums defend shitty console launches is really sad but I guess as usual "ITS OK WHEN SONY/MICROSOFT/NINTENDO DOES IT" (cross out so it's relevant to whatever you're a fan of fucker

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The average player cant fathom not sucking that corporate dick and getting fucked over in hopes of "soon" to be announced games.
Modern gamers are pretty much drones.

But then you got like 20 free nes and gba games. Those were cool.

"Whoa heres 20 unoptimized roms for 100 dollars!"

I've always done it, and I've rarely had an issue. When you buy it at launch you have more time with the system. I'll happily pay a bit more to be able to spend more time playing games on the system.

>*proceeds to buy games like MGSV and Death Stranding*

>no library / 3 games
>expensive as fuck
>servers filled with dude normie lmao

surely you could avoid disaster like this by just waiting

>unoptimized
at least pretend like you know what you're talking about holy fuck son

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The GBA emulator for the ambassador games is unoptimized what's your point asshat?

because i want to play zelda before I get spoiled

>implying ive even played a single one of Hamburger Twitter Mans games aside from Snatcher, which I emulated

Ganon caused evil shit.
Rescue Zelda.
Kill Ganon.

Just saved you $60.

Wrecking crew was the shit. I never would have played metroid fusion or minish cap without that either and those games were cool. I also got 70 dollars off by trading in my ds lite at launch so I wasn't all that mad about it.

I can't believe it's been so long since the 3ds came out. I was 14 when it came out and I played all those garbage games like spirit camera and ridge racer 3D but that Zelda ocarina of time remake was my entire summer that year. I'm 21 now btw, I know someone is going to bring it up.

Why would they bother having that if no one ever bought consoles at launch?

People shouldn't be buying consoles at launch because they don't have that.
If they had strong launches there'd be plenty of real incentive to buy at launch, therefore the problem disappears and people can buy at launch again.

>RE revelations was impressive as fuck back then
>Looks like shit already

so it´s another good guy beats bad guy, whiteknights in couple adventure quests, kills big bad evil, world is fine again story where you rescue a damsel in distress.

i thought you guys had a taste so wtf´s up with being into this shit

Wouldn't handhelds be an exception?
The original lasted for years before they added colors, and then they finally shrunk it down with the pocket. The GBC was the first hardware upgrade and their were some games that could only be played in it. The GBA was great except for the lack of a backlight, which the SP did get. The original DS was bulky, but it was built like a tank. I know people who think the original 3DS is the best version of that console (it's certainly the best looking version at least).

Playing black and white 2 in the bathroom during Spanish class.

I'm doing it to support the Nintendo renaissance, and also because I'm really hyped for both the system and BotW.

Hopefully I can get off work that day and just pig out and play Switch all day.

>all these faggots acting like Sup Forums is sizable enough to kill developer interest
You don't buy a console at launch, let the normies and soccer moms support the console until it has a sizable library of games you want to play.

retarded normies/fanboys
>Implying Sup Forums isn't full of them

Your assumption is correct but your conclusion is retarded. "Nobody would ever buy it" doesn't matter. Read for a tl;dr


What matters is third party developer perception, because they're the ones who make the fucking games. The games matter, not the hardware companies, not the consoles, not the people.

When a developer looks at whether it's financially sound to create a game on a platform, they look at the install base as the primary number. The more people they can reach, the more money they can make. A platform that has 200 users will have a very small library compared to one that has 600,000 users for that very reason. It's the "sell a lamp to every Chinaman" idea of market size.

You fucking retards think that some sort of teenaged baby perception of "ohhh noooo, they'll call me a loser if I have a PS4" fucking matters. Christ. No. If the Switch (or whatever console) has a super strong opening of hardware sales and pushes a large amount of hardware around, thus expanding the market base, the games WILL come, because that's where the market is.

There are certainly other factors, like whether a console relies on a gimmick, whether the hardware is too weak, whether it's difficult to develop for (like the PS3), etc. etc. But the first number that third party game studios look at is install base. They don't care about your feels.

well your majesty, when should we buy them, is there a guideline somewhere?

If nobody bought a product on launch the dev won't go "Oh man I need to git gud" they go "damn this didn't work guess they'll never like this" then we're left with shit like Awakening.

Pro tip, companies rarely state they were wrong. If you don't like what they're making then not buying it won't make them make whatever it is you want.

>yall
Farmers buy consoles? Shoot! Ain't that more amazin' then a square dancin' horse with a broken leg! YEEEHAWWWWWW

When you can get it bundled with 1-2 games for either the same price or less and the system isnt a flop

At the end of their lifecycle when they're cheap and their libraries big (except they aren't because nobody bought it on release).

But I want to play the definitive Zelda BotW asap.

And I want to play ARMS and MK8D while they're hot, fresh and everyone else is.

Yes, in the real world.
FE Awakening happened because Nintendo was absolutely right, dumb it down and market it more and you will make more money off it, old fans be damned.
In this instance we're talking about a fictitious world where most consumers aren't fucking retarded, console manufacturers would know that and actually be forced to compete on quality.

>buying consoles when the online for many of the fun games is already dead

lol, retarded poorfags

Damn shame we live in the real world and Sup Forumss pre-entry level Business knowledge is moot.

which of these consoles had a good launch in terms of games?

I didn't own all of those but I know that the PS2 had a great fucking launch lineup

No, it didn't.

what? ps2 had a terrible launch of games

Nintenautism and poorfaggotry walk hand in hand

GBA VC games weren't emulated, they're played natively on internal GBA hardware. That's why they don't come with the same features as the other VC platforms.

Wii. I remember looking at the launch catalog at Target and seeing so much.

Colecovision
NES (In North America, the PAL launch was pathetic)
SNES (Again, US only)
Saturn
Dreamcast
PS2 (Most of the games were rushed and glitchy though)
Gamecube (For the Dreamcast ports, Nintendo's first-party lineup was non-existent.)
Xbox
360
Wii U

also the Last of Us.