GameStop seeing "tremendous demand" for Switch, says "response has been amazing"

“We’ve seen tremendous demand for Switch and of the initial allocation of pre-orders we took, the majority of them were done by PowerUp Reward customers. They’re definitely looking for this device. We have a ways to go before we satisfy all the demand that’s out there The response has been amazing.

They’ve taken a lot of franchises like Zelda and Mario that were popular in the Wii days, gave them HD graphics, and created a system that can be played on your TV and is portable as well. Those are two big technology changes for games that didn’t exist before.

The Q1 launch is one of the smartest moves Nintendo could have done. Instead of pushing units out during the heaviest time of the year (in Q4), this allows them to build a base. So by holiday, we can focus on games. There will be millions of people who will be hungry for content, creating a richer development cycle for game publishers who will have an install base to support titles. This also will take some of the brunt off of Christmas and enable Switch to be better stocked at stores.

Nintendo has learned from the mistakes it made with Wii U because there’s a wide assortment of third-party games from developers like EA, Ubisoft, Bethesda and Take-Two, as well as first-party Nintendo titles like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey and Splatoon 2."

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so... Nintendo wins?

Sì Mìjo

The Wii U also sold out at launch

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>We've seen a tremendous response from ten year olds using their Christmas money for Nana and Papa to buy this system geared towards them

But still not as much

fake and gay.
wii u pre orders sold out and look how that turned iut.

Confirmed for having seen zero Switch advertising.

In the UK they're pushing 12 Switch over Zelda, and in the UK they're getting John Cena to do advertising for it

ahhh, Nintendy pulling the ol' switcheroo

Follow the line and repeat after me

NO GAMES

...but where are the games? Is Zelda going to be enough to hold over until Mario?

I bought a Wii U a few years into its life cycle. Bayonetta 2, Mario Kart, Chilli Dong, Mario U, Weeg U, Wonderful 101, even meme punching bags like Devil's Third and Starfox Zero I really liked. I liked how you could load up YouTube on your TV with a couple taps of the pad after quick launch was added. I could use all my old Wii games and old controllers on it and it was really a solid purchase all around I feel.

The Wii U ended up being a collosal failure and its laughed at today.

Why is the Switch, which lets be honest, has 1 (one) game, so loved and desired by normies whereas the Wii U never was.

I want a switch but... I need more than ONE fucking game!

>they're getting John Cena to do advertising for it
They're also getting jewtubers to shill for this.
All this shilling, now if only they'd deliver a product at least half as good as they're claiming.
Spoilers: They're not.

>Nintendo has learned from the mistakes it made with Wii U because there’s a wide assortment of third-party games from developers
where the fuck are the third party games?

all we saw so far is a last gen game ports like fifa, skyrim, and shovel knight.

liar
fucking LIAR!

PISSES ME OFF THAT THIS ASSHOLE ISNT IN JAIL FOR BEING A FUCKING LIAR!

>done by PowerUp Reward customers.
The demand is so great, everyone should trade in stuff to us so we can scam you and rake in profits!

What the fuck is this news piece? It's a company bolstering a product that will be on their shelves for 4 fucking years, if that. No shit they want to bring in revenue.

Fuck all of you faggots focusing on shilling a crappy console and forcing it onto others over just shutting the fuck up and enjoying this no games machine on your own.

Even if it doesn't, there are smaller releases to hold people over until then.
At least, that's what I assume they're thinking.

>The Q1 launch is one of the smartest moves Nintendo could have done
This. I'll never understand why anybody would want to launch with a thousand other game titles and release a system that will be immediately sold out because of fanboys.

all of these console babies crying their eyes out because their mommy wont give them any milk.

MK8D
Splatoon 2
Arms
Xenoblade 2
Fire Emblem Warriors
Bomberman
Redout
Fast RMX
Snake Pass
Skyrim
Fifa 18
Rime
Minecraft
Disgaea 5 Complete
Snipperclips
Sonic Mania
Project Sonic
Ultra SF 2

Yeah I think that might be enough until Mario

>Literally ports

lmao

NO GAMES*

*at launch, unless the person doesn't own a Wii U (more likely than not), in which BOTW is a pretty strong launch title

I think the thing will be good, but the people claiming NoA isn't shilling hard for the kids (again) despite that shit not working with the WiiU are delusional.

>8D
>>>/reddit/

Inferior multiplats? Re-relases? Has Xenoblade 2 been confirmed as releasing Before Mario 06? Neither of them have dates last I checked.

You're full of shit. Source?

Does Sup Forums not play any games that aren't exclusives? Isn't that significantly limiting your choices?

At least this time people are aware that it's a brand new generation console instead of the disastrously named 'WiiU'. What were they fucking thinking?

Confirmed for 2017, yes.

This is what normies actually think about the Nintendo Switch.

wccftech.com/nintendo-switch-demo-john-cena/

Why do people keep listing Xenoblade if its a fucking 2018 game? This is stretched further than your own asshole, you faggot.

the king is back baby

XB2 is confirmed for 2017 and is currently localising.

It's not confirmed until there is a day and date.

Skyrim
Fifa 18
Rime
Minecraft
Disgaea 5 Complete
Snipperclips
Sonic Mania
Project Sonic
Ultra SF 2

Why play those games on the worst possible console, with the most uncomfortable control scheme when countless other options exist? And they are cheaper. And they have more games and more upcoming games, and more lifetime games. And will be supported longer.

>gamestop

If I'm playing a game I either want "the best" version, or the platform it was originally designed for.

You don't play Resident Evil 4 on the Zeebo.
You don't play Dead Rising on the Wii.
Luckily you DONT HAVE to play Gravity Rush on the Vita anymore. Because the better version, in this case, is the PS4 port.

Come on dude.

so ports from last gen consoles?

switch is looking more and more like the ps vita. nothing but downgraded ports on the go.

Only sonyggers play only exclusives because its all they cling on to since they get BTFO constantly.

No, because that's a image made by some user for shitposting.

>And will be supported longer.
Hah.

I'd just like a nice Switch thread with minimal shitposting about the hardware, but I guess we'll have to wait until previews/reviews come out for any of that.

>hardcore Nintendo fans all put in their preorders
>sales dry up as normies forget it even exists

I'm honestly curious what normies reaction will be to the Switch. Sure they get excited over anything new and shiny, but what will they play after Zelda, if they even like Zelda. Mario Kart is next but it's a 60 dollar port of a game most people played. Even the PS4 with its garbage launch line up had a good handful of generic multiplayer shooters to please the normies.

Are you implying every Playstation console hasnt outlasted Nintendo consoles?
Are you implying Steam can be stopped?

When you invest in Nintendo, you invest in short lifecycles with maybe 2 years of good support. Its their new mentality, they are hardware pushers before they are software developers.

Dead Rising on the Wii is a different game, but okay.

The switch has the portability buff to it, so I'll definitely be picking up some multiplats despite having a PC. It's the only reason to get a console other than it's exclusives.

>botw on my rx480
FUCK

Normies are fucking retarded
They were hyped for the PS4 back when it had literally no games, when Bloodborne hadn't even been announced.

>2 years of good support
It's not a Vita, user.

>it's a port of a game only turboautists and children who had a wii u already played
ftfy

I actually saw this image on facebook yesterday

Even before the normalfags start, which won't be at launch, you have the WiiU and 3DS install base potentially jumping on the Switch bandwagon. Those folks are familiar with Nintendo games so Zelda, Mario Kart, Arms, Splatoon, and Mario all do fine for them in the first 9 months.

Funny enough, the Vita has more first party support than the Wii U, on top of countless third party titles. I think you should recheck your facts, also the fact that the Vita did better than the Wii U.

I genuinely don't understand why would anyone ever buy a Switch, it's such a terrible deal.
But I guess having a PC all your life spoils you.

>Arms
When will this meme end.

Hah. I couldn't even manage to buy a Vita before it died.

It's the red colour.

There is real science behind red being just emotionally responsive to all creatures.

You walk into an gamestop post switch launch, and you'll be more visually attracted to the red switch section than the cooler shaded blue and greens of xbox and sony.


Nintendo fucked up leaving the red colours after SNES. I think they've realized that fuckup.

>All Games>Action Games>Undertale
Every fucking time.

I kinda want a Switch but there is no where to get one in Burgerclap

>it's a rehash of the same game everybody had played 10 years ago but with updated graphics
ftfy

Then you clearly didn't try, all things considered.

How is ARMS a meme? It looks like it's a spiritual successor to Pokken Tournament which is criminally underrated.

I think you aren't accounting for the fact Normies only buy like a game or 2 a year.

Nintendo saying they have "tremendous" third party support would mean something if the Switch was getting ANY of the big third party games this year. No CoD. No Destiny 2. No Mass Effect. No For Honor. No Prey. No Injustice 2. No Red Dead 2. Doesn't matter if the average/v/irgin doesn't care for those games. The average vidya player does. Those third party titles push consoles.

Some of the third party devs have straight up laughed when asked about bringing a game to Switch.

Was the Wii U difficult to get on launch?

When it releases and is shit.

I'm only getting one because my vita is breaking and I need a new handheld so I'm using this as an excuse, it's not like I'm poor anyway

>it's a rehash of the same game everybody played 20 years ago but on a tablet
ftfy

The 3DS sold 3.5M day one. Or week one cause not exactly same day WW.

>I kinda want a Switch but there is no where to get one in Burgerclap

that's because they're all being scalped by me.

Daily reminder that the pre orders that sold out for the Wii U were for the deluxe edition, which had less units in the initial run than the Switch due to the fact that there were two SKUs with different storage capacities. The ones that filled the shelves for weeks were the shitty base versions of the Wii U.

By third party support they meant japs and indies.

What other handhelds are those games available on?

>mario kart gets 10 rehashes and they're all the same terrible game
>CTR gets nitro kart and tag team racing but they're both worse
sad.

It wasn't for the lack of trying, I didn't even know it existed and I bought a 3DS first. By the time I wanted a Vita it was already dead.

I have two switches preordered. Much like I did with the Wii U, I plan on scalping them both, one at a time, in person. I expect to make about $300 off of this that I will use to buy a graphics card.

More power to ya desu. My back log is big enough I can wait a month or two

Good, I love me some jrpgs

Even there many of the indies are ports. Like Minecraft. Literally everything not made by Nintendo can already play Minecraft. If a normie wanted Minecraft, they got it years ago.

Shit port
Shit sequel that's basically an expansion pack
Fun partygame but won't be amazing
Amazing JRPG
Casual memeshit for wannabe weebs
Fun partygame and might be amazing
wat
wat
wat
Shit port
Shit port
Might be nice
Shit port
Shit port
wat
wat
Might be nice
Shit port

Not looking good for the Switch.

why do nintendo buyers love to overpay for nintendo crap? nintendo is like the apple of video games.

That has nothing to do with my backlog.

FF and KH isn't coming to the switch

Good luck to ya. Better hope this isn't WiiU 2.0 where scalpers got fucked by lack of demand.

Dead by your definition seems to be where things are sold and your lack of insight in basic consumerism. I expect nothing less from someone who shills the Switch on a daily basis.

I'm district manager for a group of 6 gamestops in new mexico and we've got less than 100 switch preorders between all of them, and they're shipping to match, as opposed to in excess. It's a repeat of the wii. They're banking on getting mainstream media exposure with "woah look at how packed these stores are cause they're in such limited supply!" except no one's worried about it because they're not releasing around christmas.

The Q1 release was the stupidest fucking thing they could have done. Especially because sony and ms are both doing discounts on their systems, and beating the switch price at that.

Those are all Western games. Literally no one plays those.

You do realize that's every console's lineup right?

>someone was so butthurt about the positivity of the switch they made this retarded image

Good thing I already have a ps4 for those and p5, I can afford more than one console user

>Playstation and Xbox pay $10 every month and get multiple free games forever and ever

>Nintendo pay $15 yearly, get 1 game every month but you have to pay to keep it at the end

kek

What I mean is you are trying to piss me off by showing me your scalping but I couldn't care less

Vita is dead by all accounts. Buying shit from Japan is expensive as fuck.

whats it like living in denial

>Buying shit from Japan is expensive as fuck.
do you live in a third world BR shithole

I swear to god I saw them say the same thing about the xbone.

Again, your definition of "dead" is you being a moron.
The Switch is dead too, since I can't buy it anywhere.