Denial.

When you're sliding into first and you're feeling something burst, diarrhea, diarrhea.

Right...

The Switch launch has been a disaster. Nintendo failed to test the system to iron out bugs, and they completely bungled the design. Who was in charge of the hardware design and testing?

- Cheap plastic screens that are easily scratched by the very dock that Nintendo bundles with the Switch (and will take heavy abuse from normal daily use)
- Stuck/dead pixels and flickering screens
- Very poor wifi performance
- Frame rate issues for BotW when docked, yet the game only runs at 900p (a bad sign when the flagship game for the system can't perform well on the hardware, particularly in its docked mode)
- plastic clip parts on joycons that wear down over a short period of time when the joycons are removed and replaced during routine use (parts that are supposed to keep the units firmly attached to the Switch)
- Desynching issues with joycons
- Poor placement of charging port (can't charge while using the kickstand)

Really? My neighbor with 2 kids that had a Wii 7 years ago, that didn't know what the Switch was a month ago, knows all about the console now but for all the wrong reasons.
The only other family she knows with one has suffered 2 of the 10 main problems so far with the console.

Disc drive broke on my friends PS4 the other day, where's the uproar guys???

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau