You can use a big screen and controller with a PC. Bonus you don't have to pay for online.
@CBaoth "half its first party output is wii u ports"
This is a falsehood that needs to die. Out of 68 games Nintendo has published for the Switch only 10 of them are ports from the Wii U.
Everyone disagreeing with me will be eating their salt come late November when Switch overtakes the PS4. So keep em coming.
At about 300k per week shipped, Switch should outsell the PS4 by the first week of December of this year. However, since black Friday will come before that which boosts sales by a significant amount, Switch will probably outsell the PS4 a few weeks sooner.
Sony did this with the Playstation Classic too, and was one reason why I never got that mini console. Please update this Sony, there is no reason to lock this to 50hz today.
Do you mean for Europe? Because NTSC consoles have been 60hz for way longer than that.
Just as I thought, there was a boost in Switch hardware this week.
It's not just a licensing issue, it's a likeness issue. Genesis the primary Antagonist for over half the game, is based off of Gackt, a Japanese musician.
This means he (the musician) gets royalties and, apparently, he has a lot of legal issues going on currently making it harder.
Imo, they should remake the game. Same/similar story but no likeness to get in the way. It would go well with the remake IMO
I'll check back with you and the other disagree next week then
I believe next week there will be a boost for the Switch, given that deal that Nintendo provided right after announcing their FY results. However, this is probably going to be around the baseline for the next few months for the Switch. The other consoles will sell more or less depending on how much is produced, so they are harder to judge.
@Darth
Not at this point. The momentum has gone. In addition, Sony won't do that. With inflation, chip shortages, and the way technology doesn't decrease as rapidly to produce...PS4 wont get that price cut regardless.
There was a time period where they absolutely could have continued the momentum, but that was almost two years ago at this point.
Just to put the 107.5M unit number into perspective. It took the Switch 61 months to hit this number. For comparison:
-PS2 took 72 months to hit 103M
-NDS took 56 months to hit 107.7
-PS4 took 74 months to hit 106M
Pretty crazy stuff. Switch still has a lot of momentum too.
125M is less likely than 150M. They are currently at 107.5M. They expect 21M more sales from now until March 2023. That is 128.5M.
It's currently something like 20M units ahead of the PS4 in the same timeframe, and it's momentum is much stronger than PS4s was in 2019. To get anything less than 135M would take a miracle.
PS4 will never get to 130M units. In the last three months they've sold 100k units. PS4 wont even break 120M let alone 130M or as high as the PS2.
PS5 will definitely pickup at some point though
Some of what he says doesn't make sense. Iwata suggested 219 and Reggie said it wouldn't work due to the way that America retailers handle prices. It would have to be either 199 or 249 citing the fact that retailers would just charge 249 if the price was 219, thus consumers would be affected without Nintendo getting the profit. But when they dropped the price to 169 later on this literally didn't happen. Retailers still sold the 3DS for 169, they didn't increase the price to 1...
Nintendo's game library has been the same for over four decades? So, since before 1982? Seriously?
I don't want any of the manufacturers owning final fantasy or dragon quest.
I don't think it had to do with modding. Nintendo knows that raspberri Pi's exist. I think the NES classic was just a way to get extra money between the ending of the Wii U and the launch of the Switch. Hence why it was limited stock. The SNES was just a follow-up after seeing it's success
Yeah, I feel like the title implies that Xbox was best selling in units, but the Switch was. Oh well, no big deal
You people have awful sales predictions. 5 months on the market and you think it would have hit 20M without a chip shortage? Yeah...no, that never would have happened. Even the best selling consoles of all time weren't even close to that