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Re:Switch Is Nintendo's 'Fastest Selling' System in History by slantyyz on Monday April 17, 2017 @12:28PM (#14132174)
But unlike the original Wii, there's no Wii Sports to get people who would normally not even buy a console to buy in.
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Re:Switch Is Nintendo's 'Fastest Selling' System in History by drzaiusapelord on Monday April 17, 2017 @01:00PM (#14132494)
The Wii and Wii sports was a freakshow level of success. It tapped into a lot of things Nintendo simply is not going to be able to reproduce: aging gamers with few casual gaming outlets, the novelty of motion controls, half the cost of a xbox/ps, etc.

It really had no competitors. PS Move, while a nice technical effort, came too late and didn't have the developer support needed. The Kinect failed also for the same reasons on top of lacking a holdable controller so Kinect-games were ultimately forced to be super simple as waving and moving around can only do so much.

The Wii U had these types of games and they didn't blow up like the original Wii. I think its fair to say no one expected the Wii to take off like it did and unrealistic to expect Nintendo to follow the same formula and to get the same results. If anything, motion control games died fairly quickly as the fad ran itself out and are only coming back now as a much needed accessory for pricey VR systems.

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Re:Switch Is Nintendo's 'Fastest Selling' System in History by slantyyz on Monday April 17, 2017 @01:17PM (#14132649)
To a much lesser degree, Brain Age did the same for the Nintendo DS. It expanded the DS market to a lot of non-traditional buyers.
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Re:Switch Is Nintendo's 'Fastest Selling' System in History by MBCook on Monday April 17, 2017 @02:05PM (#14133059)
Nintendogs also caused a huge jump in sales.
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Re:Switch Is Nintendo's 'Fastest Selling' System in History by Joeri on Monday April 17, 2017 @03:09PM (#14133575)
The wii is still really fun and quite different as gaming experience from regular consoles. I booted it up today just for fun and ended up playing mario galaxy for hours with my 5yo cheering me on. Playing my ps4 is also fun, but not as relaxing and definitely not as approachable.
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Re:Switch Is Nintendo's 'Fastest Selling' System in History by fredleblanc on Monday April 17, 2017 @12:40PM (#14132300)
To be fair, the Wii U had these — arguably better versions of all the sports — and that wasn't a large draw for that.
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Re:Switch Is Nintendo's 'Fastest Selling' System in History by slantyyz on Monday April 17, 2017 @12:49PM (#14132396)
To me, part of the problem was that Wii Sports Club for WiiU wasn't a free pack in.
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Re:Switch Is Nintendo's 'Fastest Selling' System in History by Apocryphon on Monday April 17, 2017 @01:46PM (#14132906)
What about 1-2 Switch?
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Re:Switch Is Nintendo's 'Fastest Selling' System in History by MBCook on Monday April 17, 2017 @02:05PM (#14133050)
Reviews haven't been very friendly to 1-2 Switch. Seems like it should have been a freebie/pack-in or at least very cheap (say $10-20).
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Re:Switch Is Nintendo's 'Fastest Selling' System in History by ajmurmann on Monday April 17, 2017 @04:15PM (#14134026)
This to me is up there in dumb Nintendo decisions together with calling it "Wii U" and discontinuing the mini NES. Did they really think anybody would pay $50 for that? 1-2 Switch like Wii Sports was a perfect demo of the system and everybody should get it for free to entice them.
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