Topic: Nintendo Switch Launch Lineup - About 17 Minutes.

[Adrock]

You are absolutely right.  Nintendo needs to think about the Switch competing with other TABLETS not consoles.

No.

Switch is a games machine, and Nintendo should be focused on delivering on that end. No use trying to out-iPad the iPad. Netflix, Hulu, YouTube etc. are secondary applications that are nice to have and should absolutely be there but shouldn't distract from the primary message. People should be buying a Switch to play video games.

Nintendo has a chance to take over the Tablet industry. Tablet sales are slacking and Nintendo has a better product.

Tablet sales have been declining because there isn't a great reason to upgrade every year. Even so, Nintendo has no chance of touching the tablet market because Switch isn't a tablet. It's a games machine. Switch won't get 1% of what's on the App Store/Google Play Store, and it doesn't need to. Nintendo's end goal is convincing people Switch can coexist with Playstation 4 and Xbox One.

[Spak-Spang]

Adrock:  If people look at the Switch not docked, they are going to immediately compare and think of it like a tablet. 

Yes, Nintendo should not market it as a tablet, but should market it as a video game console, but Nintendo needs to recognize that someone looking to purchase a tablet MIGHT look at a Nintendo Switch...heck even for the reason you mentioned, there isn't much reason to upgrade....but you know what you shouldn't be upgrading your phones and tablets or electronics every 2-3 years honestly.  They should be investments for at least 5-6 years, if not longer if possible.  The point is people could consider buying your device if it has common things that they want in a tablet, and they could also refuse to buy it, if they think buying a tablet might be a better investment.

[Adrock]

People might compare Switch to a tablet, but that still doesn't make Switch a tablet. As soon as anyone does even a minimum amount of research, they should figure that out. The Joycons should be a dead giveaway. In the event that anyone is really that confused, it's in Nintendo's best interest to make it abundantly clear that Switch isn't a tablet because the last thing Nintendo needs is people thinking Switch mostly (or worse, only) plays touchscreen games like Candy Crush Saga. If Nintendo ever wants to be taken seriously in the console space again, it needs to really nail the marketing. What is Switch supposed to be? Not a tablet, that's for sure.

[Spak-Spang]

I can agree with that.

And I think the reveal trailer did a good job of marketing the device correctly.  I think Nintendo needs to continue that style of marketing.  Focus on the games.  Show the in both modes console and handheld whenever you are marketing the console.  If you are marketing a game still try to show the transition.

I could see the tag image of every commercial for games being someone pulling the device out of the dock to travel, followed by the Switch logo snap animation.

[ThePerm]

To put it in perspective. The video game console industry in America crashed because Atari couldn't  handle their ****. Nintendo had resistance to getting the NES into stores. So, they packaged it with a Toy robot. A trojan horse.

I say Nintendo has a better product and I mean it. It has better graphic capabilities than tablets and standardized controllers, which tablets lack. It's better than a tablet, but that doesn't mean Nintendo shouldn't see all other devices as competition. Nintendo will be disrupting the tablet market whether Apple and Samsung like it or not. It's  not a tablet, it's not a handheld, it's not a console, it's not a laptop. It's a Switch.

[ThePerm]

something like 225 hours remain.

8pm Pacific 11pm Eastern.

[ThePerm]

[ShyGuy]

One week since you looked at me
Cocked your head to the side and said
I'm angry

[Evan_B]

With your avatar and title, I would have accepted "I'm Batman"

[ThePerm]

6 days

[ThePerm]

[Evan_B]

My body is something something.

[Lemonade]

I cant wait for the Switch presentation, I new hardware is so exciting!

It starts at 12 noon for me and then the Treehouse Live is at 10:30PM, so Im going to stay up to watch that too. Its a good thing its on a friday night.

[ThePerm]

[ThePerm]

[King of Twitch]

[Soren]

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