It's about time - cutting out 1.4 billion people from getting your console is just stupid.
All my friends in India play Nintendo games on their PCs because they have no other option.
Nintendo has relied way too heavily on Japan and the U.S. for most of its software and hardware sales for far too long and needs to look at other markets.
PlayStation is the dominant gaming brand globally because Sony sells the console in most markets and they have been very aggressive about it.
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1.4 billion people using the Switch.. wow.
I'm shocked to see my friend's tweet end up here, lol.
Isn't Switch 2 already released in India??
They never released Switch 1 before ❓
There's a reason they launched so late. The total addressable market was far smaller than the effort required to launch, so they skipped India. Companies do a lot of research before committing, unless there's some legal or bureaucratic hurdle.
So they decided to dump the old stock of Nintendo e-waste in India like it's some third-world country.
The market is probably not even 1 million, let alone 1.4 billion.
Lmao. The market would have already bought the consoles through third parties.
It's pointless to release now unless it's extremely cheap.
Also it's Switch 1. Like what the heck, lmao? When are they going to release Switch 2? After PS7?
Wake me up when Steam releases its hardware in India.
Yeah, it's pretty obvious how this will go.
They release the Switch 1 because that's the leftover stock they have, and it's not selling elsewhere.
Casual gamers see Nintendo, think gaming, and buy the Switch, not realizing Nintendo games are, by and large, expensive as hell, with discounts and sales being both infrequent and minimal.
People don't buy Nintendo games because the average Indian's PPP is quite low compared to the West.
Nintendo says there's no demand for their products in India and pulls out.
It won't work.
My friend sold his Switch and got a ROG Ally and he's really happy.
Reason: You don't want to spend 4,000 INR on a game that released a decade ago.
Nintendo has been targeting the young crowd in the US and Japan, mainly the US, with flashy products, but that won't work in India. They know that.