{"id":2754,"date":"2016-10-27T20:31:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T03:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/?p=2754"},"modified":"2016-10-27T20:31:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T03:31:47","slug":"release-strategy-of-nintendo-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/2016\/10\/27\/release-strategy-of-nintendo-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Release Strategy of Nintendo Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been a Nintendo fan most of my life. I don\u2019t actually remember a time in my life before I had a GameBoy with Pok\u00e9mon. My favorite video game to this day is Super Smash Bros Melee, a game which feature characters from Nintendo\u2019s most popular franchises, released all the way back in 2001. However, Nintendo\u2019s most recent console, the Wii U, hasn\u2019t done very well compared to higher capacity rivals, the Sony PS4 and the Microsoft Xbox One. This Forbes article<\/a> talks about Nintendo\u2019s odd release strategy of the New Nintendo Switch, which is due to be out in March 2017, two months after they will release the specs about the console and the games that will launch with it. This also seems odd, considering it\u2019s after the Holidays (the previous two generations of video game consoles were released before Christmas for all three companies), and after the release of the Xbox One S and the PS4 Pro. This is also a relatively small amount of time between announcing the console and launching it. All of this would lead me to expect to dampened sales. Maybe it will work out for Nintendo, but with sluggish sales of its previous console, Nintendo can\u2019t afford to mess this up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been a Nintendo fan most of my life. I don\u2019t actually remember a time in my life before I had a GameBoy with Pok\u00e9mon. My favorite video game to this day is Super Smash Bros Melee, a game which feature characters from Nintendo\u2019s most popular franchises, released all the way back in 2001. However, Nintendo\u2019s most recent console, the Wii U, hasn\u2019t done very well compared to higher capacity rivals, the Sony PS4 and the Microsoft Xbox One. This Forbes article talks about Nintendo\u2019s odd release strategy of the New Nintendo Switch, which is due to be out in Continue reading Release Strategy of Nintendo Switch<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":500,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[558,559,127],"class_list":["post-2754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-nintendo","tag-oligopolistic-competition","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2755,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions\/2755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}