@Daveof89: they did it with Switch, spending thousands there, and because most didn't buy when it was over $600 got hosed, forcing them to lower their markup dramatically (most will top around $500, with the majority sold for about $400).

If you didn't preorder it, expect ebay and Amazon with scalped prices your only chance. Fact, Nintendo NEVER overestimates demand, it's always underestimated...

@spartanx169x: "just so I can play them on long plane rides, long train rides, Waiting to get my hair cut, waiting at the DMV", but according to fanboys, the Switch isn't able to be played outside the house, because it's NOT a handheld, because it's to "co-exist with the 3DS" that's what fanboys keep yapping at least.

@Defender1978: unless you bought like 3 games, chances are nill they'll port all Wii U games, even Nintendo has some decency in getting people to buy them multiple times.

Get real, ports are only there in the beginning to fill in between big games. Once development gets rolling along on new games, who would want games from the prior generation? It's like wanting to play Super Mario Sunshine Deluxe in 2008 after Super Mario Odyssey came out.

@wexorian: Where do you think 90% of Vita sales came from dumbass?

@mundus: that's where Nintendo of America has to get over themselves, and see this as a handheld with constant revisions (ala 3DS), otherwise if they don't remake it every year like the 3DS saw, they won't continue to push hardware sales.

@tibua: Quit giving lifetime worldwide totals, they don't paint the whole picture. In Japan, the 3DS sold 25 million units, the majority of 3DS sales, but in Japan, the DS sold 34 million, it had 60 million going to Europe and 60 million to the Americas. How has the 3DS done in Europe and Americas? Less than Japan! There's about 23 million 3DS systems in the Americas versus about 60 million DS's in Americas. Clearly, the West isn't a handheld loving area like it was pre-mobile. Japan dropped too, but not nearly as much.

@heqteur: AHAHAHAHAA! That was a good laugh, the 3DS outsold the PS2 in Japan, and you said the Japanese are very much into home console! Yeah, that's why a handheld which has about 1/3 lifetime totals worldwide has outsold it in Japan? That's like saying in America the 3DS outsells mobile phones! I have to remember that joke that Japan has high console sales. That'll get a lot of laughs around the office from gamers who follow Japan!

@Alpaq: May has the highest sales for Japan, because of Golden Week. You'll see Sony especially hold tons of sales, and good god do their game sales drastically go up in May!