Nintendo's install base shrunk from 250 million in Gen 7 to ~80 million in Gen 8

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Zod95 said:

zorg1000 said:

when you factor in the overlap of people who purchase both a handheld & home console each generation and now only need to buy a single device than yes 80 million is a good number.

regardless i dont consider something a success based solely on hardware numbers things like software sales & profit have to be taken into account as well. if Nintendo sells 80 million units of Switch over the course of 5-6 years, sells a few hundred million units of 1st party software, a few hundred million units of 3rd party software and makes the company a few billion dollars in profit than yes it would undeniably be a success.

Let's just consider that SW sales and profits are proportional to HW sales. 80M is what Nintendo made last gen while crying in agony. How's that going to be a success this gen?

Don't take me wrong. I believe (because NS can overlap clients from 2 shrinking markets) that 80M is ok. But to call it a success? No way.

So NES, SNES, Saturn and XBOX360 were all failures according to this logic lol. 

Now that Nintendo fans don't need to buy two seperate systems anymore they have more money left to buy games. The Switch will see a big increase in software sales.