Is Nintendo Switch really a success?

[Finale]

I have the impression this is a troll thread,but i'll answer anyway,since i have nothing better to do.

1- switch doesn't need to sell as much as wii u and 3ds combined to give nintendo profit, it's more expensive than the 3ds with games that cost more as well. Not to say 3ds was initially a bomb and wii u was a failure to the end. Also, switch still hasn't got to the second holiday season which can put it on par or above with the ps4,the console that rn is a success. Software sales are also stronger than ever, so i don't know what the concern with sales are here.

2- share drops happen all the time for a bunch of reasons, so if you want to use it as a metric for a company in general you have to look at it on an amount of time, not just a point. On march 3rd,when switch released,a share on nintendo was worth  around 21,000 yen ,now it's worth 41,000. I'd say we're fine in this front.

All the other points are either personal opinions like 3ds being a better portable(3ds never fitted in my pocket so i use the same bag to transport my switch as the one i used to carry my 3ds,not to say 3ds as a piece of hardware is awful imo) or lazily constructed(paid online is worth a discussion,but what you wrote is laughably simplistic and means nothing to the point you want to make.Sony is sucesseful now and have paid online, it's all about more profit.Nintendo would make online paid eventually even if they sold a 200 million more switches).

The one point i can give you is third parties not coming at large amounts, that can be improved. Still, we're having sucesseful cases of third party games there, so i wouldn't worry much about that. Tho it's true the better games are the nintendo games atm.

I believe switch will end up at around 90 million,nothing revolutionary,but a success overall. At this point in time however, looking at the price of the hardware and the amount of software sales, it's obviously a success if you just look at numbers for more than a minute.

Overall,i don't like most nintendo fans. They're loud and obnoxious and don't see past their little box with a logo. But i also hate trolls, so i thought i would try to debunk some bad critique i see on internet all the time.

Last edited by Finale - on 29 September 2018