The_Liquid_Laser said:
I have been thinking about this. When Nintendo projected 18m for the current fiscal year, I thought it was stupidly low. However if that only counts the Switch and not the Switch Lite, then I think 18m is about right. Kind of depends on what they meant. |
They had to have known that Switch Lite was releasing, but then they also count Switch Lite as part of the same family, not a separate console, like DS Lite was to the original DS. So maybe they were figuring that Switch Lite would eat into the flagship Switch's sales as some people that might otherwise have stopped holding out for an all handheld version and bought the flagship Switch suddenly had their hopes answered and would be buying the Lite. But then again, they should be counting or hoping to count the Lite's sales in with the flagship Switch's sales, so why would they lowball it? My thought is that maybe they're waiting to see how public perception plays out, so that if shareholders regard Lite's sales separately and want to see the target met with just the flagship console, they have a lower goalpost to fall back on, but if things play out as they hope and they convince everyone that Lite is just a Switch that doesn't hook to the TV or detach controllers, then they get to add the Lite's sales to the flagship Switch and absolutely blow past their goalpost, impressing investors either way. It would be like getting to add 3DS and Wii U together as a single sales target back in that era, which would have been a godsend then, but is just a thick layer of icing on an already sweet cake nowadays.
