RolStoppable said:
And Wii sold over 100m and Switch will sell over 100m. Then you consider the handheld market in the previous two generations and it's clear as day that PlayStation (and Xbox) aren't even remotely close to being the be all, end all in the console market. There is large demand for consoles that are not like PS and Xbox, and that's the expectation that the market has towards Nintendo and it has been proven time and time again. With the Wii U at E3 2012, Nintendo spent more time on AAA third party games than their own games. As if the important thing would be to have the same games as PS and Xbox. Nintendo was very wrong, but that's part of the reason how the Gamepad came to be. Third parties wanted a dual analog controller and the hook that Nintendo came up with was not as commonly mistakingly believed to emulate tablets, but the revival of the failed multi-screen idea that existed on the GameCube with the GBA connectivity. That's why it's no coincidence that The Wind Waker was remastered (used the GBA link on the GC) and that Nintendo Land featured game ideas that were present in Pac-man Vs. (another GC game). The Wii U was intended to support more than one Gamepad, but that idea got shelved because it was already too much of a challenge to sell the console with one Gamepad. |
Well Sony has been for the most part the HOME console market King since 1995. The PS4 will come close to doing PS2 numbers. The Switch remains a portable, with the lite iteration it is clear it is the 3DS successor more so than the WiiU's. You can't say that Sony sucks...or even Microsoft let's be honest, they dropped the ball with the Xbox one. But before it the Xbox and the 360 offered some amazing game experiences in the OG Xbox's case not possible on competing systems. The OG Xbox out sold the Cube because it was a behemoth in horse power at the time, and had some amazing games. Halo, and Halo 2, Forza, Ninja Gaiden, Half Life 2, KOTOR, Jade Empire, Chronicles of Riddick. The sports and multiplats ran like a dream. It was a very good first attempt from the company. It was also the first console with an integrated HDD.
I say all this as a Nintendo fan, I have owned their consoles because I am a Zelda fan. But there are experiences I can't get on their systems and vice versa. The Switch has been a magnificent success but it has alot of stuff going for it, and being the most powerful handheld gaming system has helped. It has the horsepower to run some of the big selling AAA games (with some cut backs) and that has been huge for it.
