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RolStoppable said:
Soundwave said:

I didn't say the DS doesn't count, but the fact is it's very much the outlier for Nintendo platforms, not the normal range of their platforms, and likely the Switch is going to start to fall behind the DS fairly quickly here if it isn't already even with 20 million-range sales the next two years, the DS was a far stronger platform than even that. 

You want to argue with fanboys on the internet, stock price, yearly hardware totals are kind of a problem in your theory. 

There is no reason why Switch 1 and 2 can't co-exist for multiple years on top of that, they would be serving completely different parts of the market. 

Even if I wanted more processing power ... Nintendo has always benefitted from more processing power to make better games in the end. Breath of the Wild would be dog shit running on a Wii/3DS, it benefits from better hardware. It's better to want that than what ... your POV which is ... so you get to argue with Sony fans on a message board ... whoopity freaking doo, lol. 

Don't you realize how much you are contradicting yourself? You repeat over and over how it is about profitability and share price, but at the same time make the Switch vs. DS comparison purely about hardware sales. Shareholders won't care if Switch doesn't match the sales pace of the DS when Switch exceeds the DS's profitability due to higher profit margins on games, higher tie ratio, higher accessory sales and a subscription for an online service.

Switch and its successor can co-exist for a while (like 3DS and Switch did for a while), that's clear to everyone. The actual point of contention is if that transitional period should be 2022-2024 or later. The same co-existence can be done from 2025 to 2027, only that in that case Switch will have made use of its full potential instead of falling victim to rushing out a successor sooner than needed.

I'm not contradicting anything, you know I'm riding so you're moving goal posts. 

The point about year to year sales is Nintendo in 2022 is not going to be happy with "only" 10-11 million Switch shipments when they could be selling higher hardware totals between a Switch 2 + Switch 1 combined. 

"Full potential" is just some imaginary concept you have in your head to drive a hardware platform into the ground before replacing it, that's not in Nintendo's best interests by 2022 at all. They don't get any bonus trophy just for hitting LTD targets of a hardware platform. That's a nice bonus to have, but it's not the end game of how a business is run, investors only care what you are doing in that fiscal year, "well we peaked 2 years ago and now are on a down cycle, but keep our stock price high please" doesn't fly with investors.