Global Hardware 11 January 2020

[The_Liquid_Laser]

Bofferbrauer2 said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

There is no way to know what specific games are coming out this year until the next Direct from Nintendo.  One thing we can say is that Nintendo will keep putting out first party games at roughly the same rate that they have been.

People keep wondering why the Switch is selling so well and ask how long can it last.  After all Nintendo systems never sell this well right?  Well this is the first time in decades when Nintendo could put all of their first party resources on one system instead of splitting them up between home and handheld systems.  Perhaps it would be more informative to look at the NES?  After all that is the only other time Nintendo could devote all of their resources to one system.  It also just happened to be the most dominant console in gaming history*.

*outside of Europe and Brazil, where Nintendo struggled. Hard!

I suppose my statement only really applies to Japan and the US which were easily the two biggest markets at the time.  The NES was extremely dominant in the two main markets, especially the US.

Japan: 
NES 19.35m  (85%)
Sega 3.52m (15%)

US:
NES 33.29m (92%)
SMS 2m (6%)
Atari 7800 1m (3%)