Yeah same people said that to me when I said Splatoon would sell more than 2 million before years end. Or when I said Revolution would sell over 50 million. When I said Nitro (DS) would sell better than GBA. I seem to always be kidding myself huh. Also just saying it's possible,not a definite. Same as I said in years past. When Wii U launched I thought maybe it could match Gamecube at best and I was off there.

The Wii U has/had Mario Kart, Splatoon, Mario and Zelda games. Nobody cared about it then, I don't think the broad audience will suddenly love it. Outside of the Nintendo fans, no, Zelda and Mario are not exceptional games: everybody knows the names, but the families won't run in the stores to buy the latest Zelda. Skyrim is like other games, a late port, no real interest. It won't be nearly enough to compensate the usual marketing storms used by the big hitters like CoD, Battlefield, RDR2, maybe Destiny 2, and all the other big popular games the publishers like to launch at this moment, which won't launch on the Switch.

The fact that it's also an handheld won't be that big either IMO, it's just a tablet you can plug to your TV, it shouldn't impress anyone. And it's not a great handheld because of the battery, the 3DS is still a way better deal if you want to offer an handheld to your kids (and it has tons of games).

The worst part is the price. You can buy today a PS4 with a game at 300€, or even less (and like I said, there will most likely be a price cut before the holidays). With the Switch, it's at least that (and even 330€ here, in France), without any game, without the real controller (nor the ethernet adapter). It's simply too expensive to be competitive. Less powerful, way fewer games, no user base, but more expensive just because you can play a couple of hours with it as an handheld. A lot of people won't care about that enough to erase all the previous points. Why would you spend more money to buy that instead of the sure, popular and cheaper choice, if you're not a Nintendo fan? Nintendo will need to do a price cut too if they want a chance to win the holidays. But we know how Nintendo likes to keep their launch price...

Tagging this.

If serious?

With a 200 maybe even 180 ps4  and  the next uncharted. 

Best joke ever. 

Well yeah you're kidding yourself when you say switch could beat PS4. Lol mabye one month but thats it.

i would even be willing to give the switch 6 months of beating the PS4. Or however quickly they can make and ship 5-7M units.

There has to be at least 5M hardcore nintendo fans out there and at least another 3M neutrals.

But I do not see this thing having legs.

And no one seems to be talking about how it costs $80 for a pro controller. Or $50 for each half of the joycon controller.

I really do wonder though, anyone that thinks this will do well.... on what grounds are they making that assumption?

Of course it cannot compete in a head to head competition, since the PS4 has more than a 3 year advantage.But the first year is already alot better than the Wii u, and personally better than the PS4 first year.

Switch problem lies into acessories prices and the stupid online payment.