Eeh. It's still the lowest selling handheld, and was Nintendo's first step towards their consecutive quarterly losses, for the first time in the company's history! It redeemed itself after the XL revision and/or holiday 2013 (when Zelda and Pokemon came out), I would say, but it's nothing to applaude Nintendo for.

Until it gets its own South Park episode, the hype is not real.

Yes, but none of previous dedicated handheld gaming devices didn't had huge competition of smartphones and tablets. Like I wrote, 70m+ for dedicated handheld gaming device in age of smartphones and tablets is definatly success.

Well they did have a dreamcast one (kinda) so that theory doesnt really hold up..

I remember being as hyped as Cartman before the Wii came out. I wanted to freeze mysele too lol

Well after reading all these comments I believe you are correct. When I made this thread I was missing a lot of information, that now I took in account. Bad thing is, right now I dont have money and NS is way too expensive in Mexico. You can almost buy one and a half ps4 bundled with a game, with the money for one NS.

Hopefuls are the ones affirming that Switch is bonded to fail because it doesn't match their preferences.

How could you possibly know? There can be N reasons for someone to buy a switch during the launch. You can't attribute just one for a group of many individuals.

It is funny when I see Sony fans so down on Switch as it is essentially a Super-Vita in addition to a Wii/3DS successor. It even has a lot of Vita games like Disgea 5, Setsuna, Binding of Isaac, etc. And will probably have Vita devs making games for it as the handheld is now several years old with no signs of a successor. 

But you know, it's Nintendo so some are just inherently not interested. 

Even if the Switch fails shortly after launch with a big sales drop, there is still possible success with a price drop, bundle or later revision. It's not like the current model and pricing is permanent. Many models have initially had low sales but then other factors came in. Bulk of most console sales are always at a much lower price level often with a model revision. As we can see there are some issues with the current Switch and pricing is a bit excessive to say the least but come Christmas 2018 we may be fighting tooth and nail to beat other customers to buy Switches.

I'm not interested in buying now but reckon I'll be very keen later with a model revision and lower pricing and a wider range of cheaper games available. So am I judging Switch by the release version or what I expect to come later.

Nintendo fans sacrificed themselves and bought lots of Wii U's. And now they are buying lots of games to increase the attach rate of the Switch.

Nintendo fans truly are the best.

I'll get it eventually. But I'm definitely not paying $300 for it.