I actually agree - it won't sell near Wii. It will actually (or at least has the potential to) sell far better than the Wii. Remember, Switch is also a portable, and Nintendo has almost completely dominated in the portable industry. Nintendo has sold almost 120 million Gameboys and over 150 million DS's. Why couldn't the Switch perform similarly? People only seem to like using the "Switch is a portable" argument mainly to undermine them - but it works the other way too.

Don't get me wrong, I still think something like 80 million is far more realistic, but if the platform gets a steady stream of solid games, gets a redesign or two, and gets supported by Nintendo for 8-10 years, who knows? The sky is the limit. 

Jesus, why are you always talking about the Switch phone? It is a terrible idea that will never work.

The reason why mobile games do so well is that they are free (or at least are free with microtransactions). No one will pay $60 a game to play on a phone. Heck, even Mario run was hated with its price tag. Think before posting.

The Switch is currently doing well, but I know everyone is interested in how it will do in the long run.

My estimate was pretty conservative since the NX hybrid-rumour days. I had 50 million as worst case scenario and 80 million as best case scenario. How the Switch does in the end will be neat to see.

This is almost exactly where I stand, if Nintendo sticks to a 5 year lifespan and moves on afterwards without many bundles and no redesigns - though like I said in my previous post, a redesign or two and a deticated effort be Nintendo to support the console for an additional 3-5 years, and we could be seeing greater numbers even than that.

Probably; I just felt like having a pessimistic goal this time. I had 50 million for the Wii U, and I was sure Nintendo would rebound from their mistakes. 

OT- With pachter's predictions, the Switch will move on to sell 1 billion units by 2018.

It will probably be around in that ballpark to be honest but if it manages to sell lower than 50 million I'll consider it a failure.

It all depends on if the "Switch" hardware line is continued under incremental revisions similar to the Game Boy or DS line of hardware (i.e. GB, GB Pocket, GB Color etc), in which case I believe total unit sales of all Switch variants would top 100 mil worldwide. I think the current iteration of the Switch will peak at about 60-65 mil units.

"Master Analyst". Okay? So we finally reach that limit, when things stop being funny and get worrisome?

At the current rate the Switch is selling, looks like it'll surpass the Wii U this year. That's with production issues; it'll probably be higher as the bidding war slows down

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