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Slimebeast on 24 October 2016
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naruball said:
KungKras said:

The thing is supposed replace both Nintendo's handheld market and home console market. So it needs to do equal or better numbers to 3DS plus Wii U sales to be considered a success.

And I think it can pull it off. It's going to get at least double the games of a usual Nintendo platform. I think that is going to help exponentially.

Again. Being realistic is important here. If Apple were to replace ipads and iphones with something in between, it'd be unrealistic for the new product to do better than the two, especially if their numbers were down year after year. So a huge success would be to do 80% of that.

Also, keep in mind that people kept buying several 3ds' and that most likely won't be the case with NS. But since software sales matter more than hardware, it wouldn't be that bad if it sold less units but just as much software.

Yeah, it's naive to think you can just add 3DS sales of 60 million with Wii U of 15 million (?) and demand that the Switch sells 75 million.

Plus, foam what we know so far this is a very powerful handheld and therefore not even comparable with the 3DS directly, and even less comparable with the Wii U.

One must ask the question: in the age of smartphones and tablets and huge competition from Samsung and Apple, what's considered a success for Nintendo if they release a "luxury version" of the 3DS at $299 (most likely the launch price)?

In that context I think 59 million in a relatively short lifespan of 5 years (until the follow-up device is released) must be considered a huge success.