Repost: Emily Rogers "Why you should be excited about (Switch)’s software output"

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Lawlight said:

zorg1000 said:

3DS & Wii U were both sold at a loss at certain points of their lives, if Switch is sold at a profit from day 1 than it can potentially be more profitable than 3DS/Wii U were even if it sells less.

Also we have no idea how well Switch will sell, for all we know it could become a massive hit, there is literally nothing to base sales on at this point.

There's plenty to base sales on - history and trends being a couple of those.

History and trends mean jack shit, if they could accurately predict sales than Wii would have sold less than GC, PS3 would have had over 70% marketshare like PS1/PS2 did, PSP would have taken over the handheld market from Nintendo like they did with consoles instead of DS dominating and the Xbox brand would have went the way of CD-i, 3DO, Apple Pippin since no American company had a successful console in over 20 years.

Last generation is proof that history and trends dont mean anything when talking about future success/failures.