(Update: 100 million mark reached!)Prediction:Switch will go on to sell 100+ million units

[zorg1000]

Soundwave said:

zorg1000 said:

No way in hell Nintendo will be happy with 50 million, that will be close to a 40% decline from 3DS+Wii U.

It would be more along the lines of 30% decline, most Wii U owners are the most hardcore Nintendo fans, they likely own a 3DS in many cases as Wii U really failed to break out to a wider audience beyond the same ol' Nintendo fans. 

But their business will be different in the future, Switch is only one pillar, mobile apps will be a huge money maker for them and movies will probably factor into that too. 

50 million Switch + being one of the biggest mobile app makers in the world + movies/merchandising/theme parks > 3DS + Wii U. 

Unified userbase will increase the general sales of games like Splatoon and Mario Maker too. 

I think Switch is a more practical platform designed to "stop the bleeding" as it were from the last gen. The amount of losses they took from the Wii/DS to Wii U/3DS was catastrophic. 

Regardless of multi-device owners, that is still a 40% decrease in unit sales which is the exact opposite of "stop the bleeding" and will not make them happy.