Can the Switch attract new gamers?

[Soundwave]

RolStoppable said:

Soundwave said:

Yes the 3DS collapsed from 150 million to 60 million and smartphones have had nothing to do with it and a small 20% bump for 3DS in its waning years from like 100 million people playing Pokemon Go makes up for that. Sure boss. 

I'm glad the Wii casuals are gone and playing games on their smartphones and tablets instead, why would I throw a fit over them not showing up? They weren't Nintendo fans to begin with really. 

Lets see how 1,2 Switch does, if there is this magical audience out there willing to pay $50 for games like this, it should be evident. But if it goes the same way Wii Music and Wii Fit U and Wii Party U and Wii Sports Club and Nintendogs + cats and Brain Training 3DS and Kinect Sports for XB1 did ... 

Changing the arguments again, I see. And setting up a strawman too.

My points are clear. If you want to argue that smartphones have benfitted Nintendo hardware overall, please proceed and make that case. 

I'm happy the Wii audience left. Good riddance, they were never willing to give games like Metroid or anything more complex than a 2D Mario a fair chance and they can enjoy stuff like Clash of Clans and Flappy Bird for what they value gaming for -- free or 99 pennies. So that point about me being upset that they're gone .... nope. If Wii U had to die to show that to Nintendo, so be it. 

I hope they stay away too, and it doesn't look like I have much to worry about if 1,2 Switch is what Nintendo thinks will bring them back. Nintendo have been horrible at reading the casual audience for a long time now, the last time they had a casual blockbuster hit Britney Spears still had a career. This isn't a 2-3 year slump, they haven't done anything new and exciting for this audience for like a decade now, not just with Wii/Wii U but DS/3DS too. Touch/Waggle Generations has been a whole lot of fail for a long time.