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bonzobanana on 21 January 2017
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LurkerJ said:
Soundwave said:

3DS successor is not selling 20-30 million life time unless there's a disaster, don't believe Nintendo's PR line, as 2018 goes on they will position it more as the 3DS replacement. They want to sell 3DS for another year and buy some time to get the price down on the Switch while gouging early adopters. 

Lets not be naive as to what's going on here. 

 

Soundwave said:
There will be a Switch mini eventually, but I'll make a prediction and say the regular large screen table style Switch will still remain the no.1 selling model.

People are going to want to the bigger screen especially with the level of visuals the Switch can generate, you don't want to play Zelda: BoTW or Mario Odyessy on a tiny screen. And kids love the tablet form factor so that's not an issue.

A+.

3DS owners are Nintenodo's primary audience. 

I honestly can't see the Switch filling the shoes of 3DS, the whole format, pricing and content is wrong.  Could it be a competitive product with tablets and mobiles in general again I don't think so. I don't know what level of apps support the Switch will have but I feel much functionality people expect won't be provided including email, internet browsing, taking photos, youtube, mp3, video, streaming services etc in addition to games. Will Switch games be competitive with android and ios games I don't think so. 

People may even be expecting to get Nintendo games on android and Ios now what with Mario run etc.

I'm not saying the Switch can't be successful but I certainly can't see it succeeding with the current sku and pricing. That is a total lemon. Nintendo just don't make any effort to be competitive nowadays and the Switch takes it even further into a niche.