Kimishima expects Switch sales to reach Wii levels

[Kai_Mao]

KLAMarine said:

TaMpAbLaCk said:

Poor Nintendo! lol Wii levels?!.. This is the final nail in Nintendo's coffin for consoles. It will be handheld only & probably leasing it's 1st party games to Sony, Microsoft, Steam. I grew up with NES! I loved NIN! I had a day 1 NES, SNES, N64, GameCube. Unfortunaley they did not grow with me like PlayStation did so I left Nintendo for good after GameCube & it has only gotten worse since the early 00's. smh

Don't feel bad for Nintendo, they have a lot of money on reserve (the Wii and DS years have been very good to them and just recently they posted a healthy profit). And as much as I'd love to have Nintendo's games on PS4, Xbox 1, and especially PC, it ain't happening any time soon. Just how this industry works, sadly.

I'm sure fans of all these consoles and such would love to have games from their competitors. Why wish for either one of them to go down? Nintendo wants to go their path why not let them decide how to integrate their hardware with their software? They've been doing that since the NES days.

As for Kimishima's expectation, I guess that's fine if he thinks that way. He's certainly not gonna predict less than Wii U and not show signs of uncertainty. What partly made the DS and Wii successful was Nintendo's non-wavering confidence in those systems. Iwata, from Gaming Historian, believed in those products even when the DS had a slow start and the Wii was being doubted by analysts and gamers. I don't necessarily believe the Switch will reach those type of sales, but I think they'll be proditable, which is the bottom line at the end of the day.