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Kerotan on 09 March 2017
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Mnementh said:
Kerotan said:

Switch is a succesor to both the 3DS and the Wii U.  So it needs to be compared to them both combined. And it's not beating their combined launches anywhere.  Basically Nintendo's market share is going to decrease compared to last gen if this is really succeeding both handheld and home. 

Well, it's not beating 3DS alone, so not combined.

I'm not sure combined works though. I owned both WiiU and 3DS. To be exact, I owned over the the time 4 3DS. I doubt I'll own 5 Switches. So I don't buy into the argument it should make the combined numbers. It replaces both WiiU and 3DS, so I need only half as much devices.

I think we need a new baseline for hybrids.

Oh yeah you're definitely right.  Many Nintendo fans in the past had multiple handhelds over the same gen thus inflating the sales.  I've 2 younger sisters and they went through something like 6 DS's between them because they kept on breaking them.  

 

So we need to consider the handicap that Switch probably won't be bought multiple times by the same fans.  So maybe Switch vs (3DS + Wii U) and we subtract 30% of the 3DS sales?