Kresnik said:
The dedicated market in general has been on the decline lately. I think it's absurd to expect 3DS + Wii U sales from Switch at this stage. If it gets it, great, but I wouldn't count on it. There have been precious few consoles in recent years selling mid-range like you're describing. They're either huge (DS/PS2); enough to be a success (Wii/360/PS3/PSP) or a disaster (Wii U/Vita/GC/Xbox). PS4 and 3DS seem to be heading to 70-80m+ which I'd lump with the Wii/360 group. I'm not sure how I'd classify a console that sold 40-50m. XB1 might finish around that and possibly Switch too. It's what SNES sold, and that was a success, but it was also 27 years ago and the market has changed substantially since then. |
That milestone is crazy (wiiu+3ds). In terms of tiers for the companies i say most successful would be...
PS2-DS (i dont kno which was the bigger $$$)
Wii (only because of the 1st party $$$)
PS1-GB/GBC
Those are the top 5 with ps4 easily going to be in the top 3 at this point. (Dunno where itll end yet)
After that i guess it would be psp-nes-snes-gba.
Im hoping switch will be in that group. X1 still an unknown factor. I think ita around 30mil by now lol