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thismeintiel on 15 March 2017
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DakonBlackblade said:
Jumpin said:

I think the Switch has the potential to be the biggest selling console since the DS or Wii in Europe. Mostly because it is has the correct form factor for the current market. The TV top console is in a steady decline. I predict the PS5 will be similar to the Switch, except 3-5X more powerful.

The TV top console is not in decline, PS4 + XOne sells more than PS3 + X360. What declined was the WiiU wich had 0 third party support and has no relation whatsoever with the amrket changing. Ive been rearing that the console market is declinign since the PS2 era and eyt it keeps growing.

The Switch will only sell well if it gets the 3rd party support or if Nintendo shifts its focus from 3DS to the Switch and officialize the second as a handheld and not a home console, caus elets face it it kinda is a portable, as a home console its very underwhelming.

Yea, not sure why he only mentions DS or Wii.  The PS2 is the best selling console in EU at 55M+.  And the PS1 and PS3 both beat the Wii's ~34M in EU.  Unless he's only talking Nintendo consoles.  Then, again, he doesn't mention the Gameboy, which also beat the Wii. 

Anyway, I highly doubt the Switch is going to match the DS's 52M, let alone beat it.  Not with its current $299 price and lacking in 3rd party support.  Support that will most likely get worse as more and more titles aim to push the PS4/XBO.  And then in a couple more years we will most likely be getting the PS5, which will most likely be ~6x more powerful than the OG PS4, making it a whopping 28x-30x more powerful than the Switch in docked mode.  That's just too big of a gap for devs to bother porting their AAA games to it.  Unless the Switch sells on its own merits, I think it will see 3rd party support fall somewhere in between the Wii U and 3DS.

And to suggest the PS5 will be a clone of the Switch is quite laughable.  The PS4 is doing great as a traditional home console, slightly outpacing the PS2 currently.  The PS5 will follow that tradition.  If Sony feels compelled to reenter the HH (or "hybrid") market, it will release a specific console for that.