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Wyrdness on 19 April 2017
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Slownenberg said:

Yeah I don't get why you think it will fail so miserably. The Switch is very obviously the successor to both the Wii U and the 3DS, It's a console that doubles as a portable, how is this not clear?? Of course Nintendo is gonna try to say Switch and 3DS will live alongside each other, they still want to sell the 3DS!! Didn't they say the same thing when talking about a 3 system strategy when they tried to say the DS and GBA would sell together with the console (or was it 3DS and DS?).

Two years from now 3DS sales should be dead and Nintendo should be able to sell perhaps a slightly smaller version of the Switch for under $200, picking up the handheld only people. With a release of a full fledged Pokemon game around then the Switch will start eating up their traditional handheld crowd.

As has been said, the Wii U + 3DS market is currently ~80 million and will be over 90 million by the time the 3DS is done selling. There is NO other handheld out or probably coming out anytime soon to compete for the 3DS market (and that's not even including the 15 million PSVita market). And it is pretty clear the Switch is going to be a lot more popular with console gamers than the Wii U, so the Switch selling the combined Wii U + 3DS market of ~90 million is a pretty good bet, give or take let's say 20 million. Saying it's gonna sell 20-25 million just honestly feels like trolling.

Don't forget the are around 15m Vita owners as well who also need their fill of portable gaming, if we're to take into account overlap of userbases (people who own more than one of these devices) I'd give a rough estimate of around 85m potential buyers.

When you factor in that many of the big hitters like Pokemon and AC (even another Zelda game will come to the platform) are still to come I just can't see only 20-25m being sold, we don't need to even take into account what their president said because not only do we have the GBA and DS situation as a reference but I recall he said at one point the were many more Wii U games to arrive.