Polygon: The Nintendo Switch has become the system people love to love

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NintendoPie said:

AlfredoTurkey said:

If The Switch goes on to win the 9th generation, or for that fact, seriously compete, we all just need to accept that Nintendo is the greatest gaming company of all time. For a company to be able to reinvent itself and come back from death over and over again, it's just unheard of.

Doubtful. Expect made-up excuses for success and some previously unknown group of people that Nintendo tapped into that they'll "never be able to get back, anyway."

I get your point, but their gaining then losing 150m customers in 1 generation certainly wasn't typical :p 

It's silly for someone to say those markets can't be tabbed again though. They've not disappeared, just moved. All it would take to bring them "back" is a product that appeals to them. I'm sceptical that the Switch will be that system (so far its success seems about what i'd expect from a combination of Nintendo's traditional home and handheld market appeal), but it's certainly not impossible.

For some reason Sony's losses in that shift aren't discussed much either. Both Nintendo's presence in the home console market and Sony's in the handheld market were effectively wiped out in a single generation, and little of those huge losses translating in gains for their competition. That's pretty nuts.