80+ Million Switches Need to be Sold in 5 Years or it's a Failure

[potato_hamster]

Pyro as Bill said:

potato_hamster said:
For your statement to have any merit, you need to prove the assumption that the Nintendo Switch is Nintendo's flagship handheld going forward. Because so far, Nintendo has directly contradicted that assumption every chance they have gotten.

So far, all we know is that the Switch has replaced the Wii U. They're still selling/making new 3DS/2DS models. It's entirely plausible that Nintendo will release another handheld system in the next year or so that does not play Switch cartridges, and that should surprise no one if they do.

3 portables all playing different games/cartridges?

Where does this new portable fall power wise? Above 3DS but below an undocked Switch?

Nintendo will do no such thing and that shouldn't be a suprise to anyone.

Well no. See you're looking at it from your perspective, not Nintendo's. See, the Switch in this case would not be a portable console, and the new handheld would replace the 3DS. So it would be one home console, and one portable console, both playing different games/cartridges - like how the Gameboy and Super Nintendo took different games/cartridges. This is not a hard concept.

Here you are thinking that Nintendo makes business decisions for reasons that make sense. If you're so confident that they do, please go ahead and direct me to the nearest big box store that has a entire display of NES Classics, complete with stacks of additional controllers for people to buy. I know people that refuse to buy a Switch because of how horribly Nintendo dropped the ball on the NES Classic.