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

[potato_hamster]

Soundwave 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.

What would such a system even be?

3DS = roughly a portable PS2/GameCube

Switch (undocked) = a portable PS3/Wii U

Something in between the two would be pointless and simply keep Nintendo's top games (ie: Splatoon, BoTW, Mario Odyessy) away from a big chunk of their audience. 

You might as well just take the Tegra X1, die shrink it to 16nm or 10nm and make a smaller 3DS XL size model if that's what you're dying to have. You'd actually have to pay more money to develop a new chip that's inferior for no reason. 

Who said it had to be less powerful? It just would need to be cheaper and most importantly, accept different cartridges.