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

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Darwinianevolution said:

DroidKnight said:

Again I think optics is important, that would appear as a 10 million Nintendo user base decline.

That is debatable. If their userbase goes down by 10m but their software sale goes up 50% (random number), they still get more profits. And with their two big markets fused, they are going to sell way more games than with two different consoles.

Also, Nintendo only had to pay R&D costs for one new console, not two. So the cost of entry for Switch is much lower than the cost of entry for New Console + New Handheld.