| dharh said: Bolded: That is absolutely not correct. Previous gen _does_ absolultey factor into the next gen. How much of an impact it has, how good/bad the new product is going against previous gen sentiment may vary, but you can't discount people being burned/rewarded from a previous generation deciding to wait/skip or buy a next gen despite the performance. By most measures the PS3 launch was horrendous, yet the turn around kept all three console of that gen within 20%. I'm not ready to say by how much the Switch is being stunted by the abysmal performance of the Wii U, especially given the piss poor ability of Nintendo to make enough Switches, but I will without a doubt say that it has had an effect (even if it would be only 1%), myself included. You can't claim me a Nintendo hater to prove my sentiment invalid. |
I don't think you fully read his post properly as he didn't say a previous gen can't factor in a new one he said a previous gen doesn't guarantee what
people think will carry on into the new one this is what he means by staring at 0 as the are times the previous gen doesn't factor in at all as the are shifts
that can happen like the GC to Wii. For one Wii U is likely not going to hamper Switch performance in anyway because like DS the latter is a new brand and covers a market Wii U never had a hand in.
This is why it's doing well despite the loud minority in forums claiming prior that it won't do well as it's another shift they don't fully understand yet, if NS
went on to sell 100m are you really going to tell us that it could have sold much more if the Wii U didn't have problems.
