Soundwave said:
Yes, but Switch is selling just fine without benefit of a casual blockbuster at all, so it seems like even Nintendo has found the formula for success without needing a Wii Sports/Brain Training/Nintendogs to carry them. Good marketing, sleek hardware, tangiable hardware convienance, with relatively decent hardware (given reasonable limitations of a mobile chip), and really great, epic launch title work. Go figure. |
Absolutely, Switch scores high on convenience factor for many and the price is somewhat reasonable, especially compared to the Wii U and even though I'm not a huge fan of its design or its hybrid nature since I don't play on handhelds, I can certainly see the allure.
The questions that remain to be answered are still the same though; how big is this pool of consumers and how long can a product of this nature live in more or less the same form in today's fast paced market where revisions and updates are the primary catalyst for market movments? We won't know for some time but I scratch my head at those who by default assume that it will inherit the entire 3DS + Wii U user base in addition to appeal outside of these, the step from the 7th to the 8th gen should have taught us something about assumptions, same goes for 6th to 7th gen. Time will tell, but everyone knows the Wii U was a dud at least... 
