mZuzek said:
Zekkyou said:
I don't really see a problem with that argument as long as the conclusions people take from it are consistent with the argument at larger. The Vita was marketed as a successor to the PSP, and is considered a failure. The PS4 was marketed as the successor to the PS3, and is considered a success. The Switch is currently marketed as the merging of Nintendo's markets, so people comparing it to a comparable 8th gen merging makes sense. It's ultimately fairly pointless (as with the majority of such comparisons), but the argument has no inherent logic breaks as long as it's presented wholly. At its core it's not much different than when people compare the overall sales of a brand in any given time period.
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Well really Nintendo is marketing it as the successor to the Wii U, so by that logic it is already a success.
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I can't say i agree with that, but it's ultimately not really relevant. As i said, the core of the argument is the same as when people compare total brand sales from any given period. In the absence of another system, Nintendo-specific versions of that argument will by default became Switch vs 3DS + WiiU (in the absence of Nintendo soon releasing another console). We can debate the usefulness of that comparison (i personally think it's fairly pointless no matter how you do it), but there's no inherent logic break.
