Anyone still seriously saying the Switch is going to fail?

[Zekkyou]

Rain2 said:

mZuzek said:

And now, the realization that the Wii U has failed to match the sales of any mainline Pokémon game. Damn.

Best realization ever. Never thought of that..

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.

As rocket raccoon already pointed out, last time I checked, Nintendo still refers to Switch as a home console. With that said, I do see your point about if it were to be marketed as a successor to both it would be more fair. The comparisons don't bother me anyway, I guess I was just wondering the reasoning of it. Thanks for giving your opinion on it

No problem :) I should note though (expanding on what i said to mZuzek at the end of my last comment) that even if i think it's an acceptably coherent argument, it is also fairly pointless no matter how it's handled (at least in a vacuum). The 8th gen has been an overall install-base decline for Sony, yet i expect we'd agree the former has been a much brighter period for PlayStation. Likewise, it seems reasonable to predict that the Switch will mark a similar rise in prosperity for Nintendo regardless to whether it sells more or less than the 3DS + WiiU.