Louie said:
Yes, but Nintendo could still deliver the wrong software like they did with the Wii U. Don't get me wrong, I'm very optimistic. I think the Switch has the potential to sell more than 100 million units worldwide and definitely 20+ million in Japan. But the Wii started off great, too and then Nintendo decided to focus on games that weren't mass market friendly. Nintendo has this bad habit of pushing stuff people don't want once they are successful, like 3D Mario over 2D Mario, despite the former selling less. Or abandoning Wii Sports despite the game being huge. Or not putting effort into Wii U versions of games that sold well on the Wii. I just hope they learned from their mistakes this time. If they did, the Switch is going to clear those 100 million units worldwide and even has a chance to match the sales of the original DS. |
Switch is not a fad-driven system as the Wii was. It doesn't need the market Wii Sports appealled to and that market is gone anyway.
Case in point: the system is selling great even with 1,2 Switch (a game obviously aimed at that same demographic) not selling all that great despite have little/no competetion for a good window of time. Just Dance is also performing poorly on the system.
Wii was driven by fads like Wii Sports and Wii Fit and when people got tired of those the concept collapsed and left nothing for the Wii U to work with.
Switch is driven much moreso by standard gamers, the appeal lying in allowing people to play high end/console type games anywhere they go.
Switch will get all the Nintendo IP, there's no "mystery" here about that either, we already know more or less what the library will eventually look like aside from any new IP they want to introduce. It will have all the Nintendo IP staples.
