Anyone still seriously saying the Switch is going to fail?

[StarDoor]

friendlyfamine said:

StarDoor said:

There's a difference between being certain that the Switch will outsell the 3DS, and merely recognizing that the factors that influence the success of a console are stronger for the Switch than the were for the 3DS. But since you brought it up, which games were "killer apps" for the 3DS?

Read again. I said a lot of the 3DS' eventual success derived off affordability, which meant games weren't as big a factor. The Switch doesn't have that advantage. Therefore, games are more important for the Switch. But the only system seller I'm foreseeing is Pokemon. Fire Emblem, Kirby, Yoshi...they don't really sell systems. 

Okay... so you live in a world where people buy consoles because they're cheap, and not because they have games.

If anything, your logic predicts that the Switch will be massively more successful than the 3DS, because it's already selling better while being much more expensive. So once they cut the price in a few years, this "affordability" bonus will kick in and then the Switch can ride out another 70 million sales on top of whatever they sold in 2017/2018, which looks to be around 25+ million.