Wyrdness said:
Japan is one of the core pillars of portables as the bulk of support comes from Japan, Vita not only took a chunk of that support but the Vita's sales are units taken away from 3DS and in total these units sold are higher than the GBA in the era of mobile something GBA never had to deal with, had Vita's sales been 3DS sales you wouldn't even be arguing about GBA as 3DS would have higher sale than it. GBA would also never have done much more numbers because the PSP was on the way, DS had to come out because GBA would not have held the PSP at bay and risk losing the portable market to Sony. Tomodachi sold 5.5m and caused massive sales in Japan, Fire Emblem caused sales spikes especially in Japan Nintendo have classed FE as a Tier 1 franchise now because of the effect it had. Titles like NMH3, Fear Effect Remake, DQXI, Shin Megami V, RE:Revelations double pack, DQ Builders 2, Tales of, Ateliar and so on have been confirmed, support in Japan is far stronger than before. It doesn't matter what it is to you because objectively it's a hybrid and successor to both, yes it being portable makes it a successor because it's the next portable line, like I said before you can keep telling yourself otherwise but it won't change the truth. |
Even if 3DS+Vita > GBA, you can't deny how long it took to reach those numbers.
Also having 2 products on the market also means that you'll attract more people, specially in this case where the libraries are significantly different.
Well, if GBA sold 15M more despite having PSP and DS as competition, it seems plausible to think it would have sold much more if the competition wasn't there - or part of it.
The question isn't just how many games are coming.
What drives HW are the big titles. And so far, Switch hasn't a whole lot. DQ11 and Tales of, to be more precise.
Not even the new MH is a main title.
It's almost like what happened with GC, where it had a good amount of titles but it failed at getting the important ones.
It's not me who doesn't see it as a 3DS successor, it's also Nintendo who doesn't even see it as such, despite having 3DS on it's last legs.
Actually, to them it's more of a 3rd pillar, to be honest.
