StarDoor said:
Okay, I didn't make that post so that people could use it as a springboard for ridiculous predictions. 3DS barely has a third of its lifetime sales in Japan. Switch is doing much better than 3DS in both North America and Europe, while it is only on par with 3DS in Japan. How does that suggest lifetime sales that are more concentrated in Japan than any Nintendo console ever? |
They're crazy about handheld gaming, the demand seems huge, it'll have great Japanese support but probably not so much Western support (if FIFA tanks, goodbye EA, and Skyrim is a port of a six year old game now available on a ridiculous amount of platforms, so let's not argue this one right now), Japan is also a huge market for tablets and smartphones games and gaming. Overall, I also think the Switch will have a fairly short lifespan due to its design and nature, but will get many revisions during that time, revised consoles usually sell really well in Japan, look at how they crazy it gets every time a new 3DS model arrives (every other month or so... 
). If you look at Nintendo's handhelds, you'll note that they used to sell considerably more in EU and NA before, in percentages, Japan has been taking a bigger and bigger chunk of the global installed base. Even the DS has sold 19 million more in Europe and a whooping 24 million more in NA than in Japan, while the 3DS has sold the most in Japan and Europe has bought over 5 million less, if the trend continues and grows, my predicion is not impossible. Improbable? Yes, of course, but not impossible.
To be fair, I use words like "I think" and "might have", it's just a hunch, a possibility. I have a feeling it will sell pretty poorly in Europe and that the Americas will lose interest a whole lot quicker than Japan. Hey, I could be wrong as hell, I'm open to that.
And I know you didn't intent to create a springboard, that wasn't at all what I was doing.
