Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - 11th - 17th Sept 2017

[Kerotan]

the_dengle said:

Kerotan said:

Well the sales of Switch clearly show that uniting the 2 platforms into 1 makes it appealing to new consumers who would never have bought either on their own.  

 

I've also acknowledge that this comparison is also valid as it addresses the overlapping userbase.  

 

Switch vs 3DS+WiiU/2

This isn’t how math works. Taking the average of the two numbers does not address anything. Expanding their market introduces a new variable that is unrelated to the overlap. All of this is still ignoring that hardware sales are far from the be-all, end-all. Are you truly unable to grasp the difference between selling 80 million total hardware across two platforms and selling 80 million hardware for a single platform?

I never said it's the best comparison but it's a valid one.  Some else suggested the one where you divided the Wii U sales by 2. But then switch has an advantage Wii U didn't where it will probably get multiple cheaper revisions and households or even individuals will purchase a second or third Switch in years to come. 

 

And I never said it's the be all and end all. Why are you making things up to try and create an argument?