Nintendo Switch exceeds 2.6m sales in the US; Mario Odyssey exceeds 1.1m in the US

[StarDoor]

DonFerrari said:

StarDoor said:

Colin Moriarty was brought up to be mocked because his statment is illogical given that, in the United States, Switch in 2017 has been selling at the same pace as PS4 in 2014. Also, Colin is notorious for being blinded by his own bias toward Sony, since he famously wrote a sizeable IGN article about how Vita would be massively more successful than 3DS.

Everything seems obvious on a hindsight. There were a lot of people here that thought WiiU would be the best selling console of the generation or that PS4 would fail to pass PSVita and Sony would close the door. Are all of the them fanboys?

Even people here who dislike Nintendo predicted massive success for Wii U, despite the obvious signs. That's because Wii won last generation. People tend to just assume that current trends will continue indefinitely.

Colin, though, had no reason for predicting Vita would outsell 3DS other than being a Sony fanboy. Not only did the market signs point in the opposite direction, but PSP had sold 70M less than DS in the preceding generation. Niether the short-term nor long-term trends favored Vita.