The Switch and Nintendo hardware

[Mnementh]

flashfire926 said:

Nem said:

Correct.

It would be interesting to know Nintendo's expectations, but no matter what happens they will always claim it to be a success.

But i think it makes sense thinking that if it sells very south of Wii U+3DS it would be a disappointment. I wanted to know what the perception is though. There's many factors that come into how successful a system is, wich i am not considering here, in particular software sales.

I don't think sales is the real metric of success, it's profit earned. If people remember, 3DS got a huge price cut a few months after launch of sluggish sales. At $169, did each 3DS earn the same as every switch? Probably not. Chances are, switch's profit margin is much higher, and let's say 40 million switch units earned the same as 60 million 3DS units, cause of a higher profit margin. (I'm just giving these numbers as a ballpark guess, nothing confirmed)

For profit probably game sales are more important. So lower profit on the hardware may be irrelevant if games sell fabulous.