RolStoppable said:
According to what's listed on VGC: PS1 - 36.91m GB+GBC - 40.05m Important points: 1. Breadth of game library and amount of quality titles has always heavily favored PS home consoles in this comparison, because American and European publishers tend to treat handhelds as an afterthought. 2. Nintendo doesn't officially distribute their consoles themselves in many European countries, so Sony has held a clear advantage in distribution of products outside of the five major European countries. Such expansion is something that Nintendo can work on. 3. The DS demonstrates that Nintendo is capable of competing with the heights of PS consoles. So if a console's lifecycle isn't cut short (happened to the GBA because Nintendo reacted to Sony's entry in the handheld market) and the console is properly executed (doesn't hold true for the 3DS which carried the burden of the rejected 3D), then it is anybody's game. 4. The 3DS wasn't the only console with problems. The PS3 had its own struggles. 5. Switch is properly executed and can pick up third party support that goes beyond the norm for handhelds, so its sales potential is right up there with the DS despite the absence of a selling point that can match the Touch Generations games of the DS (Nintendogs, Brain Training etc.). EDIT: VGC has the DS at ~3.5m for 2005; the handheld launched in March of that year, so that lines up well with Switch for 2017. After the first week of October Switch is at 1.8m for 2017. I still wonder why Switch's Other sales are so high on VGC, but maybe VGC doesn't only count Australia, but also the whole of South America. |
we are in a different market now, then when DS was in its prime ,lets just ignore the mobile market which knocked sony out of the handheld market, and cut the ds successor sales in half, switch will be way more front loaded then 3ds, because the small boost it will get from nintendo home console gamers which is around 10-15 million. and the huge releases this year, is that is very uncommon for nintendo to release to many huge franchises in one year.
