Opinion: Nintendo Switch will still FAIL

[VGPolyglot]

Green098 said:

ArnoldRimmer said:
As usual, it's pointless to argue if Switch will be a success or failure without talking actual numbers.

Because otherwise, anyone will ultimately claim that his prediction came true:
"It sold more units than the WiiU, so I was right claiming it was a success!"
"It sold less units than , so I was right claiming it was a failure!"

So here we go, let's talk some meaningless bullshit:
As a home console, it will be a failure - but as a portable console/NDS successor, it will be a success.

Although, don't home consoles have a lower bar than handhelds in terms of successfulness? The worst selling Nintendo handheld is at around 70 million and still counting, while on terms of home consoles you've got the Wii U at around 13 million, Gamecube around 20 million and N64 around 30 million. Xbox also did around 30 million and Dreamcast did 8 million. The only major handhelds to do poor numbers were the GameGear and PSVita at around 10 million and 15 million.

I'd say a home console for Nintendo it only needs to sell around 50 million to be a success, but as a portable console and especially if calling it an NDS successor it should really be aiming for at least 60-70 million.

What do we mean by major handhelds? There is also the Atari Lynx, the N-Gage, the WonderSwan, the Neo Geo Pocket and the Microvision.

Last edited by VGPolyglot - on 10 December 2017