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quickrick on 08 January 2018
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RolStoppable said:
quickrick said:

lol Talking about twisting logic to fit your perspective. just because  you have a couple of cases of consoles starting great doesn't mean it will always be like that. wii could have died much earlier, just look at japan is started out like a monster, only sold 12 million ltd. same for N64 in America.

A year ago I wrote a thread about Switch lifetime sales because the vast majority of the VGC community had laughably low predictions.
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=224719

I am sure that the likes of you did perceive my thread as twisting logic to fit my perspective, but when the thread is read one year after its creation, most people will nod with their head because all of the points I brought up are so plain obvious in hindsight.

The thread I linked to will remain active throughout the Switch's lifetime, so if you are convinced that Switch will falter, my thread is a golden opportunity for you to become a vGC hero if you turn out to be right. Of course, if you are wrong, it won't be pretty for you.

Pillertriller said:

You Nintendo guys overstimate the switch first year, it had three of nintendos biggest franchises and a new  franchise, and a mk rehash, and the system wasnt be able to reach ps4 numbers, and dont come with stock issues excuse lol. The PS4 had nothing special in its first year and still sold 10 million units faster than the switch. Sorry to say that but switch probably wont have another year with such big and succesessful titles like in its first year. So its pretty realistic that the switch maybe already had one of its biggest / best years. 

Switch beats the PS4 in a launch-aligned comparison through year 1. The PS4 reached 10m faster than Switch by about one week, but Switch will easily beat the PS4 to 12m.

In the thread I linked to above, I mention that even on the Wii U and 3DS Nintendo managed to have ten unique IPs sell 4m+ copies with individual installments despite the Wii U's low installed base. Only four of those ten IPs have released on Switch so far and of course nothing rules out second or even third appearances for those IPs, considering how many Pokémon games were released on the 3DS. Nintendo isn't running out of system sellers anytime soon.

What some people still don't quite understand is that Switch will be Nintendo's only console going forward, so Nintendo's first party support won't go back and forth between two consoles. This will have a notably positive effect on hardware sales momentum because software droughts are unlikely to occur under such circumstances. It also means that a possible absence of third party support wouldn't and couldn't have much of a negative impact because Nintendo turned themselves into a self-sustaining juggernaut.

i already said what needs to be said. time will tell who's right. i'm just confused if nintendo is such a juggernaut with there system sellers why do most of there home consoles only fail N64,GC, and wiiu. i mean sure they made games for there handheld's as well but the experience was vastly superior on there home consoles, and i'm not talking bout 100 million, but at least 50 million each.