RolStoppable said:
They are clueless. If you told those folks that third party games don't sell on Nintendo consoles, they'd immediately sign it because they live in a bubble. EDIT: Neither of the two sources in the OP contains such a statement, so who knows if it's true. But I do remember from last year's report that it was deemed an optimistic expectation for Switch to sell more than Wii U, so the respondents of GDC surveys aren't particularly smart. |
actually, if you download the full report of the GDC, there's this statement :
Devs are overwhelmingly confident Nintendo’s Switch will outsell the Wii U
Last year, when polled about whether or not they thought the Switch would outsell Nintendo’s Wii U (which at that point had an install base of roughly 13 million, worldwide) in its lifetime, 50 percent of our survey respondents said yes, the Switch will outperform the Wii U. 14 percent predicted it wouldn’t, and 37 percent admitted they had no idea. This year we asked the same question again, and as you might expect, dev confidence in the Switch (which has now sold over 10 million units) is riding high. 73 percent of respondents said yes, Switch will definitely outsell the Wii U in its lifetime, 5 percent said no way, and 22 percent said they still weren’t sure.
