Will the Switch outsell the Wii?

[Barkley]

Wyrdness said:

quickrick said:

this doesn't make sense to me, we have names like xbox one, and iphone x, and nobody gets confused, problem with wii u is nobody cared about the wii anymore, it was a dead brand.

LOL you think if  wiiu sold 50-100 million nintendo would unify there platforms? the only reason they did was because they had no choice. 

super nes 49 million

n64 33 million

GC 22 million

wiiu 14 million

the downtrend is clearly visible. with out the motion control era lighting in a bottle.

When you add Wii and Switch it shows a different story as then it shows up trends happening as Switch is going to outsell GC and N64 by the end of its second year and will go on to outsell SNES as well. This goes against your lightning in a bottle argument as Switch already has an upward trend that will be closer to Wii than any of the other home consoles.

His point is that the Switch unified their Handheld and Home Console business because they couldn't compete in the home market, so the Switch beating this trend is the point of his post, not something that goes against what he said. Whether this was Nintendo's reason or not I don't know, but that their home consoles were in continuous decline, bar one, is true.

That Nintendo wouldn't dream of creating a unified platform if both Home and Handheld were seeing great success makes sense though, would they have ever dreamt of following up the Wii and DS with a system that combines both? No because that limits the sales potential, if everyone is willing to buy two systems there's no point in combining them so they only have to buy one.