Will the Switch outsell the Wii?

[Miyamotoo]

Barkley said:

Wyrdness said:

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.

Just fact is that that isn't true, Wii was not decline, so it accurate to say but that their home consoles were in continuous decline.

Nintendo was struggling with supporting two totally different platforms in same time in modern age, Nintendo start talking about unified platform only 2 months after Wii U launch (at that time Wii U had good launch).