Will the Switch outsell the Wii?

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quickrick said:

Wyrdness said:

No Sony gave up because they got destroyed and couldn't support 2 platforms this was shown in both PSP and Vita, 3DS is going to finish it's LT with 80m or so sales when combined with the 14m Vita sold that's 94m units which shows that your talk of their being no market is untrue in every aspect. Nintendo saw a 50% decline following the DS which is the highest selling platform of all time under your logic the console market in the PS3 era didn't have a market anymore because the PS3 had the same decline from the PS2.

Having two platforms that drain resources doesn't lead to profits as the development of games, marketing and R&D of both negates any money made having one platform that hits multiple markets is far more viable and healthy for a business than two, it only worked before because developing on portables used to be dead cheap and require only a few people now it takes console level teams. You must be new to gaming because anyone who has been around for a while can tell you its not a platform like the PS4 that brings third party support its market approach and licensing type.

man almost everything you said its wrong. psp/ds combined for 230 million, the market shrunk to around 90, comparing it to ps3 makes no sense because ps3 sales just didn't just disappear, 360 took them, unlike psp/ds, where the market such obviously shrunk. also ps2 is the best selling platform of all time.

I disagree about having 2 platforms is draining resources, especially with how easy porting is these days, if nintendo knew they could make a powerful home console that could sell well they would have,  they obviously  decided to combine both as there market share was shrinking and they had to bring there A game to stay relevant. porting any nintedo switch game to a home console like ps4 would be a breeze, and require very little cost and effort.

Exactly. Nintendo combined their markets because they couldn't compete with home consoles. The worst selling PS home console was less than 15M away from catching their most successful home console. And other than that blip, Nintendo home consoles have seen steady declines. And just like Sony, they saw the incredible hit the handheld market took after the introduction of smartphones. So, instead of competing head on or relying solely on a shrinking market, they chose to focus their resources on a unique hybrid system.

@ OP

I'm guessing no. I think it will end up around the 3DS, maybe a little more. So, 70M-80M.