Will the Switch outsell the Wii?

[Miyamotoo]

thismeintiel said:

quickrick said:

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.

And why they didnt combined their markets after GC for instance? Reality is that they had some sort of plans for unified platform and combined markets around Wii U launch when nobady know that Wii U will fail and that goes espacily for Nintendo (in same time they made plan to marge their handheld and home console divisions), and main reason for that was that they had huge problems supporting two difrent platforms in same time where both platforms suffered from droughts (just look at Wii U). Thre was no steady decline when Wii was their best selling console and Wii U there worst selling console ever.

70-80m is probably minium that Switch will end up, at end of this year Switch will be at 30m+, and thats for less than 2 years on market while Nintendo said they want longer life span for Switch than usual 5-6 years.