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As a Nintendo fan, I don’t think it’s correct to add 3DS to Switch hardware - they’re two separate platforms: 3DS sales are NOT helping the Switch. True, they are all Nintendo hardware sales, but one 3DS is NOT worth as much as a Switch for hardware revenue, and nowhere near as much for software revenue - 3DS has a low tie-in and software is lower value. A Switch and PS4 will likely sell similar amounts of software, on the other hand - even the “casual” Wii sold similar software to PS3, and usually the value of the software was higher since A. Nintendo rarely dropped software prices and B) games generally cost more to begin with, as Wii had a lot of software that came with expensive accessories - Wii Fit for example. So Nintendo generated A LOT more revenue and profit than Sony did that generation. Handhelds have been good money for Nintendo, but Nintendo with a strong home console does better. DS, as big as it was, is not where Nintendo got its billions.

Switch, while I want it to be like the wii days, it’s just not there yet. Right now, it’s probably on its way. 69M pieces of software for year 1 is quite good. Next year could be 200M!



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