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ninson95 on 25 May 2018
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RolStoppable said:
LethalP said:

There's no guarantee the Switch will sell more software than the Xbox One. The Switch won't have anywhere close the same attach rates as the Xbox, which has the best attach rates of any consoles other than PlayStation. Handhelds don't in general. Look at the Gameboy at 118 million hardware units, it sold 501 million software. The NES also sold 501 million software, but inside 61 million hardware units. It had nearly double the attach rate.

The Xbox will sell 500 million physical units in the end probably. The ps4 will do about 1.2-1.4 billion. Switch about 450 million. (if it sells above 90 million which is likely). 

Switch isn't a handheld and its tie ratio isn't developing like a handheld console either.

Switch hardware and software shipments by March 2018: 17.79m and 68.97m for a tie ratio of 3.88.
3DS hardware and software shipments by March 2012: 17.13m and 45.42m for a tie ratio of 2.65.

The above timeframe gives both systems roughly 13 months of availability. Tie ratios of all consoles start out low and grow over time. The 3DS will finish with a tie ratio of ~5.0, but Switch is already considerably pacing ahead of the 3DS because its hybrid nature means that it will be used like a home console by plenty of its owners, especially in America and Europe. As such, it's only logical that its software purchase patterns will closely align with the pace of a home console, so an estimated final hardware total of 90m (your example) results more realistically in a software total of 750m+, because you should expect a tie ratio of 8.0 or higher.

exactly this.