Japan Sales Week 35 Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - August 27- September 02, 2018

[Kerotan]

Miyamotoo said:

Kerotan said:

Well if you want games up to the current AAA standard set by xbox and ps4 especially pro and x then the switch isn't that type of home console. The fact it had to be portable severely hampered the power they could aim for. This tells me they valued the portability more. 

No shame in that because as a handheld its nice and powerful and imo that's its primary market and the market most of its Ltd sales will come from. 

Well yeah, main point about AAA multiplatform games on Switch is point they could play in handheld and tabletop mode, but also that you can switch to docked mode and change play stylus that you suit more. But that doesnt mean that people playing Switch only in handheld mode, we had survey and around 50% Switch owners playing Switch in both modes, around 30% owners play Switch primary in portable/tabletop mode and around 20% plays primarily in docked mode. And thats exactly power of Switch, Switch suits difrent play styles, but of course if we talking about Japan specific we talking about handheld/tabletop mostly.

https://nintendoeverything.com/kimishima-on-how-people-are-playing-switch-usage-by-household/

 

Kerotan said: 

I imagine it's sales will be like previous Nintendo handheld before and won't break their record. So that makes it quite easy to imagine. Between 20 and 30m imo. 

That realy depends how much revision we will have, have long life span Switch will have, also one of factors could be if Sony will maybe release new handheld in Japan...its hard to say how much will sell at end, but for now I can see passing 20m at least (at end of this year, so less than 2 years on market Switch will pass 7m sold units in Japan).

I highly doubt we see a Sony handheld unless by some voodoo magic the ps5 can have a portable sku with all games compatible. Not possible with ps4 and I doubt ps5. So Nintendo should have no competition from consoles on the portable side.