Also, to suggest that a sale of one 3DS/2DS unit is anywhere near equal to a sale of a Switch, and express concern that Nintendo might be in decline if it somehow didn’t reach that 85M mark, is beyond concern trolling.
Look at the amount of revenue that Switch generates. Switch cost 300 USD, and 3DS cost 80 to 200 USD; while Switch games cost 60 USD, 3DS games cost only 30.
Look at the volume of software Switch sells; while the 3DS was breaking 56 million software when it reached 23M, Switch broke 111M.
The 3DS is half the price, its software is half the price, and its software sells half the volume: in other words a Switch is worth about three to four 3DSs in terms of revenue and about two 3DS in terms of the volume of games people buy for it. If we want to dig further, how much longer is the average Switch game compared to the average 3DS game?
I’m not even much of a home console gamer, more of a handheld gamer, and even I can see that a Switch is clearly significantly more weighty than a 3DS in any metric of value.
When Switch hits 30 million, it’s safely past the 85M 3DSs. It will hit that within a month.
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