Console Wars are mostly dead...

[DonFerrari]

SpokenTruth said:

DonFerrari said:

So now besides being a hybrid Switch is a console when 300 and HH when 200?

Wouldn't it need to reach then 100M of Wii + 150M of DS?

No.  Because there is a huge amount of overlap from Wii and DS owners.

Sure, how much of an overlap?

Even if you claim 100% overlap, there would still be 150M customers due to DS. Even if you say that DS had more than one sale per console because it was HH then you would have at least 100M Wii.

Since neither case is true, even with as large as you want to claim overlap Switch would need to sell over 150M HW to say there was no contraction on HH while pretending it being hybrid didn't brought any sales from the console portion of the market.

Because if you want to consider it also a HH then it would also qualify for multiples purchases in a household.

Anyway you absolutely can't deny and doesn't matter how much double dips or overlap that 100M Wii + 150M DS saw a major contraction to 15M WiiU and 75M 3DS. Claim whatever anyone wants about PS3 losing 70M sales in a gen that would be less both in raw number (85M Wii to WiiU and 75M DS to 3DS) and less in relative loss so 45% (85% for Wii to WiiU and 50% DS to 3DS) with a very clear X360 picking up PS3 loss in the market (seem by PS2+Xbox, PS3+X360 and PS4+X1 being relatively close to one another).

Cerebralbore101 said:

DonFerrari said:

So now besides being a hybrid Switch is a console when 300 and HH when 200?

Wouldn't it need to reach then 100M of Wii + 150M of DS?

Switch is a hybrid at $300, and a Handheld at $200. How are you even questioning this? The Lite has no way to play on a TV. 

No, for obvious reasons that others have already pointed out. 

So lite alone would have to sell 150M to prove there was no contraction against DS or at least 75M against 3DS (that you said wasn't a contraction but just people that didn't buy because at the start it was expensive and without games, which in the case of PS3 didn't prevent they to recover momentum when cutting price and making more games).