RolStoppable said:
That's a strange way to look at it. By that logic, Nintendo would now be less popular in Japanese homes than they were with the Wii U. From a publisher perspective, Switch is really awesome. No more headache about the decision to make a game for a home platform or a portable console because both bases get covered with a single effort. |
The point is that portable gaming remains popular in Japan while the market share for non-portable gaming has fallen considerably. Switch figures can't be used to show that non-portable gaming is recovering because it can be used as a portable. The only way to use the numbers would be to know what the Switch would have hypothetically sold if it had no handheld/portable capabilities.
"By that logic, Nintendo would now be less popular in Japanese homes than they were with the Wii U." - I'm sure that in the alternate-reality where the Switch can only be used hooked up to a TV it would still be doing a lot better than the WiiU in Japan. But this isn't the type of comparison that I was trying to draw attention to lol.
"From a publisher perspective, Switch is really awesome. No more headache about the decision to make a game for a home platform or a portable console because both bases get covered with a single effort." - I agree.
