Nintendo's success with the Switch both a blessing and a curse?

[scottslater]

KLXVER said:

Wyrdness said:

They're not all over the place with portables though with 3 out of 4 selling over 80m as a Hybrid Switch inherits this market and currently has a monopoly on it and is well on its way to being another 80m plus platform to the point it's possibly going to be a 100m platform which would make it Nintendo's fourth and overtake the PS brand as they're currently tied on that front which kind of is his point when it comes to brands.

Well if you don't count the Virtual Boy AND combine the GB and GBC, then sure. 

Take two identical consoles with the exact same games on them. One says PlayStation on it and the other says Nintendo on it. I would put my money on the PlayStation one selling the best. I just think the PS brand has more mass appeal. Not shitting on Nintendo in any way here, its just what I believe.

Um... Xbox 360 versions of games outsold PS3 just last generation pretty consistently... so even just 5/6 years ago it wasn't the "best brand" for 3rd party games... PS3 was bailed out at the end of the generation because Microsoft punted and lost a lot of it's player base and that is how it was able to hit that 80+ million mark...

As for those games on Nintendo hardware, they are usually shells of the other console versions so they don't sell on Nintendo consoles very well, if they were full fledged versions of the game though I bet they would sell just as well, if not better (look at how games like Mario Kart, Mario Odyssey, and Breath of the Wild are still consistently top selling games 2 YEARS after release).

Last edited by scottslater - on 12 December 2019