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Really dumb article. 100 million for Switch is almost guaranteed at this point, and would take something going drastically bad to stop switch before that mark. In all likelihood Switch will end up between 110 and 120 million.

Major sales catalysts of the future:
1) Sure most mega system sellers are out, but as others have said, evergreen titles like Zelda, Mario, MK, Smash, likely AC, maybe Pokemon will continue to act as systems sellers for the Switch.

2) Sequels to evergreen titles which are guaranteed at least 10 million sellers will continue pushing Switch sales the next few years, including sequels to Zelda, Mario 3D, and Pokemon. Also I assume a proper new 2D Mario will come out at some point that can also be added to this list.

3) Switch is continuing to get its library fleshed out by its third party library. Sure it will mostly be ports from the past few years, it isn't and won't be getting much in the way of brand new same day releases. But games that have come out in previous years are coming to Switch more and more, fleshing out its library, and could attract people waiting on the sidelines when they realize tons of third party content on the Switch can allow them to play games they may or may not have played on other systems or PC anywhere and anytime they want.

4) There has STILL BEEN NO PRICE CUT or even serious bundles. Sure there is the $200 Lite but lots of people don't want a portable only system and when the hybrid Switch hits low $200s that will probably open up a lot more interested people.

5) There also has not been an upgraded version of the Switch which Nintendo is almost guaranteed to release at some point, which should bring in some extra people who were either waiting for a price cut or a better version of the Switch. And it will no doubt cause some original Switch owners to re-up and get a brand new premium version of the system. Hell even I, someone who would never think of owning the same system twice or like one of these people that get the same game twice for a different system, would even consider getting a brand new premium Switch with much bigger disk space, bigger screen, better battery life, hopefully bluetooth support, and no joy con drift (tho I think this has only ever happened to me in Overcooked) - though if Switch 2 is fully backwards compatible and I can just transfer all my digital games over I'd just wait for Switch 2 to come out rather than re-up with a premium version of the Switch.

6) Finally, the new Sony and Microsoft systems coming out have no portable aspect, therefore they won't really do anything to directly compete with the Switch's reason for success. Granted they will compete for gamers dollars to a degree, but in the end if you want to play top of the line games anywhere you will buy a Switch as that is your only choice.