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Farsala on 08 June 2020
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Wyrdness said:
Farsala said:

Yeah but there can be an equal amount of people that bought 1 3DS for a whole family or 1 Wii U to succeed their Wii and instead got 2 switches for whatever reason. Personal anecdotes don't really mean much to me. All consoles have multiple ownership.

The 3DS+ Wii U comparison is simply because Nintendo decided the Switch was a hybrid.

You missed his point he has a 3DS and a WiiU which a significant number of people would also do, that's 2 units while that same consumer this time round would only get 1 Switch so if even half the WiiU owners had a 3DS that would mean 7m consumers who would only buy one unit of hardware this time round instead of the same group of consumers generating 14m last time.

Again I don't really care about the personal anecdotes. Sure there are people out there with 2 3DS and a Wii U and only 1 Switch. There are also people out there with 5 3DS, 2 Wii Us and 1 Switch. But the reverse is true too. My friend has 2 Switch 0 3DS and a Wii U.

It doesn't really matter to me, because it could never be measured.

The 3DS+ Wii U= Switch comparison, does not literally mean that I expect each consumer of 3DS and Wii U to buy a Switch. A Switch owner is a Switch owner, and that is that.

It is just an arbitrary number that I expected the Switch to beat, and that is all.