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Cobretti2 on 21 September 2020
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Dulfite said:
Cobretti2 said:

I did exaggerate a bit but I took a simplistic view.

Gamecube sold 23 million units

WiiU sold 14 million units

I would argue the Nintendo core audience is somewhere between these two numbers as Gamecube actually had pretty decent game support from 3rd parties even compared to Wii.

So lets use 20 million to split the two as the core Nintendo base.

Wii sold 102 million units.

Minus the 20 million core base

That is 82 million Wii's sold to non core Nintendo fans. So what the hell did these people buy one for when the PS360 were so much more powerful and had much better 3rd party support?

There are tens of millions that only bought handhelds, and the Switch I think proves that. I think Nintendo's real total base is more like 40-50 million.

We are talking about dedicated home consoles and I don't think the user base is 40-50 million for that, otherwise WiiU would have sold say 30 million (even with the disappointment it was) as it still had the main Nintendo game support. If you look at Japan the 3DS outsold the Wii 2 to 1. 

I also know many Sony, Microsoft and PC friends of mine who always buy a Nintendo handheld, because well it is portable and mainly for Pokemon.

The Switch benefit is even more intensified, as it is more powerful hardware hence why it will outsell the 3DS, meaning even barebone third party support has proven to help sell console. For example a few of my PC mates who don't console game at all, bought the Switch so they can play the Witcher, Doom etc at work in their lunch break lol.