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Cobretti2 on 21 September 2020
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Dulfite said:
Cobretti2 said:

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.

If there are 20-30 million handheld only fans, and 20-30 million console only fans, that is my point. There are tons of people that never bought Nintendo consoles and only got handhelds, and now they are buying Switches to satisfy them at the same time as home console fans (only) are also buying Switches. That's why I think their actual base is around 50 million.

I'm sure there is now, with a hybrid strategy, and that is great with a unified strategy by Nintendo. But at that point in time I was looking at Wii as a home console like the GCN and the WiiU. The story is kind of telling when you look at the core Nintendo games (like Zelda, Mario Galaxy, Smash) vs Wii Sports and more casual games.

Hence why i picked between the two. Irrespective of what we all thing the core is now or what it was back then, the issue here is people downplaying Wii Sports as not a system seller because it was bundled. Wii Sports is probably one of the only bundled games what made lots of people who are not core Nintendo fans buy the system.