Dulfite on 15 October 2020
| javi741 said: I find it amazing how people quickly forget how bad of a state Nintendo looked like in 2016 with the Wii U, many people today think the Switch was expected to succeed before launch. However, at the time that was clearly not the case, most people had the Switch only selling 20-40M in it's lifetime with some thinking it'll fail again like the Wii U. Whoever thought this system would sell 100M or even 70M were thought to be crazy or Nintendo fanboys at the time. This poll shows you how little faith there was at Nintendo at the time after the disaster of the Wii U. |
Then those people were basically ignoring the install base of the handhelds. There are more just handheld gamers alone on Nintendo devices, each generation, than that 20-40 million you mentioned. Anyone who thought the Switch would sell less than 60 million lifetime was silly lol. The device is a continuation of both their handheld and home console market and clearly appeals to both markets based on its sales.
