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RolStoppable said:
thismeintiel said:

Lol, you hurting from all that reaching? The man proved you wrong, just admit it. Japan is handheld country. Has been for a few generations, now. No home console has perfomed exceptionally well there since the PS2. And Nintendo happen to be the king of handheld gaming.

Also, the biggest part of why the Wii died is because people were over motion controls 2/3 of the way into the gen and all that was left was a very underpowered machine. The fad got a boost when it came to PS3 and 360, but quickly died after that. It's why Kinect 2.0 failed. Why Labo failed. And as people left the Wii, they either moved to console gaming or moved to PS3/360. 

The hybrid Switch is comfortably outselling the Lite in Japan.

Your Wii theory is equally sound, which means it isn't. You can't explain Ring Fit Adventure that way.

Oh boy.

Key word is hybrid. It's a handheld that sits in a dock to connect to the TV. Doesn't change the fact that it is still mostly a handheld. Which Japan loves. And without the hybrid nature and detachable joycons for multiplayer, the Switch isn't really a Switch, so I can see why more are getting the OG.

Really Ring Fit? Sure, it's selling fine (especially in Japan, which makes up nearly 40% of it's WW sales), but it's not doing Wii Sports Resort or Balance Board numbers. Doesn't change the fact that their big motion control initiative, Labo, failed. Or that they aren't pushing motion control games out left and right.  Ring Fit also had to use fitness appeal to sell.