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Otter on 26 January 2021
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RolStoppable said:
Otter said:

There's no doubt that Nintendo wanted a blue ocean product, but thats been the case since the DS. Whether they actually achieve it is another thing. Unless I'm mistaken Switches launch year was heavily driven by their core fanbase and it also skewed more older than traditional userbases, so the degree of outreach beyon traditional demographics wasn't clear in 2017 like the way it was in 2008.

The 3DS and Wii U weren't blue ocean products and they never could be, because Nintendo didn't care to continue their blue ocean strategy.

I am not sure what you mean with early adopters of Switch skewed older than traditional userbases. Is this some stealth-trolling along the lines of Nintendo is for kids? Or is it just the oversight that the average age of the userbase increases with each passing generation because millions stick with Nintendo? Either way, today the explanation for why Switch will sell more than 100m units is pretty much the same one as it was four years ago.

Wii Fit U
Wii Sports Online
NintendoLand
Launching with NSMBU 
Multiplayer Focused 3D Mario 

The early efforts for the Wii U seem more notable than Switch early in its lifetime

.... The latter section was just userbase data, I thought it gave the impression of Nintendo's Switch initial audience being unsually "hardcore". 


"Nearly two years from launch, the demographics of Nintendo Switch owners are beginning to fall more into line with the demographics of other Nintendo system owners, with marked differences from owners of other consoles."

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-02-11-eedar-nintendo-switch-attracting-more-women-wider-age-ranges-over-time#:~:text=Early%20adopters%20of%20the%20system,male%2C%20and%2030%25%20female.&text=The%20PS4%20and%20Xbox%20One's,and%2053%25%20female%2C%20respectively.


But the point was to question whether it was actually clear that Nintendo was succeeding with its blue ocean strategy back in 2017 because the initial audience was distinctly male and mostly yuppies