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curl-6 said:

Let's take the Wii, since people like to still insist the Switch will follow a similar path despite being totally different and trending nothing like it.

By this point in Wii's lifespan it had already had its price cut to $200 and pretty much all its big games were behind it. Switch by contrast still costs $300 for the base model, having yet to see a price cut, and still has megatons like BOTW2, Splatoon 3, Monster Hunter Rise, and likely many other big games we don't even know about yet still to come.

To add to your point, Wii in Year 5 (December 2010-November 2011) received another $50 dollar price cut that reduced the price down to $150, and changed the bundled game to Mario Kart Wii. This year was also had a very dry lineup of games. Additionally, Nintendo was announcing their next gen console at E3 this year.

Juxtapose this with the upcoming 5th year of the Switch having a decent FP lineup for Q1, and a steller TP lineup for Q1, and the Wii and the Switch couldn't be more different.