Why are Nintendo Switch sales peaking much later than other Nintendo consoles?

[Pyro as Bill]

Soundwave said:

.."gradual decline not huge mistakes after massive successes like Pyro said"..

Losing 50% of your customer base is never really going to be considered a "win", if the PS5 loses half the PS4 market base, people will call it a disappointment, some will call it a failure.

- Is it still a failure if it takes MS out of the game?

Smartphones do dominate the casual market by a monstrous amount at that, Switch is successful precisely because it offers experiences deeper/bigger/more console like than the smartphone and got away from the sinking DS/3DS format of being too small scale of an experience. If Nintendo tried to release a Switch with more casual type experiences as the main killer apps and lower specs they would be in a lot of trouble right now.

 - Fortnite and PUBG are available alongside Mario and Pokemon but no-one ever claims it'll result in Sony/MS/PC casuals moving to smartphones.

The top 10 selling Switch games are very different from the Wii or DS, the Wii's top 10 was dominated by stuff like Wii Sports, Wii Play, Wii Fit, that is not the case for the Switch. Ring Fit is a nice hit buoyed by the fact that gyms are closed or a no-go for hundreds of millions of people right now, but it's not going to be one of the 5 best selling Switch games like Wii Fit was for Wii, not even close. 1,2 Switch is not going to be anywhere close to the top 15 Switch sellers the way a Wii Play was, or Nintendogs for DS. All the IP that are selling are long established Nintendo IP like Mario, Mario Kart, Zelda, Animal Crossing, Pokemon, the difference is those are "big brother console" versions of those IP and not the tiny weeny portable versions but because of advances can be played portably too. That puts the experience on a different level from other systems including Nintendo's own past handhelds.

- Who cares about 'top selling'? It just shows how gullible the hardcore are to marketing. Ring Fit and Switch Sports will sell 20M+ like their unbundled predecessors did. Mario Party on Switch has outsold Mario Party and Wii Party on Wii and DS. Since when were Pokemon, Animal Crossing, SMB and Mario Kart not czualz games?

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