Will Switch outsell DS? PS2? Or neither?

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Manlytears said:

curl-6 said:

New 3DS and DSi got exclusive games. Their numbers are counted towards their respective families and they're not considered new generations.

Ultimately, it will depend on how Nintendo positions it, whether they treat it as a successor or a midgen refresh a la New 3DS, Xbox One X, or Gameboy Colour.

I agree with you, in the end it will be what reflects the official word of Nintendo. No objective criteria will be respected, just one thing, Nintendo's official word. If they want to treat +10 years of consoles as a "single Gen", and launch exclusives for one or more "revisions" of these consoles, so it will be, as it was with the Gameboy.

Imho, this is a big bullshit, and unfair, when it comes to comparing "number of consoles sold" and "bragging rights" between fans ... but this is how it works, nothing to do about it.

Ultimately it is pretty much arbitrary really; Wii and Gamecube are more similar in terms of internal hardware than Xbox One and Xbox One X for example, yet the former is considered a generational divide and the latter is not. The lines between what constitutes a new generation and what doesn't are already pretty blurred and inconsistent, and have been for a long time.