Will Switch outsell DS? PS2? Or neither?

[Manlytears]

curl-6 said:

Manlytears said:

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.

Partially agree with you. yes, the determining factor is extremely arbitrary, in this case Nintendo that says "this is the new generation" or "this is just an upgrade"!
Regarding Game Cube and Wii. The difference between them is clear as the day! As I said, it's not a question of hardware and "power", it is software and content that makes a new generation!
Do you have a new proposal for content between "One S" and "X1", something that is only for X1? no? same generation!
Do you have a new content proposal between "GC" and "Wii", something only "Wii" will deliver? yea? new generation!

But in any case, this is just a view that follows a logical and objective criterion ... which is absolutely useless here, given that the decision about "new generation" and "current generation" is absolutely arbitrary.