Let's settle this once for all...

[Leynos]

Mnementh said:

Amnesia said:

Strange though that people want to separate so much these two machines, they have nearly same capacities, same games, same size in hand, main concept is the same except that one is limited to 12 meters, the other one is infinite distance from dock. Games of the WiiU were all ported to Switch, Nintendo has proposed the "retro compatibility" where you pay two times full price a same game, and you all decided to deny this and call it "9th gen" instead.

As the Switch is so similar in concept and tech to the WiiU, that must be the reason it does sell so similar.

BraLoD said:

Switch is a handheld, don't worry about it.

That is why the Switch Lite sells so much more than the hybrid model that includes a costly connection to TV handheld gamers don't need.

mutantsushi said:

Nintendo itself has long been clear they are in no way actually competing against the other console twins.

And Switch actually is a rebranded NVIDIA Shield (launched same year as PS4) with low power handheld mode.
Why would Shield's hardware generation change just because it's rebranded under Nintendo?

And this must be the reason the Switch sell as well as the NVIDIA Shield did.

"But Mnementh, Switch sells because it has a Nintendo logo on the package."

As did the WiiU.

Switch is much more capable than a Wii U hardware-wise. Docked it's closer to Xbox One but still a ways away. Undocked raw power it's comparable to Wii U but still more capable. More modern chipset. Wii U used a GPU from 2008 and a  modified CPU from 2000.Switch uses hardware more modern than Xbox One or PS4.  Switch supports a lot of features Wii U could not do. Switch does not use Nintendo's craptastic API GX. It uses Nvidia NVN which supports OpenGL/Vulkan. Why else do you think modern engines like UE4/5 support it?

I'm not one to say power is the sole deciding factor on generation. Only point of this post is to point out Switch is not only a fair bit more powerful than Wii U but much more modern and offers features Wii U was incapable of power aside.