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curl-6 on 11 July 2021
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yo33331 said:
curl-6 said:

Switch is not bound by the patterns of the PS4, it's a totally different system with wider appeal due to its ability to sell to both the mobile and console markets. Switch has already had a year far bigger than any PS4 ever had.

Besides, 2020 was year 7 for the PS4, 2022 will only be Year 5/6 for the Switch.

I am giving PS4 as more recent example. It is valid for every console. After the console reach around 100M or more, games don't help to sell more units.

This is the way it is and the switch is not something special one of a kind. It is just like any other console. It is good selling okay, but it will stop selling at some point. And games won't help forever. It's ability to sell on both markets .. switch is selling the way it is because of the handheld. No one would buy switch hardware for home. Or just very hardcore fans. The buyers of nintendo are 80-90% handheld users. Even Nintendo officially told it 1 year ago.

And with the example of PS4 I am not comparing particular years. I am just saying that just like PS4 didn't boost it's sales from games, when it reached close to 100M so will the Switch and any other system.

Switch is actually not like other consoles, it's ability to sell to both the console and mobile markets gives it a wider reach and therefore higher saturation point than the PS4 which can only sell to the home console audience.

Every year of the Switch's life it has been predicted it will "fall off a cliff" the following year. It won't be true in 2022 just like it wasn't true for 2018, 2019, 2020, or 2021.

Will it decline? Naturally, yes, all systems do eventually. But 15 million next year? It is quite unlikely it will fall that fast.