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xPhenom08x on 01 November 2021
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IcaroRibeiro said:
xPhenom08x said:

The funny part about this market confusion and late peak nonsense is the Switch sold more in its first year than WiiU did lifetime. The Switch also sold like 3 million its first year in Japan, ask Playstation how hard that is for home consoles. The market was never confused, that is just you. 3ds userbase was clearly already supporting Switch, it doesn't sell like it does in its first year with just Nintendo home console purchasers. It's first year is better than the PS4s first year. Will probably be too high for PS5s as well. This is the type of conclusion you come to when you are only interested in an agenda. Real market analysis would look at its performance and never entertain the idea of 3ds owners not buying a clearly portable platform from Nintendo(Switch) from the very beginning. 

What is the correlation between Switch outselling Wii U with anything I've said in my post? What's the correlation with Sony, PS4 sales or PS5 sales in Japan whatsoever? I'm curious, what "agenda" do I have exactly? You seem more aware of it that I do

Of course 3DS userbase was supporting Switch, but it wasn't a quick replacement. Switch is not BC to 3DS, unlike 3DS from DS or DS from GBA. It was not a hardware that made the hardware that came before irrelevant, that was still reasons to get a 3DS in early Switch life and late adopters of 3DS of course had many reasons to wait until the truth about what IPs were coming to Switch or not. 

Heck, I didn't even said that I don't think Switch is the replacement from 3DS, merely stated we should not expect the drops from Switch after Switch 2 launch being the same of 3DS, rather to expect DS-level YoY drops. 

In your post I quoted you said the market was confused about whether the Switch was a direct successor. You also said the 3ds userbase didn't jump behind Switch massively until later which helped cause the late peak. So my question is who was buying Switch in 2017 if 3ds users were not? Switch had one of the best first years in history yet 3ds users were confused according to you? It must have been those 13 million WiiU owners even though Switch first year was 15 million? Something isn't adding up! Maybe the market wasn't confused and it was all you being confused. Japan was brought up to help further prove it wasn't WiiU owners pushing Switch because home consoles no longer sell well in Japan according to many here. So that 3.3 million first year for Switch was obviously 3ds owners. My point is, it is clearly 3ds owners that are buying Switch from the beginning because it is its direct successor lol. It was a traditional transition from 3ds to Switch just like DS to 3DS as proved by your failure at saying Ds died quicker.