Master analyst, Michael Pachter, predicts that Switch will not sell near Wii.

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Dulfite said:

Kakadu18 said:

You ignore the handhelds.

GB 1989

GBA 2001

NDS 2004

3DS 2011

With the exception of the GBA they all had a longer life than 6 years. The 3DS was actively supported until 2019 even. Their average with that is over 6 years.

Again appart from the GBA the length of their consoles often depends on it's success and the ones with a shorter than 6 years life were always low sellers.

I just find the mindset weird that some of the earlier posts in this thread shared, that all Nintendo systems have a 5 year life and therefore the Switch's life would also be 5 years.

Ignoring the GB Color is not a good thing to do. GBC could play hundreds of games the original Gameboy could not. It was its own generation based on that standard alone. It wasn't a New 3ds level upgrade with a few exclusives, literally hundreds of exclusives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_Boy_Color_games

Sort by asc/dsc and you will see how many games were not Dual Mode compatible. GBC was its own generation, regardless of how Nintendo likes to label it (they join them up to make it look like they sold more, just like they will probably do years from now with Wii/Wii U).

Also, support doesn't mean much when the games are few and far between and heavily focusing (at least first party-wise) on "remasters" like the M&L ports of the DS games.

I don't know how accurate that GBC games list is accurate, cause it features Pokémon Gold/Silver and they were both Game Boy games (with GBC enhancements).

EDIT: Nevermind, they mentioned it in the "dual mode" column