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

[The_Liquid_Laser]

RolStoppable said:

Dulfite said:

I've had this discussion before with others. The DSI exclusives we're almost entirely shovelware, extremely low budget applications and games. There is no comparison between the quality and budget of those games to the GBC games. DSI was a revision, GBC was not.

Also, you should see how much money I spend on Nintendo first party a year, how many hours I play of their games a year, and my overall rankings of their games over the span of my gaming days. I absolutely adore the company and their games. I was even a shareholder until very recently.

If your on top, there is motivation to keep climbing to set a record. 

And just because you disagree with my prediction about Wii/Wii U doesn't mean you have to stoop to the level of insulting my ability to comprehend "how this all works." Why do so many conversations on this website turn into someone insulting the intelligence of another person? Why can't you simply disagree with me and leave it at that?

If you don't want people to challenge your intelligence, then you should stop making things up as you go.

Firstly, you came up with the standard of exclusive games define what is a revision and what is a new generation. When it's then pointed out that the DSi is in the same boat as the GBC, you change your standard to the quality and budget of the games matters. But if budget suddenly matters, then it can't be overlooked that Nintendo launched the GBC with Link's Awakening DX and Tetris DX as their first party lineup which are color versions of GB games. That should give you a big hint that the GBC was not a new generation, because Nintendo made no software investment like they do for a new generation.

Secondly, spending a lot of time and money on Nintendo games still doesn't excuse defending cherry-picked datasets by Nintendo haters.

Thirdly, you keep sticking to the argument that Nintendo combined GB and GBC sales to inflate the numbers when they have done no such thing for any other console of theirs, including those that have sold much worse than the GB/GBC. Respecting your prediction that Nintendo will eventually combine Wii and Wii U sales numbers would make as much sense as respecting The_Liquid_Laser's prediction for PS5 lifetime sales, who got mocked immediately to nobody's surprise.

We cannot have the expectation that all predictions will be treated the same way. There are predictions that are based on reasonable datasets and expectations, but there are also predictions that are not like that at all. Putting all predictions on equal footing would be disrespectful to those people who put in an effort to make an actual analysis. So when your question is why I don't respect your prediction, it's because it isn't deserving of respect and I don't want to be disrespectful to people who clearly do better than you.

I don't mind being mocked for my predictions.  In a few years, the threads will bumped up and I can mock those same people back.