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curl-6 on 20 March 2022
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CGI-Quality said:
curl-6 said:

Even after seeing the form factor I admit I sure as hell never thought it had a real shot at outselling PS4 back when it was first unveiled, and as I recall the vast majority of folks thought the same. The general opinion back then seemed to be that it was too expensive for a handheld, too weak for a console, and would suffer the same persistent lack of games that dogged the Wii U.

Heck, when Nintendo announced in 2017 they were aiming for 100 million plus sales, most folks scoffed and said they were crazy.

A lot of that is also down to a real underestimation of Nintendo. And it will continue, because lowballing almost seems fun for naysayers!

To me, the greatest thing to happen next to a hugely successful PS4 was a hugely successful Nintendo! Think about the Switch's successor — it should be a massive success!

True, and we were also just coming off several years of the Wii U selling extremely poorly and even 3DS underperforming, which coloured people's perceptions including mine.