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curl-6 on 09 September 2022
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Mar1217 said:
curl-6 said:

I hope by then we've moved on, but I can just see the "cliff" proponents trying to claim they were right all along when Switch is eventually replaced and its sales naturally drop off, when what they were actually saying all along was that it was going to implode in the middle of its life as a Nintendo's flagship system.

Yeah, I think the debate has been moved from a long time ago really.

What I'm looking forward is the debate that will surround Nintendo next system performance cuz I can easily see the doom n' gloom goers coming if the Switch 2 or whatever were to not sell as high as the Switch currently does.

Yeah while it does crop up from time to time, its thankfully died down a LOT from the 2017-2019 days.

I don't think it's necessarily doom and gloom to think the Switch's successor won't sell quite as much as the Switch 1; it's possible it will, but even some really successful consoles don't sell quite as much as their predecessor, like SNES and GBA.

Doesn't mean they're a failure, but the Switch has set an extremely high bar. There'd be no shame in a Switch 2 selling, say, Wii to Gameboy numbers IMHO.

On the other hand, who knows, it might sell even better. If there's one thing I've learned from over a decade following console sales its that the future is unpredictable.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 09 September 2022