Switch Sales Top 113M, PS4 Tops 117M - Worldwide Hardware Estimates for Sep 11-17

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eva01beserk said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

It's not putting it's fate in the hand of third party's.  The Switch is already wildly successful.  It doesn't need third party games to drive hardware, because hardware is already selling great.  However, now that Switch has a large install base, it's time for third party games to make them a lot of profit.  

That is actually the standard Nintendo model of one of their successful systems.  First party software drives hardware sales during the early years, but then it tapers off and third party sales generate lots of profit in the latter years.

No i dont think so. Nintendo software stars to slow down in the end because nintendo tends to do an actual generational cut of software and they just happened to just be moving some games for the new gen. we stopped seeing that with the wii u to switch. in wich they had some crossgen games specially zelda. I think this new switch will still have backwards compatibility, so we wont see a a software drought as they wont hold any for the new console.  

This post appears to be disagreeing with me at first, but at closer inspection it doesn't actually address what I was talking about.

Last edited by The_Liquid_Laser - on 28 September 2022