Nintendo quarterly sales update (To September 30th 2022) Switch 114.33 million

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SKMBlake said:

Kyuu said:

People often argued that there was a huge overlap between DS and Wii playerbases and therefore comparing them (hardware) combined to the Switch was unfair. 

Never understood this.

If I was a customer who wanted to play Wii games and DS games, I would've bought both. But I only have to buy 1 Switch to do the same.

Thus the real comparison would be the DS numbers, while the Wii's numbers are "absorbed" in the DS.

Not really because when Nintendo had two platforms you could very well be into one platform and not the other as home gaming and portable gaming are parallel markets with different experiences, while the would be some overlap it wouldn't be 100% or as large as people think because a large amount of portable players would be non Nintendo home platform owners and have a PC, PS or Xbox instead.

Essentially Nintendo's two platforms weren't one userbase across two platforms they were two userbases with some overlap.