| yo33331 said: And here the old saying goes: "this is not a sprint but a marathon" |
Is it really a marathon when you're dragging a corpse past the finish line and everyone else has left the track because the actual race ended a few hours ago and it's 2 AM? lol.
Everyone and their grandma knows Nintendo could've had that record, they simply didn't want it. Shit, really you could sell the DSi even today for $59.99 a pop especially in developing countries and it would probably move 800k-900k units a year since legitimately the DS library is not available on the Switch at all.
Nintendo simply isn't interested in milking hardware forever.
To me you shouldn't need all these stupid qualifiers to get the record like "oh no! You can't announce the successor!!!" like gimme a break. If you need a successor to not be announced by like year 7 to keep selling and then you need like 10 years on store shelves, it just sort of becomes ridiculous.
The only system that legitimately had a case for being an actual market factor after year 7/8 was the Game Boy because of the Pokemon craze which is a one off kind of event.
