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I did already say hopefully no secret sauce, but I thought of a new analogy to explain it. Here is an exchange from Kung Fu Panda.
Mr. Ping: The secret ingredient is... nothing!
Po: Huh?
Mr. Ping: You heard me. Nothing! There is no secret ingredient.
Po: Wait, wait... it's just plain old noodle soup? You don't add some kind of special sauce or something?
Mr. Ping: Don't have to. To make something special you just have to believe it's special.
[Po looks at the scroll again, and sees his reflection in it]
Po: There is no secret ingredient...
Switch 2 needs no secret ingredient, at least not out of the box.
When you consider that Sega was now stiff competition, Nintendo didn't make that many screw-ups with the SNES/Super Famicom. If Genesis was niche like other Sega platforms, SNES probably would've equaled or surpassed NES/Famicom in sales. A bizarre gimmick with SNES probably wouldn't have made it sell anymore. Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance had no secret ingredient compared to Game Boy. They just had better specs and games people wanted to play.
Switch's hybrid nature is enough to make it unique in the field. Nintendo just needs better specs and games people want to play and you're looking at 100 million at least, possibly 115 million or more.



Lifetime Sales Predictions 

Switch: 161 million (was 73 million, then 96 million, then 113 million, then 125 million, then 144 million, then 151 million, then 156 million)

PS5: 115 million (was 105 million) Xbox Series S/X: 40 million (was 60 million, then 67 million, then 57 million. then 48 million)

PS4: 120 mil (was 100 then 130 million, then 122 million) Xbox One: 51 mil (was 50 then 55 mil)

3DS: 75.5 mil (was 73, then 77 million)

"Let go your earthly tether, enter the void, empty and become wind." - Guru Laghima