Remember when the Wii U was aiming for the "core gamer"?

[Soundwave]

TheMisterManGuy said:

Soundwave said:

Nintendo will always have to appeal to a family segment to some degree, they don't have an Uncharted or Gran Turismo or Halo or even a GoldenEye anymore really, so their franchises lean heavily towards that, but you could lose all of Switch Sports, Snipperclips (lol), 1,2 Switch, and even Ring Fit ... and I don't think it would make a huge difference in Switch sales at all. It's not like the system would go from 125 million sold to like only 80 million. You remove Wii Sports, Wii Fit, Just Dance, etc. from the Wii and it's not even probably selling 40 million units. 

The fact that the Switch is a platform where titles like Switch Sports, Just Dance, Super Mario Party, can be hits alongside traditional Nintendo experiences shows how much universal appeal the Switch has as a platform. Even games like Mario Kart and Animal Crossing work on multiple levels (hence, they're the two best selling games on the system) There's something for every type of gamer on it, and that's a big reason for its success. Like, you don't succeed at 132 million units with just core gamers or Nintendo diehards.

I mean the Playstation and XBox sell like 160 million units (give or take) for multiple successive generations in a row, so apparently sure there are that many core gamers (not even including those who game on PC). Lots of them own a Switch. 

Nintendo just made an attractive hardware that can play "big boy" games, if the system couldn't run high end games like BOTW, DOOM, etc. it would've sank the system because 3DS even Vita type handhelds are just not that great any more. No one wants a portable that is a bite sized gaming machine really in the age of "you can get 1000 free bite size gaming experiences on your phone for free" modern age that we live in. 

Nintendo had to go upstream and make something higher end than the Vita even. Otherwise the concept of the hybrid console doesn't have enough appeal.