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

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Shtinamin_ said:

killeryoshis said:

There are many theories on why it failed. But I can say the Switch succeeded because Nintendo made a system to appeal to all their young, old, and new fans. They also cheated by combining two systems into one.

What do you mean by cheating? How does one cheat in the systems selling ways?

I dont think that combining two systems into one is cheating. In fact, I think that this potentially cut into total sales for the 8th generation of gaming consoles for Nintendo. If Nintendo didn't make the Switch a home/handheld combo but just a home console and still appealed to young, old and new fans, the Switch would have most likely sold close to 100 million consoles, much like the Wii. Since Switch would be their home consoles, they would have sold a new handheld (Im gonna call it NH). This NH would have most likely sold a minimum of 80 million, near 3DS numbers. 
Since it's just the Switch, they might be selling maybe 150 million or 160 million (at most) consoles.

Making one console was a huge step for Nintendo, a big risk, and made game development way easier to handle. We will always be able to count on Nintendo for one thing: their ability to innovate technology, and make gaming fun and family friendly.

I have a hard time seeing a Nintendo console strictly tied to a wall outlet and television going back to Wii numbers after the Wii U. I also have a hard time seeing a Nintendo home console outselling its contemporary handheld counterpart, seeing as how that's never happened.

Maybe I misread and you meant the Switch Home would sell around 20 million while the Switch handheld would be around 80 million, but that's still dozens of millions less than what the real Switch today has sold, and that number is still growing higher by the day!

What would be the hook to sell these new separate consoles on? Many of us thought the Switch would originally be just that, but you'd be able to take the same game card/digital download and have complete crossplay between both systems, so let's go with that. That means that you'd still have a home console Switch that has to be underpowered enough to keep most games in the ballpark to allow the NH to share the games, otherwise Nintendo is betraying its selling point. That sounds like a way more enticing proposition than the Wii U, but not enough to get 100 million people to buy a vastly underpowered Switch Home. At least in my opinion.

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