| Chrkeller said: I eat some crow. The idea of the switch passing the ps2 was laughable for me..... after seeing sales doing quite well still.... yeah I was wrong. |
To be fair it was like that for most people before launch. Most people (including me) predicted the Switch would sell between 30-50M before launch with a good amount of people expecting GC or even horrific Wii U numbers again with the Switch.
There were a decent amount of more optimistic predictions though expecting 3DS numbers around 70 Million. But even the most optimistic predictions had the Switch barely reaching/surpassing Wii's 100M as virtually no one, even Nintendo, expected the Switch to reach PS2 numbers. Even Nintendo only forecasted the Switch to sell around 100M lifetime, and many people thought that 100M forecast was WAY TO optimistic.
I'll admit if someone told me before launch that the Switch would go on to outsell the PS2 I would've disregarded them as a troll or completely delusional, but here we are.
It's still impressive to me that the Switch not only outsold the Wii, but completely easily blew past it with so much momentum left. The Wii in its prime felt so huge like everyone had one and the hype surrounding it even to this day felt huge, it almost feels like the Wii as successful as it was sold more than it actually did.
