The Road to 160m+ for Nintendo Switch

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Mar1217 said:

zorg1000 said:

Yep, it didn’t have an early peak like some thought it would and then went on to have a very steady, gradual decline. Instead of falling off a cliff, it’s more like gently rolling down a hill.

The most important argument made by that camp was the Switch was suppose to follow the same "historic" trajectory has their other consoles which mostly had their peak during year 2/year 3. Problem is, the Switch was unlike any type of console they ever did up to that point, an untested market, because of it's hybrid nature. The unification of their software departments working on a single platform meant the software support could sustain their console regularly, thus leading to more potential sales.

Also, not to really salt the discourse but there was a few amongst the debates that were prolly afraid at the time that the Switch was gonna mark, an era where Nintendo could once again surpass Sony Playstation's egemony of top selling consoles. So they did they hardest fallacious analysis to make it "not happen".

Thus is born the "Cliff™"

Yeah there was a lot of downplaying of the Switch back in the early years, and while some of it was undoubtedly due to us coming off several years of Nintendo struggling with the Wii U, there was also definitely an element of console warz to it as well. Plus I feel like after the Wii U disaster some folks got their hopes up that Nintendo would finally go third party, and the Switch's success threatened that dream.