The Road to 160m+ for Nintendo Switch

[XtremeBG]

Fight-the-Streets said:

Two things are weird for me:

1. Switch 2 release in 2023 was always unrealistic (as technology became more expensive and games taking much longer to develop, a console lifecycle of just 6 years (before the release of a successor) is only possible if the console is a flop)

2. Talking about a handheld console market is a mute point. There is no handheld console market anymore when there's only one left on the market (and even this one is actually a hybrid). If there's only one, we name it (Nintendo Switch). We don't talk about a market as the market is Nintendo Switch (unless you broaden it to include the PC handhelds/hybrids). It is like if you talk about the population in an African country where hardly any non-black people live, for example. In such a country you dont' talk about "the black population" because the "the black population" IS "the population". However, should Sony, Xbox or someone else release a new handheld/hybrid console, then we can address it as "market" again.

1. As of now yes, as of 2019 for example not so much (I am talking about the expensive games and development point) I mean we were entering this age, and this period was started but it wasn't still the trend and we didn't know it would be like this with everything going forward. But other than that, keep in mind that 2023 includes holiday period too, which is like 6 years and 9 months, there were many saying 2023 holiday. And I also included 2024 too, not only 2023.

2. Yes it is, however since comparing it for the example I gave to the DS + PSP that was a handheld console market, that's why I used this termine. And the termine being irrelevant now wasn't my point, my point was handheld console buyers were more back then, therefore the number of handheld console buyers now is not mind blowing. For a single system it is. 2 different points of view.

Last edited by XtremeBG - on 28 September 2024