The Road to 160m+ for Nintendo Switch

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XtremeBG said:

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A big share of those 240 million handheld gamers in the 7th gen is now the phone gaming audience; the casual players who mostly played stuff like Brain Age and Nintendogs, or kids now getting a tablet instead of a DS.

Comparing Switch's sales to the combined install base of DS + PSP is not an apples to apples comparison because of this; the explosion in phone/tablet gaming stole away a huge amount of that audience, and Switch has to compete with that whereas DS and PSP for the most part did not.

Yes, I absolutely agree. But the point is still true. The handheld console market was once bigger. Therefore it's not mind blowing now.

I personally would want Sony and Microsoft to put out new handheld, because it will be interesting. Will it be possible for the handheld market to grow bigger than what it is now with the Switch ? Can they actually compete with Nintendo on this front and what portion of sales they can take from them ? Hopes the rumors become true. Only the customers win in that situation.

I would argue that Switch's sales are actually still pretty mind-blowing in their own right though, in the context that it has to share the market with everything from phones and tablets on the mobile side to Playstation and Xbox on the home console side.

With so many other options for one's gaming fix nowadays, a single platform tracking to outsell the DS, something no other system released in the last 23 years has come close to doing, it darn impressive in my opinion.