In hindsight, was it always smart for Nintendo to never prioritize or pursue 3rd party support?

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Hardstuck-Platinum said:

KrspaceT said:

The Switch has sold 146 and a fair bit million units. 

The PS4 sold just shy of 119 and the PS5 is at 65.5ish million. 

The Switch has sold more, so shouldn't that make it the market leader? Hell even in slower points its still doing far better than an eight year old system should be doing.

I'm not trying to take away from it's success, but officially speaking in business market leader is determined by revenue. Playstation has 30B. Xbox about 25B and Nintendo about 15B revenue. In revenue Sony is market leader

Whether intentionally or not, invoking phrases like “officially speaking” introduces an appeal to authority fallacy, specifically a fabricated authority. This form of sophistry aims to lend undue credibility to an argument that lacks substantiated backing. The crux of the issue here is your conflation of platform market share with company revenue share. While revenue share may be synonymous with market share in investment contexts and 1:1 comparisons, that's not the case with the video game industry.

Market leaders in the video game industry are calculated the same way as other electronic platform markets, by user base of the platform. In the video game industry, this is calculated by the unit sales of the current consoles.

As has been pointed out, revenue is not used for this purpose because it includes diverse and unrelated streams—such as services, investments, accessories, legacy platforms, sectors outside the core market, and even products on competing platforms.

In other words, the Switch is considered the market leader because it has the largest number of owners and players within the dedicated gaming console market, measured by total unit sales. Company revenue, while indicative of financial success, does not reflect platform leadership in the market.