Switch 2 Sales Predictions: Next PS2 or Wii U Disaster?

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Sephiran said:

I think its hard to set a baseline of Switch 2 sales.

How big is the ''core Nintendo audience''? That is hard to answer, given that we know roughly the baseline for a low performing Nintendo home console with Wii U and Gamecube (10-20 million), but that baseline is harder to predict when it comes to a Nintendo hybrid system. It seems going by history that Nintendo has fewer diehard fans that will never stop buying their systems than Sony has with PS for example. Nintendo thus has to hit certain sweetspots to achieve success, good exclusive games, appealing hardware concept, decent third party support, decent price point in order to have a good console generation when it comes to sales potential.

So "core Nintendo audience" doesn't include their handheld platforms? Looking at just WiiU and GC completely ignores the third highest selling video gaming ip and highest grossing multimedia ip in history called Pokemon. That's the issue with not treating Nintendo's home and handheld consoles as if they didnt compete for Nintendo's audience is weird. We are now talking about a platform that appeals to both the home amd handheld audience. Nintendo's home and handheld consoles conbined definitely prove Nintendo has a very large core audience maybe even larger than PSs I could argue. Nintendo's handheld audience is made of Mario, Pokemon, Animal Crossing, etc fans not portable fans. Those portable players play for the GAMES, if it was the portability then Vita wouldn't have sold worse than WiiU.