The Switch launch numbers are meaningless

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Norion said:

curl-6 said:

Could be a lot worse, there were at least a handful of people still expecting it to do 3DS numbers as late as 2019 lol.

True, funny as it may look now it's far from the most egregious miss; I remember a lot of predictions in 2017 that it would sell on par or even worse than Wii U.

Hell, I myself expected it to sell poorly after the January 2017 show; during the Wii U era the vibes were just rancid and it felt like Nintendo just couldn't get anything right.

There's a famous thread on neogaf about predicting how much Switch would sell, and 90% of posts are like "lol it's DOA."