| Zippy6 said: Nintendo aren't forecasting that to happen though. 3DS shipped 6.4m in the year ending March 31st 2018. GBA shipped 8.33m year ending March 31st 2006. Switch is forecast for 4.5m in the year ending March 31st 2026 and for 3 of those months it's the current system. Unlike the 3DS in which the Switch was out for all of those 12 months, and the GBA which the DS was already out, and for a longer time in Japan. 3DS only dropped 12% YoY with the Switch launch, not the 58% YoY drop forecast here. Nintendo are forecasting a much faster death for the Switch than those two systems. The price difference was much bigger for 3DS (2DS was $80 by 2016, basically a quarter of the Switch price) and it had the advantage of Switch not being BC either. |
Yeah. These systems were way younger, relatively cheaper, and their successors weren't even marketed as such (third pillar strategy and all), so that makes sense.
