The Road to 160m+ for Nintendo Switch

[Norion]

Phenomajp13 said:

Norion said:

I mentioned 140m being the absolute minimum for it back in 2021 with me expecting it to most likely end up in the 150's and having 170m as a high end expectation back then is completely different from thinking as recently as this year that that was still a possibility or even likely to happen. It's humorous that you of all people accuse someone of having their feelings hurt with how often you lose it over someone being negative towards Nintendo.

I'm not hurt at all really, I'm just enjoying myself and I've been pretty accurate with the Switch overall since I've been saying I expected it to either barely miss or barely beat the PS2 for a while so I have no idea what you're referring to with me being far off base with it. Like I expected it to be a big success as early as April 2017 so thinking I wanted it to fall off a cliff and am hurt that it never did till now is completely baseless. I've literally said that I think it'd be cool if it beat the PS2 and broke the record so really I have no idea where this nonsense is coming from.

You've been borderline running a victory lap in a few threads (this thread and the Switch quarterly thread) claiming a cliff came and how you were right about it missing the 13.5 million forecast like no one else thought that was possible along with why it even bothers you so much that others are still optimistic on the console? I mean even in the Switch 2 vs PS5 for 2025 thread, it bothers you that so many people are voting for Switch 2? Like why does it matter to you how many people are optimistic about Switch 2? Im not sure how you can even be taken serious with your Switch fell off a cliff stuff when this is the definition of a console that didn't. Weird behavior for someone that also thought 170 million was possible. 

My cliff comment in the quarterly report thread was largely making fun of the people who kept predicting the Switch to fall off a cliff a long time ago so much that it became a meme here. There's also an element of making fun of the people who expected the Switch to somehow not have a huge decline due to the Switch 2 so I get that you see anti-Nintendo bias everywhere but there are people who try to be reasonable and make fun of nonsense regardless of where it comes from which includes overly optimistic or overly pessimistic predictions about the Switch 2.

A part of my "victory lap" was literally poking fun at the people who predicted the Switch to sell less than 140m as recently as 2021 so your characterization of me as someone against the Switch is completely absurd. Really your initial comment was utter nonsense not even remotely based in reality so the weird behaviour here is only coming from you mate.

Last edited by Norion - on 09 May 2025