NSW2 Lifetime Sales

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HoloDust said:

curl-6 said:

Phones and hybrids are quite different niches; around the time Switch 1 came out a lot of people predicted that the prevalence of phone gaming would limit its sales as a portable device, yet it still went on to become one of the highest selling systems of all time.

I don't see any reason that would change this time around, attempts to bring console type gaming to phones have failed miserably, the audiences are after two very different things.

Sure, they are different...and there will always be fair amount of separation. Yet, I think that the overlap will become bigger as time goes on. Whether it's through MS pushing for Windows on ARM, VALVE being more aggressive with SteamOS, or via streaming (have you tried GeForce NOW lately? - it's actually mind blowing that you can play even with mouse+kb comfortably, let alone with gamepad). Especially this last one  - there is point in future where for a lot (if not most) people it is just more convenient to have their libraries be accessible from any device, even if at home they have their main device they prefer to play on.

This is not just Switch related, and might not even influence NS2 for better part of its lifecycle, but it's coming, for all, whether we like it or not.

I've been hearing this stuff for over a decade now since smartphones took off, yet attempts to try to bring core gaming to phones have consistently failed miserably. They're just two entirely different things, people don't go to their phones for the kind of experience you get on a console.