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Wman1996 on 03 September 2025
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ST.Tachyon said:

Tell that to Nintendo and BotW.
That game alone carried Switch to 10m, so its possible for one game to carry whole generation. Yes it later got more games but if BotW wasnt huge success who knows what would happen to Switch. If people counted Switch as competitor to PS4 and One then i would say that BotW won that war for Nintendo but people dont count Nintendo as competitor to these 2.
Also original Xbox had Halo, that game alone put Xbox on the map. So yes one game can carry console but i dont think one game can win console war.

Super Mario 64 carried Nintendo 64 for a while and games like Mario Kart and Ocarina of Time assured the system did not fail despite its underwhelming lifetime sales.

Yeah. One or two games can carry a console for a time to get people to buy it but as you said they can't win a console war. 



Lifetime Sales Predictions 

Switch: 161 million (was 73 million, then 96 million, then 113 million, then 125 million, then 144 million, then 151 million, then 156 million)

PS5: 122 million (was 105 million, then 115 million) Xbox Series X/S: 38 million (was 60 million, then 67 million, then 57 million. then 48 million. then 40 million)

Switch 2: 120 million (was 116 million)

PS4: 120 mil (was 100 then 130 million, then 122 million) Xbox One: 51 mil (was 50 then 55 mil)

3DS: 75.5 mil (was 73, then 77 million)

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