| JackHandy said: I am more than willing to have my mind changed, but I need something more compelling than that. Basically, your premise is the system sells the game. Mine is the game sells the system |
Hardware sells software too. For example, if you can only play portable because you spend a lot of time commuting doesn't matter if the best game ever released is in a stationary console, because your gaming habits needs a portable device
When I got my Switch before my PS4 was simply a matter of "which one I will play more?", because at that time I used to stay weekends in another house, and a portable device came really handy here
Switch inherited the audience of 3DS, I say that because I was a 3DS owner who didn't really care at all for Wii U. Switch was in part a continuation of the games I enjoyed in 3DS
I believe many people simply didn't have the money to buy 3DS, Wii U, Vita, Xbox One and PS4 at the same time (even if you bought all systems you might not have the money to keep regular purchases to all them), so choices were made. Vita bombed hard because people prefered 3DS, while Wii U bombed hard because people prered PS4 and Xbone
Now there is only a single Sony and Nintendo systems it's easier to have both (albeit I believe, at the expense of Xbox), so their sales don't cannibalize as hard as last gen
