Otter said:
And yet the point remains. Do we depict the Switch as a decline because its hardware sales is quite a way below the 45m of the Wii + DS? I just don't find that to be a genuine or constructive angle. The PS5 has outsold the Vita and will fall just a bit short of the PS4. |
I don't know about "us" but I certainly do. Of course Nintendo saw a decline from the Wii / DS generation. There's absolutely no logical reason to simply ignore the handheld side of things. Do we measure success in the PC industry only by home computers and ignore laptops?
Nintendo's sales declined sharply from 7th gen (Wii + DS) to 8th gen (Wii U + 3DS) and then increased again with the Switch. Handheld sales count. We can't just always ignore what's inconvenient to us, no matter if that makes "our" company more or less successful.
