Damn, OP failed hard only evre single his point. :D

Same here. I figured it would be a success but THESE numbers. I still don't quite understand it. But I'm glad it's happening. A healthy Nintendo is good for the industry. 

All the haters came out after the January event, needlessly hating and spouting doomspeak because, well, they were going to anyways. The January event was good, and it convinced me that the Switch was going to be a success.

They just need to fix the online experience now.

A web browser and streaming apps like netflix and Amazon prime are not to much to ask for in 2018. 

This thread is a great example of the unrealistic expectation of many users of this forum. The switch was/is a handheld. Nintendo’s worst selling handheld so far is the 3DS (excluding game/watch) with 70 mio units and people expct the switch to sell less then 13 mio units wtf.

Of course no one could predict Switch would be such a hit,but these "Switch will sell worse than Wii U" were silly from the start. Since the first viewing it was pretty obvious it would have done better...Wii U was a console that failed at the start at almost every single aspect.

This Neogaf topic is also pretty legendary: https://www.neogaf.com/threads/betting-time-do-you-think-the-switch-will-be-a-success.1333545/

Jesus...look how much drama people made because of that january presentation and the price of the console! Amazing how Nintendo inspire doom from people.

The narrative will change. Slowly but surely the same arguments against the Wii will come up. You can already see a glimpse of it: The Switch is for casuals. The Switch has a lot of shovelware. The Switch is a gimmick.

Calling it now.

Even more wrong then op. Gg.

Streaming apps (Netflix, Amazon, Youtube, Twitch, etc) I think are reasonable to want and I do hope Nintendo does partner up and deliver on them (though I am not fully convinced yet that this will happen, as only Hulu has been released so far). While I do not believe the value of these apps is as high anymore as they were before cheap streaming boxes, Smart TVs, and smartphones. Nevertheless, for certain people it might negate the need to purchase an entertainment tablet and it adds more value for the $300 asking price.

Web browsers are a bit more complicated. They are doubtlessly a good feature (again perhaps not as big as they once were before smart devices) and add value. On the other hand they are also a security risk. The 3DS, Wii U, Vita, and PS4 all have hacks that use the browser one way or another. There is a hardware hack being developed right now on Switch that will allow piracy (though Nintendo can address it with a revision to the hardware so it will not work on future systems) in the coming months; this hack was partially developed (or at least the speed of development was increased) because of a flaw in the mini web browsers that the Switch includes to access Wi-Fi hotspots that allowed hackers to look at the internal content of the console's storage. Again this was also related to a hardware flaw, so it is possible they might not have needed the browser at all, but the browser did give them help with information about some of the inner workings of the operating system. A full fledged web browser could become an easy entry point for future software hack, like they did on the other consoles I mentioned above.

it's a lot harder to label,Switch a casual console: no grandmas playing WiimSports here, but gimmick and shovelware, maybe.  There's definitely been a "no AAA games" narrative from day 1, but that's slowly becoming harder to substantiate.

at any rate, none of it matters if Nintendo can keep up the pace.  IMO, Nintendo failed the Wii in the last 2 years as we failed to get new concepts and tried harder and harder to push GameCubesque software at theWii market.  Wii gamers could have eaten up a fantasy swordfigting game with controls on par with Wii Sports Resort, but the closest we got was Skyward Sword which is weighed waaay down in baggage that Wii gamers weren't looking for: dialogue, puzzles and fetch quests galore.  Switch should be easier because the audoence already enjoys traditional gaming, but there are wyas it could go south.