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curl-6 on 07 April 2017

It is way, way too early to be talking about Switch outselling the Wii. Sure, it has had a strong launch, but so did the Dreamcast and Wii U.

Let's see how it's selling this time next year.



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Soundwave on 07 April 2017
curl-6 said:

It is way, way too early to be talking about Switch outselling the Wii. Sure, it has had a strong launch, but so did the Dreamcast and Wii U.

Let's see how it's selling this time next year.

N64 could also be thrown into that mix. Selling through the first 2-3 million is the easy part. 



p0isonparadise on 07 April 2017

SNES, PS2, Wii, and the PS4 all had strong launches, too.



curl-6 on 07 April 2017
p0isonparadise said:
SNES, PS2, Wii, and the PS4 all had strong launches, too.

But a strong launch does not guarantee strong long term sales. Switch's success is by no means in the bag, any talk of it outselling the Wii is jumping the gun at this point.



Safiir on 07 April 2017
KLXVER said:
Soundwave said:

Microsoft has to start outselling Sony, and I'm not really convinced that's going to happen anytime soon. The most MS can do is make Sony sweat a bit in the US, but Europe and Japan .... not even a prayer. 

True, but they released the Pro without anyone close to them. I just found that to be a bit odd. They must have felt threatened by something.

Why? They're making money off of the Pro so why shouldn't they release it?



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KLXVER on 07 April 2017
Safiir said:
KLXVER said:

True, but they released the Pro without anyone close to them. I just found that to be a bit odd. They must have felt threatened by something.

Why? They're making money off of the Pro so why shouldn't they release it?

Do you have a source for that?



p0isonparadise on 07 April 2017
curl-6 said:
p0isonparadise said:
SNES, PS2, Wii, and the PS4 all had strong launches, too.

But a strong launch does not guarantee strong long term sales. Switch's success is by no means guaranteed, any talk of it outselling the Wii is jumping the gun at this point.

I know, I was just using that logic against you. ;)

Just becasue a console has a fantastic launch doesn't mean it'll end up being a hit, but many have.



curl-6 on 07 April 2017
p0isonparadise said:
curl-6 said:

But a strong launch does not guarantee strong long term sales. Switch's success is by no means guaranteed, any talk of it outselling the Wii is jumping the gun at this point.

I know, I was just using that logic against you. ;)

Just becasue a console has a fantastic launch doesn't mean it'll end up being a hit, but many have.

Oh I'm not saying Switch won't be a success. It may well be. All I'm saying is I think it's far too early to be making long term projections, especially of outselling the 3rd highest selling console of all time.



NintendoPie on 07 April 2017

It's easy to gain a lot of ground when you've lost so much recently.



KLXVER on 07 April 2017
NintendoPie said:
It's easy to gain a lot of ground when you've lost so much recently.

It is? Sounds like that would make it harder...