This puts some things in perspective.

This week's MC thread has already surpassed the last. 

Yeah despite being a succesor to the 3DS and Wii U sales aligned the Switch is just keeping up with the 3DS. Sales are excellent but this puts them into perspective. 

You are suggesting I never claimed Switch to be the 3DS + Wii U succesor? I've been pretty consistent with that. 

Going to double what the Wii U, PS4 and PSVita did in its first 52 weeks! 

That's good and all but it's a pity it can't succeed the sales of the consoles it's actually succeeding. It will struggle to surpass just the 3DS and that's only 1 of the consoles.  

As I said sales are healthy but this puts it into perspective. 

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Kind of did a double take when I saw the Switch numbers. Just how high is demand in Japan?

You do realize that Wii U had a relatively strong start in Japan, but started faltering soon after? As time goes on the gap will become bigger and bigger. 

3DS sold over 20 million units in Japan alone. Wii U sold just over 3 milllion. In other words: irrelevant numbers. 

And Switch is still supply constrained and won't need a huge early price cut like the 3DS did.

That definitely puts things into perspective, doesn't it?

What an attempt to spin this, lol. 

Switch sale are fantastic, especially considering that it is still heavily supply constrained and that Nintendo is basically selling everything they can produce at the moment. 

But because you had to desperately look for a reason to make them seem not as good (in your eyes at least) you went with "but it's gonna replace both consoles so these sales aren't actually that good!1!". 

There are people comparing Switch to consoles they shouldn't.  The only thing Switch should be compared to is 3DS + Wii U.  I've always maintained that. Comparing a hybrid to just a handheld or just a home console is infact moving the posts.