This shouldn't surprise anyone because it has both launch month and holidays,which is a huge advantage.btw congrats Nintendo and i hope that more third parties game sell on the hybrid than the same old Nintendo games.

I wonder if this will have an effect on future console release dates.

I return to my point that being the first to get it to success doesn't make one the sole one to be able to achieve it.

Or shall we say Sony is the sole one that could have pulled a over 100M console on the market because they were the first one?

Not necessarily... there have been (un)successfull launched on March and November before... so Swtich being sucessful with a March release shouldn't impact much.

Companies want to release their products as soon as possible in the best slot. It is likely that Nintendo would release in November if they could have made it earlier, but wouldn't delay it just to release on November.

No, we wouldn't say that, since Game Boy reached 100 million four years before PS1 did.

It's possible, but it's still too early to tell. I could become a huge hit (like the Wii and DS), or maybe it will have amazing legs, but we can't tell that yet after just one year.

Don't know, but I can tell you it will probably have an effect on dedicated home consoles, as in we are never going to see those again with Nintendo and dedicated home systems are what I am more interested in, and since I haven't heard about a single other person wanting this, I think I can say with confidence that I'm the last guy on earth who wants a dedicated home console from Nintendo.

Hmm you guys think a market of 1 sale in the whole world could ever motivate Nintendo to do a dedicated home system again? 

Those numbers are really impressive.

But knowing the background of Nintendo, I don't know if they will support the system for many years. Also, the hardware in a few years will be really outpaced by the Ps5/Next Xbox, this means that the ports for the games released in those consoles will not be possible on the switch. Exclusive games will need to be make.

Nintendo Released the Big hitters in 2017: Zelda, Mario kart, Super Mario Odyssey, Splatoon, Xenoblade. I know I know that Pokemon and Metroid and a few more are pending. But the gap between each main game is like 3-5 years.

Nintendo doing awesome in America is not surprising to me. It just shows how unappealing the 3DS and Wii U were. Lifetime sales of the Switch should be between DS and Wii numbers but I think the Switch will be closer to DS numbers.

That's not what he's saying. None of the other 'switch-like' devices have seen the runaway success that the Switch has been, because none have had the first party support to back it up until third parties jump on board.

Sure, nintendo has done great work with indies in the last 1,5 years and has tried hard to woo AAA third party publishers, going so far as to hand Ubi their most presious IP to work on to secure an exclusive. And they have done this with some success. While Bethesda is showing great support and Rockstar, UBI and 2K moderate support, some, like EA and Capcom, are sluggish to jump onboard to say the least. A console wihtout the first party strenghth of Nintendo behind to drive sales could not have bridged the gaps in third party support still present. Nintendo was able to rely on their IP ad took risks that payed off in a major way with this system, while still working on improving their third party relationships.