You still don't understand that "like the Wii" doesn't mean exactly like the Wii. One key point of being "like the Wii" is being an alternative to the AAA rubbish the industry churns out and Switch certainly fulfills that criterion. Your premise has been that Nintendo must please AAA third parties if they ever want to have a successful console again because "casuals and gimmicks" aren't going to cut it. Also, the Wii was selling primarily off traditional Nintendo IPs too. Switch's portable aspect certainly qualifies as gimmick. Switch's standard controller (Joy-Cons) is also a motion controller. Switch is very much like the Wii, but there's one big difference: The industry hasn't been able to think up anything to put it down, so the industry has mostly remained quiet about it.

The closing paragraph of my post wasn't about what Sony thinks, but what you think. You try to laugh off my post, but it doesn't reflect well on you that you didn't address the majority of my post.

It is ironic that you said in an earlier post in this thread that most people don't understand business and then here you are talking about revenue in order to claim superiority of Sony's console business.

The Switch is quite different than the Wii IMO.  The main gimmick of the Switch is offering the flexibility to take your console on the go but the focus of the system is on traditional gaming. Buttons and analog sticks. Whereas the Wii's main gimmick was to change the way video games are played and a lot of the success came for motion games like Wii Sports and Wii Fit. It attracted a different audience and many of those who bought the Wii for Wii Fit or Wii Sports didn't buy other traditional games in large volumes. 

The Switch is quite different than the Wii IMO.  The main gimmick of the Switch is offering the flexibility to take your console on the go but the focus of the system is on traditional gaming. Buttons and analog sticks. Whereas the Wii's main gimmick was to change the way video games are played and a lot of the success came for motion games like Wii Sports and Wii Fit. It attracted a different audience and many of those who bought the Wii for Wii Fit or Wii Sports didn't buy other traditional games in large volumes. 

You still don't understand that "like the Wii" doesn't mean exactly like the Wii. One key point of being "like the Wii" is being an alternative to the AAA rubbish the industry churns out and Switch certainly fulfills that criterion. Your premise has been that Nintendo must please AAA third parties if they ever want to have a successful console again because "casuals and gimmicks" aren't going to cut it. Also, the Wii was selling primarily off traditional Nintendo IPs too. Switch's portable aspect certainly qualifies as gimmick. Switch's standard controller (Joy-Cons) is also a motion controller. Switch is very much like the Wii, but there's one big difference: The industry hasn't been able to think up anything to put it down, so the industry has mostly remained quiet about it.

The closing paragraph of my post wasn't about what Sony thinks, but what you think. You try to laugh off my post, but it doesn't reflect well on you that you didn't address the majority of my post.

It is ironic that you said in an earlier post in this thread that most people don't understand business and then here you are talking about revenue in order to claim superiority of Sony's console business.

Agreed. The Switch has as much of the DNA as the N64 for instance as any other Nintendo platform. 

Revolutionary games thanks to high power v revolutionary games despite low power???

You can remove Ring Fit from the Switch and sales would basically be the same and it was already a proven success long before that released. 

Yeah, 10m sellers don't boost hardware sales.

I
has to sell an extra 37-38 million in years 7 (2023-24), 8 (2024-25), and 9 (2025-26) to get to 150m. That's about 12 mill/year. The odds of Nintendo not having a Switch sucessor by 2024 at least are low too. 

The DS having three years of 30m, 31m, and 27m is murderer's row, you're not likely to see a hardware platform ever do that again, so to make that up it means you have to ask a platform very late in its product cycle to perform very heavy lifting.

Now some miracle can happen like a new IP becoming the next Pokemon or something, but no one can really predict that. To beat/match the DS you really need to have a large lead over it in the early years, because realistically the Switch is not putting up three years of 30/31/27, no system can do that. That 27 is a real kick in the balls too, because it eats up a valuable 5th year for you to gain ground with, its not like they had two 30 mill years and then dropped down hard, 27m is I believe is still higher than the highest peak the Wii got to, lol. 

how about a more balanced life cycle with longevity?

Prediction Nintendo NSW

FY1 2.74m
FY2 15.05m (17.79m)
FY3 16.95m (34.74m)
FY4 20.76m (55.50m)
FY5 23.00m (78.50m)
FY6 20.00m (98.50m) [New Model]
FY7 18.00m (116.50m) [Price cut]
FY8 14.50m (131.00m)
FY9 12.00m (143.00m)
F10 and lifetime (150.00m)

I know you don’t believe in a system selling so long but it doesn’t have to peak up to 30mil to catch the DS, how many years did the ps2 hit over 25mil? Also ps4 will end roughly between 125-135mil lifetime. NSW could be ahead of that aligned by next year 

18, 14, and 12m in 2023, 2024, and 2025 is highly optimistic. Especially when Nintendo is unlikely to go that long without a successor. 

-Unlikely? Maybe but then again you think going by history that NSW will end it’s life cycle by that time. This is the first time Nintendo is supporting a unified platform. 

To keep sales at 22/22/20 lets say even for the next 3 years is going to require Nintendo to work very hard. 22/22/20 would require price cut and a new model and many, many big games (BOTW2, new Pokemon, new 2D and 3D Mario, probably a new Mario Kart as well to start with). 

-2020 doesnt even need much, it’s already at such a high demand, possibly higher than shortages during 2017. Nintendoncan delay most of its schedule and a few hitters  (paper Mario/3D Mario collection/3DW port) and be fine.

-2021- Could be excellent with software and still not need a price cut. Don’t forget there are many and I mean many mid tier franchises missing on NSW. It has the handheld library now and the evergreens will keep selling. I think another model is more likely here than a price cut (+Zelda anniversary year)

-2022-heavy bundles, more sequels and itll be in a better value situation then xsx and ps5 2nd year on the market due to price difference.

And you know what? The DS still builds a massive lead even selling at that rate which is ridiculously high, 22/22/20 is better than the three best years either the Wii or PS4 put up. But against the DS' triple whammy of 30/31/27 ... even selling at that rate puts you behind by another 22-25 million and it chews up your machine's remaining "young" years and into old age. 

-This is your opinion, PS4 never had any year sold more than 21mil and yet it’ll end up only behind by 20-25mil (from 150mil) sales curves are different for all hardware. Look at x360 in the US for ex

So now you're asking an old system that's already used up a lot of things like price cuts, revisions, and franchise catalog to have to do serious heavy lifting. Even if Switch 2 was 2024 lets say, the games for it aren't magically going to grow out of Nintendo's rear end, development will have to begin in 2021 or 2022 on the successor launch/first wave software which means development has to start winding down on Switch 1 then.