Around 60 to 80 million, similar to the 3DS.

On one hand, I was confident that a platform like the Switch would attract some of the best support from Nintendo's previous systems. Enough DS and 3DS XL's had been sold to convince me that an oversized handheld was not a major issue, and I was confident that Nintendo's mainstay series on consoles would sell in line with previous entries. My thoughts were "New 3D Mario and Smash are going to sell 10 million, Zelda will sell 7+ million, Pokemon will sell 15 to 20 million. So somewhere around 3DS levels sounds reasonable."

That said, I really didn't expect the degree to which games like Super Smash Bros Ultimate and Breath of the Wild would be much more successful on the Switch than on previous consoles. I predicted that Pokemon, Nintendo's handheld fuel, would take longer to develop new games on Switch, which ended up not being true. I also underestimated the degree to which third party developers, both indie and major, would be willing to port games to the Switch, even if these games are often practically ancient.

Thanks for this. Seems like I said 60mil. Despite showing my Nintendo bias in this site I thought I would say more lol. 

Yeah thats fine. It does have a high chance of achieving it now. I just remembered plenty of people brought this up during the Switch 1st year in numerous threads. 

lol, yikes. While this is true, I could also bring up my comment on Youtube where I knew this thing would be a huge success. I was trying to be edgy on the forums. In my defense, this comment was made based off of the software that year and their potential as evergreen titles. So while to you this may seem like a memory issue, it was more of an incomplete thought.

And picking on me? Bruh, it's videogames. Say whatever you want to say. At the end of the day, it's a videogame prediction...chill.

Edit: My comment is in there somewhere but I think you'll find it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5uik5fgIaI

Found it! November 2013 LMAO

I don't recall. Probably something low considering the failure that was the Wii U.

gg, post the thread.

I drew a picture using my amazing MS Paint skills of what I wanted instead of the WiiU after it was revealed. It was basically a Switch. 2 controllers attached to the side of a tablet that could dock and the upgraded wiimotes could be used as a split controller for big screen play. Whatever hosting site I used at the time is gone now though and wayback doesn't have it either.

I found another post where I do a few bullet points of how/why Switch will beat 3DS and the person quoting me says every one of my points is either nonsensical, illogical or completely baseless. I don't want to embarrass that person so I'll keep it to myself unless they're OK with it being posted.

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/173316/generation-8-prediction-time-worldwide/1/

80m. I figured it be a 3DS style success, but definitely didn't expect it to be Wii/DS tier.

"..I'll include the handhelds, because they're also 8th Gen, but I won't include this hypothetical 9th Gen Nintendo console of yours which somehow counts as some sort of 8th Gen hybrid. I don't think it's going to happen anyway...."

hehehe

Did Nintendo Tab = Tablet?