Topic: Will Switch out do Wii?

I don't get this opinion that Switch will need to keep up with Scarlett / XB1. By the time we get to the point where the majority of games are no longer crossgen, the Switch will be well into it's 5th or year. If it keeps up sales momentum until then and the userbase remains this hungry for games, the potential sales will be too high for companies to move on.

You have to remember their Fandom can't fathom the success of Switch so what else would one expect them to do but disparage the Switch. The Switch doesn't need AAA graphics to be a success that is has going for it and this stings their bunng holes. Here's their busted myths
1. Not graphics power-but sales are across the board for Switch and not slowing down because of it
2. Doesn't have enough Gaming library-what world are they living in, their own little small minded word that is.
3. This is a kiddy console-wow where they so wrong after 3 years sales going and going.
4. Example Witcher 3.... that's all that needs to be said.

The Switch needs to keep up with the Xbox Scarlett like the 3DS needed to keep up with the Xbox One and the DS needed to keep up with the Xbox 360 and the GBA needed to keep up with the original Xbox.

And my tv needs to keep up with the screen at my local movie theater.

I can see some have taken this comment at face value in their criticism of it. Honestly I see what you mean and somewhat agree, I don't think the Switch will capture the people that Nintendo captured in the Wii/DS era. With the Wii it was not just a Wii Sports machine but it was also the cheapest internet-connected product you could plug into your TV. When the DS launched the best game you had on your phone was Snake. A very different market than we have today for sure, the DS & Wii didn't have smartphones and smart TVs to compete with

Where I'd disagree with your overall conclusion would be that the Switch has the advantage of being in a different console market. It doesn't have to compete with a PSP equivalent it also doesn't have to compete with itself in the way that the Wii and DS competed with each other. So it's not quite as simple as saying Wii vs Switch, a closer comparison would be some subset of Wii/DS/PSP.

And in any case we already saw the size of the portable market in a smart-device world with the 3DS/Vita. If you combine that with Wii U sales for the "Nintendo home console" part of the Switch? As horrible as the Wii U and Vita performed all three combined sold more than Wii. Obviously the market is a bit smaller given overlap (1 Switch does the job of Wii U, 3DS and Vita) but it's a decent enough yardstick. And the stats kinda line up with that, currently it's selling ~20% faster than the 3DS did and ~15% slower than Wii

I think with a typical length console cycle the Switch will get very close to 100mill, prob somewhere ~90mill

• 1-2-Switch, Fit Boxing and Ring Fit Adventure sell just a tiny fraction of Wii Sports, Wii Play, and Wii Fit.
• Other mega-sellers like Super Mario, Mario Kart, Zelda, and Smash were available and just as successful on Wii.
• Wii had lots more of attractive innovations! Millions of Wii players are not interested in buying a Switch.
• All Wii games were 10€ / 10$ less and had much better deals on games with controller bundles etc.
• Wii didn't have tons of hardware issues, Switch's success is hampered by a lot of negative experiences.

So, no, I cannot see the Switch taking over the Wii. Though I think it can come close, since it combines two consoles into one.

This is why those not working for Nintendo Development will never work for them nor add to their innovations. These are the kinda statements only a mother could love and then say seya there is the door. If one hasn't noticed older games are coming to Switch (the sought after) but they will dismiss that notion as well. Put this way Wii is no longer production and that seals it's end game. Switch in 2+ years has amass what others couldn't do but we still have Naysayers trying to put down the Switch.

@SKTTR look what you have done by giving a opinion. 😉

Don’t worry @SwitchForce the force is with you. The switch will sell 200 millions

@SwitchForce It's not a put down to say the Switch won't surpass the Wii. The Wii was a freak. It had appeal to everyone, including those who don't normally game. Not many game consoles can make that claim, if any others at all (maybe the PS2 at the time doubling as DVD player). The Wii came out with those features when those features were new and people wanted to try them. It was a fad and like most fads, the people that bought into it have long since moved on and the things the Switch does similar aren't appealing to them anymore.

The Switch is a fine machine and will sell tons more, but surpassing the Wii is very doubtful.