Mozza
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We’re not even talking about unit sales here. The subject is Nintendo is one of the most profitable companies in gaming with their current strategy. Not good enough?
There was no price to pay for Nintendo. The Switch comes off the massive failure that the Wii U was. The truth is that the market for Nintendo was shrinking and the Wii was a flash in the pan, capturing a massively casual crowd that these days mostly play on their phones. It’s not the benchmark for what Nintendo did 2 generations later.
Correct the Wii and DS were like lightening in a bottle, at the time motion control and touch screens were a new thing, fast forward to the Wii U and 3DS and a ot of the casual market had moved on to smart phones and tablet devices, Nintendo were then making two consoles to sell around 88 million units or so of hardware, no wonder they combined it with the Switch, as this console will easily outsell both of these combined, will have a much higher software ratio, and will save Nintendo the extra cost of another machines development.