Yes, after Nintendo abandoned the Wii U altogether, put their entire development focus on the platform, and cut the price severely. Let's not pretend the 3DS was a roaring success in its first few years. Have people seriously forgotten the disaster that the 3DS was early on? The "Ambassador" program?
You're literally proving my point once again. The 3DS was a disaster because it launched with Nintendogs+Cats and Steel Diver and then had nothing until Ocarina of Time 3D, which came out 3 months later. Then its next biggest game wasn't until Star Fox 64 3D, which came out 3 months later after that. Then the next big game wasn't unit Mario 3D Land which was another 2 months away. Seriously what exactly were people suppose to be buying the 3DS for its first year? There was literally a 8 months gap between its launch and the holiday season where the only games from Nintendo were two remasters of N64 games.
The Switch on the other hand just launched with Mario Kart World, the sequel to a game that sold about 70 million units. Has a brand new 3D platformer in Donkey Kong a month later that's from the Mario Odyssey team whose last game sold about 30 million units. Plus once again you actually have major third party game on the Switch 2, something the 3DS didn't have. We already have reports from North American NPD that Cyberpunk was the second best selling game for the Switch 2 launch in North America. Which shows that a lot of the people buying the Switch 2 aren't all hardcore Nintendo fans who only care about the most recent Nintendo games.
Not sure why you keep comparing the 3DS to the Switch 2, when the situation for both systems is the complete opposite.
Pessimist me still thinks because of pricing, lack of true Switch 2 exclusives, and its iterative nature will have sales be more of a slow burn. I have a hard time recommending it to anyone outside of our slice of gaming, especially when a lot of my friends are rocking Steam Decks. But maybe I'm discounting a deep hunger for more MarioKart.
You're once again proving my point about people online living in a bubble. The Steam Deck has sold less than 4 million units since it came out 3 years ago. There's a good chance the Switch 2 either outsold it by the end of last week, or has done so by the end of this week. Plus how many times do I need to say it, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe sold close to
70 million units.
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/software/index.htmlMario Kart is literally one of the biggest franchise in gaming. Anyone that wants to play the newest Mario Kart will need to buy a Switch 2. You can't recommend them any other system when no other system will have the newest Mario Kart.
Even when expecting a drop off in sales, when you compare what happened with the DS/Wii era to the 3DS/Wii U era, the best selling Mario Kart of the DS/Wii era was Mario Kart Wii which did 37 million units while the best selling Mario Kart of the 3DS/Wii U era was Mario Kart 7 which did about 19 million units. So even if you had a similar drop between Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Mario Kart World, Mario Kart World would still end up selling around 35 million copies. Which would literally put it about what Mario Kart Wii sold, which was on a system that did over 100 million units.
Of course keep in mind the main reason for Mario Kart's drop was because of the lose of the Nintendog/Brain Age/Wii Sports/Wii Fit audience that made up a large part of the DS and Wii. The Switch on the other hands biggest sellers behind Mario Kart are Animal Crossing, Smash Bros, 3D Zelda, 3D Mario, Pokemon which all have a history of very constant sales and very dedicated fanbases. Hell in the case of Animal Crossing it did better on the 3DS then it did on the DS, despite the 3DS having only half the audience. Pokemon X/Y only did a million less than Diamond/Pearl, while Sun/Moon did a million better than Black/White.
Nintendo's main franchise from many of it's 20-30 year series, that have had constant if not steady growth over that time span have done better then ever on the Switch. To suddenly expect them to sell even worse then their 3DS counterparts is just silly and would literally require something magical altering reality, or something like a nuclear war creating an apocalypse where nobody can play games anymore. Or course after certain event going on in the world right now, the later is kind of looking somewhat likely.
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