Well, it depends…
The benefit of hindsight makes it easy to declare that the Switch was a masterstroke in design that could not fail. That’d be revisionism, of course, as Nintendo released the system against a rather challenging backdrop in early 2017. The Wii U had been a failure, and that’s not hyperbole — it managed lifetime sales of just 13.56 million units, Nintendo’s worst return aside from the Virtual Boy. After a tough launch, the 3DS established itself as a popular device and shifted a respectable 75.94 million units to date across its various models. For context, though, that’s less than half the sales of the Nintendo DS family, the company’s best-selling system to date with 154.02 million sales.
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