@botw: As you are no doubt clear, given your username and avatar, a new bit of hardware just launched that is selling entirely on the back of an exclusive game.
Exclusives can still sell hardware, if good exclusives exist at all.
What exclusive game? Breath of the Wild? That's not an exclusive game however much it may be touted as one. Also this is a Nintendo console, they don't exactly have third party on their side so almost the entirety of their sales will be for their first party games. Nintendo makes amazing games, and they pump out a lot of them, enough to justify a system on the back of the games alone, Microsoft and Sony don't subscribe to this way of conducting business and primarily survive on third party.
Did you know that the Wii U was discontinued and taken off shelves in January 2017? So as of right now, if you want to play BotW and you don't own a Wii U (which is just about everyone, given the Wii U's sales), the only choice you have is to purchase a Switch. It is effectively an exclusive, and BotW is what has been driving Switch sales.
Do you disagree with this notion?
You can still buy a Wii U regardless of its discontinuation, you can still play the game on a console that is not the Nintendo Switch.
It's not an exclusive game, it's on two completely separate platforms.
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