{"id":1928,"date":"2024-07-09T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2024-07-10T22:12:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T22:12:42","slug":"soapbox-has-nintendo-set-a-precedent-that-switch-2-cant-hope-to-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/2024\/07\/09\/soapbox-has-nintendo-set-a-precedent-that-switch-2-cant-hope-to-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Soapbox: Has Nintendo Set A Precedent That &#8216;Switch 2&#8217; Can&#8217;t Hope To Match?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The highest of bars.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><em>Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they&#8217;ve been chewing over. Today, Gavin ponders what &#8216;success&#8217; looks like for systems with impossibly popular predecessors&#8230;<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Looking back at Nintendo&#8217;s home console hardware sales over the past four decades, the line plotted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.jp\/ir\/en\/finance\/hard_soft\/index.html\">lifetime figures for each system<\/a> shows a steady decline for the first two decades before a couple of huge electrocardiogram-style peaks bringing us to today.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/soapbox-has-nintendo-set-a-precedent-that-switch-2-cant-hope-to-match\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highest of bars. Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they&#8217;ve been chewing over. Today, Gavin ponders what &#8216;success&#8217; looks like for systems with impossibly popular predecessors&#8230; Looking back at Nintendo&#8217;s home console hardware sales over the past four decades, the line plotted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1929,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions\/1929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}