I was told that Nintendo and the Switch were doomed because they waited until October to officially announce the console.

Then I was told they were even more doomed and no one would buy Switch because they were going to wait until January to fully reveal the console.

Then I was told Nintendo was doomed and the Switch wasn't going to sell because it was just the Wii U all over again and Nintendo never learns.

Now I'm sitting here looking at a still-sold-out console that is outpacing Wii, Wii U, and 3DS and a launch game that had over a 100% attach rate. In the current outlook (both inside and outside the company) it will come close to or surpass the lifetime sales of their previous console in the next year. So, with all due respect to the concerned fans, I'm going to remain skeptical of the current doom talk.

(Do I think Nintendo can just pack it up and not worry about the future of Switch? Absolutely not. They need to keep building on the success of their console and continually drive it forward. But I'm also not going to get my undies in bunch over one indie being upset their friendship with Nintendo didn't automatically entitle them to getting their port greenlit for Switch. Especially when there are 70+ indies working on Switch as we speak, and many of them have went on record with glowing praise for the process and working with Nintendo. There are limited internal resources and devkits available during the early days of a console. Nintendo decided on a set of priorities for their digital storefront and they are executing that plan. We'll see how it works out in the end, but the October announcement, the January reveal, and the console as a whole have all seemed to go pretty well for them thus far, so at this point they probably deserve some benefit of the doubt as well as the opportunity to keep rolling out their Switch business in the way they want.)

Anyway, good for Nintendo! A solid showing so far, and as a fan and gamer, I hope it continues. Good luck! I know there's going to be missteps and things I don't agree with along the way (they are perpetually doomed, after all,) but hopefully the forest continues to thrive despite a few fallen trees.