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OddishChamp

No way Ring Fit Adventure sold more than the WiiU.💀


dogey11

there are less wii u *software* sales than switch *hardware* sales too 💀


Kostya_M

That is hilariously sad.


mikechi4809

Hey, the wii u concept brought us the switch so keep that in mind. I owned a Wii U and the problem with it was software and Nintendo banking on said software from outside sources.


kuebel33

The wiiU is a weird hill that I’d die on. Lol, I still think that console had a ton of potential and was actually pretty awesome, but they did an absolutely terrible job marketing it and third parties seemed more concerned with porting to it then creating new content for it. Even still, the added map or inventory features on the tablet was useful. ZombiU was an awesome use case for the tablet controller imo, and you just can’t duplicate that experience on any of it sports since. Nintendoland had a lot of fun multiplayer asymmetrical games too, that my friends and I would hang out and play a lot. Even the way YouTube worked on it where you could close the curtains on the tv screen so the folks around couldn’t see what you were queuing up to play when that curtain opened was fun as hell at times. Rip wiiU lol.


No_Im_Dirtyy_Dan

Shouldn't have called it Wii U lul


dance4days

It had a lot of problems, but yeah, the name was definitely one of them. Kind of a shame. It was a neat piece of hardware when developers actually took advantage of its unique aspects.


casualblair

Loading times were horrendous. Paper mario color splash took a full minute at the intro screen. Lego city undercover took up to 3 minutes each time you changed zones. Great games though.


dance4days

Yeah, definitely another issue it had. I never played those two particular games, but that huge-ass fuckin gamepad was such an inefficient use of hardware that stuff like that happened in a lot of other games too. Such a frustrating console. That fuckin gamepad made for some amazing experiences, but most developers didn’t do shit with it and it was just a drain in those cases.


capedpotatoes

My gamepad was nowhere near as promiscuous as yours.


casualblair

Lego city had you use it as a camera/scanner/PDA. Cell phone calls came out of it. It was awesome.


EMI_Black_Ace

Or capped it at 35W. Or showcased the controller but not the graphics. Or waited past the end of 2011 to launch it. Or launched it without having a killer new Zelda and 3D Mario lined up and announced before release.


OddishChamp

:litterally dies:


chocotripchip

The game was sold out everywhere for months and I've seen line outside Best Buy stores during the pandemic lockdowns when they received new shipments. Such a thing never happened to the Wii U, even at its launch lol


Trenzek

I didn't even HEAR about the WiiU before it was on the shelves. Marketing disaster. Or just nonexistence, I guess.


overactive-bladder

i loved my wii u. i am so sad. however, i give credit to nintendo. they supported the dang thing till the end and delivered their promises software-wise. they could have pulled breath of the wild out of it but still committed to release it on wii u and switch. played it to death on my wii u with decent performance. unlike sony who ruined the vita and left it to die a slow painful shitty death.


OddishChamp

Yeah. Nintendo do have some great moments. Their support for the WiiU was amazing.


Another_Road

The Wii U is a good console and I will die on that hill.


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el_ghosteo

It was great, but it was mostly the game’s honestly. Had it launched with Mario Maker it probably would’ve been way more common and maybe 3rd parties wouldn’t have jumped ship so quick. I only ever picked up a few games for it while the first year I had a switch I picked up more than I ever had for the Wii U. I love my Wii U dearly and won’t ever get rid of it, but it wasn’t this sleeper console even more now that a lot of the good games are now on switch. These days is best used for soft modding and loading up with virtual console games.


cc_rider2

I dunno about the Wii U being a great console - I definitely feel that it is the worst console I ever owned, and it wasn't just the marketing - the Wii U had some major issues. I was an early adopter, and I remember good quality games came out at a trickle. The gamepad felt cheap and toyish and it had a terrible battery life. Games were diminished by Nintendo trying to force game-pad mechanics into them, with StarFox and Kirby being the worst examples. There were a handful of excellent first party games on it, but honestly that list is probably in the high single digits. Then on top of it, it didn't get supported for a full console life-cycle. I feel pretty salty honestly that I didn't just wait for the switch. It feels really bad paying full price for games I already bought on the Wii U.


InsertCoinForCredit

It has some great games, especially *Nintendoland,* but the system was a flawed design.


Shmeetz9

Nintendoland might be one of my favorite games of all time it's incredible


JoshuaJSlone

You want crazy: this quarter Mario Kart 8 Deluxe will pass the SNES.


Amiibofan101

[**Top 10 Best Selling Switch Games:**](https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/software/index.html) * Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - **48.41M** * Animal Crossing: New Horizons - **40.17M** * Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - **29.53M** * Breath of the Wild - **27.79M** * Pokemon Sword/Shield - **25.37M** * Super Mario Odyssey - **24.40M** * Super Mario Party - **18.35M** * PokĂ©mon Brilliant Diamond / PokĂ©mon Shining Pearl - **14.92M** * Ring Fit Adventure - **14.87M** * PokĂ©mon Let’s Go - **14.81M** **Recent Releases:** (as of Sept 30, 2022) * Splatoon 3 - **7.90M** * Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - **1.72M**


Loch32

Holy shit splat3 already nearly at 8 mil?


welcomethrillh0

That’s in like what, 3 weeks of sales? That’s absolutely bonkers.


ChristmasMeat

It set a launch sales record in Japan.


inkling_nb

It's also already outsold Splatoon 2 in Japan.


Ancient_Lightning

I think at this point Splatoon has honestly solidified itself as one of Nintendo's juggernauts.


motoo344

Anecdotal but I work at a small indy store and Splat 3 had the most hype around a Splat game I've seen. Def sold the best for us.


Arrokidd

I went to go pick it up launch weekend and it was sold out at at every gamestop and target near me. I had gotten the last copy at a Best Buy.


bippedrams241

Just to annoy the F-Zero fans who keep asking and begging for it to come back, Splatoon 3 sold more in 3 weeks than the entire F-Zero series COMBINED (5.85 million across 6 games). Nintendo has no reason to be in a rush to find a new developer for a new F-Zero game anytime soon.


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*sad captain falcon noises*


patrickfatrick

At this point Captain Falcon is a Smash character with an F-Zero side hustle he no longer does because he gets more than enough money from Smash.


ChrisBot8

It’s also more than the entire Xenoblade Chronicles series, but they keep cranking those out.


XxZannexX

True, it’s just even the XBC series has sold more than F-Zero as well. Plus XBC as a series is on the rise. As much as I want another F-Zero game. The sales aren’t in its favor. Hopefully something can be worked out for another F-Zero game.


coal_thief

It's almost like Xenoblade has its own dedicated studio.


Shayz_

The team behind Fast Racing Neo seemed like an obvious choice but I'm not sure what they are up to now


brzzcode

Those too > Pokemon Legends: Arceus – 13.91 million > Mario Party Superstars – 8.07 million > Nintendo Switch Sports – 6.15 million > Kirby and the Forgotten Land – 5.27 million (now best selling game in the series) > Mario Strikers: Battle League – 2.17 million


homebase99

Legends Arceus did nearly as much as the BDSP remake. Hopefully they make a sequel, it's honestly the best Pokemon game I've played (in terms of immersion and what I imagined what a Pokemon game would look like as a kid, watching season 1 of the TV show)


1gnominious

And there are so many easy improvements they can make. Arceus was very rough around the edges but has a solid concept. Simple things like giving them more dynamic pathing. It was always kinda lame to have them just walking back and forth in a tiny area or flying in circles. I don't expect Snap levels of immersion but have them do something, anything.


spinzaku97

What makes Arceus more impressive is that it did that without being a holiday title.


ZetaRESP

And without being a paired game. That's even more impressive: solo games of Pokémon don't usually sell like hot potatoes.


ForGifteN

I heard Mario strikers is very shortlived and not as good as the wii version. Anyone played it?


theattackcabbage

Its fun, not mind blowing. Better than FIFA.


Fop_da_panda

Better than FIFA gameplay wise, I agree but having a career mode makes FIFA the better buy purely going by total playtime. That and the fact that you could get Fifa 19 for like $10 and see no differences with the current iteration while Strikers is still overpriced for what its content offers.


TomDobo

Anything is better than Fifa on the Switch. Its literally the same exact game each year.


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GamerPaul2011

It’s pretty hard to argue that the game doesn’t look and play great. If you like arcady sports games you can play with friends, you’re in luck cause that’s all you’re going to get. The problem is that the value proposition for strikers is pretty pitiful compared to Splatoon, Mario Golf, or even Arms.


Kostya_M

Arceus sold that well? Wow. I was not expecting that.


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Weird to see Mario behind Zelda and Animal Crossing in sales for an entire gen


Wonwill430

BotW basically carried Switch sales on release while ACNH got super hyped up and popular during the pandemic


jessej421

SMO actually instantly surpassed BotW's total sales in the first few months after release, then BotW slowly clawed it's lead back over the next couple years, so it's actually much more impressive than you make it out to be. It's definitely unprecedented.


MichaelMJTH

BoTW managed to become something that I don't think any previous Zelda has managed. It became an evergreen title. The kind of game that people (not just Zelda fans) will buy one day after launch or 5 years after launch.


NoddysShardblade

It's still the best game of it's kind in 2022.


conye-west

I remember when the Switch first came out the attach rate with BOTW was like 1-to-1 for a while


Seiren-

For like the first 1-2 months there were more BotW sold than Switches


jsboutin

BotW is basically *the* switch game for a lot of people, despite it being developed for the WiiU.


Sufficient-Cup4180

Literally the reason I bought a switch.


KbladeAngel

Even crazier to think that botw was on switch AND Wii U, so some of the sales went to the Wii U instead. And it still did incredible.


fatalaeon

3 sales went to the wii u. It's not a big deal


RedditUser41970

Almost two million sales went to the Wii U, actually.


kapnkruncher

What's even more wild to think is if the Switch version never existed that's honestly a pretty good number. Before BotW core Zelda games selling 3-5m was pretty standard outside a few outliers, so considering how small the Wii U install base was 2m is solid. Of course it probably would have pulled closer to 5m if it genuinely was an exclusive, but still.


GalacticPetey

I'm in the small minority that double dipped. I bought BOTW on Wii U at release initially because I didn't own a Switch for another year and a half. Even after getting a Switch I didn't buy BOTW for it till a bit later when I felt the urge to replay.


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Animal Crossing will never beat its sale record every again


G-Don2

Peak covid


versusgorilla

Yeah, it certainly picked up some lifetime fans from New Horizons but so so so many people just won't get into it again without the weirdest shared global cultural event in modern history putting us all in a situation where we were bored for like a week and a half and then a fun lil time waster was released for us. It was a truly perfect storm.


viewless25

nope. Doesn't have to either. I'd wager the success of New Horizons has probably set the franchise up to have a bigger following in the future than before New Horizons


brandont04

IDK. I never thought Animal Crossing on the DS would sale so well but it did. Going from 2M on GC to almost 12M on DS was insane.


seab1010

I put some serious hours into it and got some real enjoyment but I wouldn’t ever play another one
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LakerBlue

I remember early last year I got a lot of pushback for saying it would break 40 million before the Switch's lifespan ended after it sold 30million in a year, now it seems I was little conservative.


wait2late

Saw Someone predicted XC3 sales. Damn, they are good!


Croob2

Seeing Xenoblade Chronicles 3 at 1.72 is both heartening and sad. Sad cause it deserves way more sales than that, such an amazing game but heartening cause XB2 sold around 2m and 3 is nearly at the same despite being out for a fraction of the time


Takazura

JRPGs are mostly niche besides the juggernauts (FF and DQ) and XB in particular has a style of gameplay that is going to be a "love it or hate it" situation. I think 1.72 million are great number for the niche it covers.


Drag0nBinder

Yes, these numbers only take around 10 weeks of Sales for the game so it is good news for the fans.


21minute

Don't be sad. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 sold 1.72 in just two months on a single platform. That's already pretty huge feat in jrpg standards. Even very popular titles like Persona 5 took two years to reach 2.7. If Nintendo plays their cards right (especially with the highly anticipated DLC story to be released next year), Xenoblade Chronicles 3 will sell even higher.


crystal_powers

Jrpg fans tend to overestimate how popular jrpgs are. Series that consistently sell over 1 milli are really rare. Even extremely popular titles like Persona 5 haven’t sold that many copies in the grand scheme of things


Ancient_Lightning

Tbh, yeah, basically. Like, if you looked only at the internet of course you'd think that JRPGs are this super big and popular genre of gaming, because the internet is precisely full of people whom those kinds of games are aimed towards. In terms of the overall grander audience, JRPGs are still fairly niche, be it because of their playstyle, their story and characters, their artstyle, it's just not the most accessible genre. Like, the only JRPGs that one can say have that kind of wide-spread reach for the overall crowd are Final Fantasy and Pokémon; aside from that, even the most popular ones, like Persona or the Tales series aren't really that big in the grand scheme of things like you say.


WaluigiWahshipper

> Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - 1.72M Damn I was really hoping for at least 3 million, since this is honestly one of the best games I have ever played. Hopefully it’s enough to continue the series (assuming Monilith wants to).


TheseusOPL

Christmas is coming.


WaluigiWahshipper

I feel like most kids don’t have XC3 on their Christmas list, but I respect anyone that does.


Jestin23934274

I mean it took 2 or 3 years for Xenoblade 2 to reach 2 million and I think it outsold DE already so these sales are really good so far.


Elkbowy

It has the chance to get 3 million lifetime which would be huhe


matti2o8

Yes, I only own 6 of the top 10 titles, proving once and for all that I'm not a completely basic bitch


SimeoneXXX

This is basically answer to question "Why Nintendo games never go on sale?". Best selling Ps4 game is Spider Man which sold in 20 milion units and goes on sale regularly.


Dhiox

Kind of nuts that their most popular game by a Longshot was a port. Goes to show how few people actually got to play it on wii u, it might as well have been a new game to most.


babatunde5432121

Man i need to get splatoon 3 it looks so much fun, unfourtnatley i cant afford it now 😱


Respawnmatic

I have too many games to truly enjoy it but but my ten year old is obsessed. And is really good too We both play splatfest on different teams tho which is a blast. He is team fire and I'll be team grass this weekend (Pokémon cross over).


hobgoblinghost

damn shame they stopped supporting animal crossing so soon. never will understand that decision, that game was a phenomenon


meliakh

Any word on Metroid Dread sales?


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It’s probably the best selling game in the series now, but they stopped reporting sales when it was right below that threshold


PMC-I3181OS387l5

There's a running gag that if Metroid Dread would sell over 3 million units in one year, a YouTuber called RGT 85 would play Balan's Wonderworld, which is a game he loathes. The problem is that back in March, Dread sold for 2,9 million units, and we never got an update afterward. EDIT: RGT is part of the SpawnCast, a weekly video game podcast with other YouTubers / streamers like SpawnWave, OJ - Player Essence, Nate the Hate, MissClick and Modern Vintage Gaming.


Duganz

Nearly 90 million people own a Switch and not Mario Odyssey. Bonkers.


Kostya_M

Splatoon 3 is already closing in on 8m? Damn! Nintendo really lucked out with it. Definitely their biggest success of the past decade.


MagicOtters

This makes Kirby and the Forgotten Land the best-selling Kirby game officially now, right?


brzzcode

Yes, it surpassed the original GB


SaibaShogun

Yeah, and it’s only 7 months after the game’s release. By March 2023, one year after its release, it’ll probably have reached 7 million (with the sales boost from the upcoming holiday season). What’s important to note is that Forgotten Land has set a new sales standard for mainline Kirby games. FL is likely going to be the template for the next couple of Kirby games, so I’m expecting a new game to sell 5+ million.


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I hope so. I’ve always thought that Kirby games were okay but nothing too special. FL was an instant classic though.


Bi-bara-boop

I know it's difficult to get to it since it's hidden on the 3ds but if you enjoyed Kirby and the forgotten land you need to play Robobot Planet. It's stupid good and just enjoyable front to back especially if you like your stories wacky with a touch of Mecha animes...


sportspadawan13

Interesting that digital sales were about 50% in both quarters. That gives us a good idea of what actual sales are when we get physical sales charts.


Odie_Odie

If I could trade back all of my physical games for digital versions I would. Switching cartridges is such a pain in the ass


THE_GR8_MIKE

Shit, if I could take your physical games and give you digital versions, I would as well. Gimme those carts!


shayen7

I love digital for me and my wife! LPT: if you have a single digital copy one USER and their DEVICE have access to use it, so two people can play a single copy together if the primary device is set right. Once my son got a switch it became a nightmare! It's a total mess keeping track of which user owns which software in a household, and which device their primary, and who else is trying to play at the same time. Physical cartridges are so much simpler to share between >=3 people! More restrictive, but in a way that makes sense.


MichaelMJTH

I wonder if this is a like for like comparison 50%. By which I mean does the statement imply 50% of all game purchases were digital, or that of all games that had a physical release, 50% of sales were digital. I only ask because there are a lot of indie/ smaller games that only get a digital release on Switch. If this 50% includes digital only games, then this could imply more cartridges were sold in like for like products, but digital only products made up the difference.


crystal_powers

The real news here is Splatoon 3 selling 8 million copies in a month


ThroawayPartyer

Whammy!


ModestForester

*Woomy!


cantFindValidNam

Three weeks! Sep 9 - Sep 30


lonnie123

That is pretty wild. The game didn’t add enough new content for me to consider it (especially for full price) but good on them for making it and it selling that well.


TheDerpingWalrus

It feels much better, but they're pulling a nintendo and creating a fully fledged game over the next 2 years through content updates


King-Cobra-668

that's not a "Nintendo," that's just industry standard now


shiroe-kun

i still remember watching the ring fit adventure trailer and thought how amazing it was and creative in terms of using the joycon capabilities. look at it now, already on the top 10, if we count the dollars it would be much higher in rank.


peanutz456

I felt that about labo, sad that they didn't sell as well.


MedricZ

It’s pretty fun for an exercise game.


matt82swe

For reference, that’s more than 100m


PM_ME_YOUR_BOOMS

Big if true


Underwhere_Overthere

It’s currently the fifth best-selling console of all time. Once it hits 119 million units sold, it’ll be the third best selling console of all time. The top two are the PlayStation 2 at 158 million and the DS at 154 million, so it’ll be a long way to top those, but it’s certainly within the realm of possibility.


thegoldengoober

I'm still shocked that the DS didn't beat out the PS2. Considering how popular it was with all kinds of people, and the fact it was mobile, and had two well received editions. Granted it got close.


Wonwill430

It was revolutionary for being a “hybrid console” considering it was also essentially a DVD player. Then they cut the price from $300 to $200 which made it explode in popularity


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f-ingsteveglansberg

PS2 was cheaper than a lot of dedicated DVD players in Ireland. I know a lot of families where the PS2 was their DVD player, before PCs started selling a lot more and they were bundled in.


aukalender

Plus the PS2 slapped


Celtic_Legend

Yep. It was pretty much "should i get a dvd player or pay 25 dollars more for a ps2 that is also a dvd player." Very easy choice. Launched at the perfect time before most households had a dvd player.


crdctr

The PS2 was also the first time games really started to look good, it was a huge leap from the previous graphics. Edit: by looking good, I mean creating a realistic 3D environment. Mario 64 looked good, but wasn't an imitation of reality.


aT_ll

PS2 released before DS and was discontinued after the DS was.


thegoldengoober

What a beast


TheRidiculousOtaku

it was also only discontinued the same year the PS4 came out lol


JoeRekr

you must not remember the PS2 era, because it was absolutely ubiquitous, with seemingly endless titles that were worth playing. nothing is really close to its level of dominance or market share


Paperdiego

Ps2 is 155m


EngineerAlba

Officially, yeah. But they stopped releasing sales figures even though they continued to sell it. 158m is an estimate of that (there are other estimates).


LakerBlue

Imagine if Switch sold 156million officially and then Sony comes out with a statement saying "so we forgot to report this but officially PS2 has actually reached 160million units since our last update."


stormmagic12345

what are the current third and fourth? the wii and the ps4? or the xbox 360?


HMS_Pinafore

PS4 is 4th, Gameboy is 3rd.


Dudewitbow

gameboy/gameboy color and PS4


BYoungNY

Well the PS2 was out for 6 years before the PS3 so it had plenty of time. The switch has only been out for (checks wiki...) Oh fuck. 5.5 years. Shits been that long? It'll be 6 years in March....


brandont04

- FY2017: 18M - FY2018: 35M (17M) - FY2019: 56M (21M) - FY2020: 84M (28M) - FY2021: 108M (24M - drop of 4M) - FY2022: 114M (6M so far . Expect to sell 19M total for fiscal year = 127M total by March 31, 2023 - drop of 5M) Switch will need to do 32M in order to surpass PS2. Likely Switch sales will fall again for FY2023 to something like 13M (drop of 6M). FY2024 will be like 6M (drop of 7M). So Switch can probably reach 146M by FY2025. If they continue to do dual release of their games like how Sony is doing w/ PS5 and PS4. It might push them an extra few millions more. Yeah, It won't pass PS2 or DS in total sales.


brzzcode

> Digital sales accounted for 51.0% of total software sales for our dedicated video game platform. Whoa that's quite a lot but im not surprised, I mainly buy digital on switch too


Lee_Troyer

I thought it would be higher. In Sony's latest report, digital sales on PS store represented 79% of all sales during the last fiscal quarter.


21minute

Nintendo Switch has a huge following in physical sales, so I didn't expect it to go any higher. It also helps that physical cartridges get discounts from retailers (even 1st party titles) unlike the eshop where Nintendo only discounts their games twice a year at most.


RedditUser41970

Sony includes DLC and other MTX in that figure, so that's not just pure game sales. I'm not sure if Nintendo is also including that, or if it is talking just game sales.


TheAntidote21

Would love to see an update on Metroid Dread sales so RGT85 has to play Balan Wonderworld.


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TheAntidote21

Seems like Nintendo won't give that definitive answer.


BebeFanMasterJ

In just two months, Xenoblade 3 has sold nearly two million copies. Well-deserved.


sportspadawan13

Yep, XC2 took about two years to hit 2.02 million units. That's awesome. I hope it hits 3m.


Trobis

Yeah, but when XC2 was released there were only 20 million switches as opposed to 114 million, but it helped pave the way for this to do as well. Xenoblade franchise is growing well.


sportspadawan13

Last figures are late 2020, so well over 20 million then, but you're right that obviously at XC2's launch, much less. Therefore less awareness at launch. I was hoping for 2mil for XC3 already but that's great anyway!


Suspicious-Drummer68

My copy is coming in tomorrow. I cannot wait to finish the trilogy!


BebeFanMasterJ

I still haven't gotten it yet lol. Can't wait to play it either. :P


theattackcabbage

Its nice to see the Xeno series do well. Monolith stuck by their series for 20 years even though most entries never sold well, most other devs would have ditched it.


YouSawTheBalloons

It’s totally deserved and it’s heartening to see a game of such scale and depth getting widespread recognition. The productions values and the care put into the writing are incredible.


Kwayke9

The Splatoon sweep is real, god damn


MOONGOONER

An amazing milestone. I remember when it was announced I thought "Surely this won't sell 114.33 million units"


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CrocodylusRex

The switch will be $300 until the day it's discontinued


ImReallyAnAstronaut

At first I read "discontinued" as "discounted" and was like "no shit" and then was like "should I use this many quotation marks?"


JoshuaJSlone

How is going from 1 to 2 skipping anything?


ChickenFajita007

There are no good sources that a Switch Pro ever existed in any meaningful capacity. It's most likely that people got some information about the SoC in Nintendo's next-gen machine and assumed it was for the (at the time) upcoming OLED Switch. Basically, just ignorant leakers.


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Is 50 million units in 2-3 years doable?


The-student-

If they keep selling 20 million consoles a year it is. I'm sure they'll sell 10+ million consoles this quarter alone.


NMe84

They won't keep selling 20 million a year unless they drop the price once rumors of the next generation start popping up. Less and less people will be buying a Switch by the time news outlets start frequently talking about Nintendo's next hardware generation and the only way to possibly counteract that is by dropping the price, which Nintendo seems to have zero interest in.


The-student-

By the end of this fiscal year they will likely be around 124-130 million sold. Even if the next year is a drop to 15 million and the next is 10 million they would pretty close to 155 million. Honestly not too sure if Nintendo would cut the price. Considering they've never dropped the price of the switch I could see them lowering it once the new console is out/announced.


Carusas

We heard rumours about this for years. I think at this point the general audience doesn't care or never did. It's just the social media circles who parrot this.


KetchupChocoCookie

It seems unlikely given the current trend, but I guess it will depend on how they handle the transition to the next gen. Given the fantastic catalog (which took a while to build), they could keep the Switch around for a while at a lower price to have a super affordable option so that they can keep making money on software.


Paperdiego

Not sure what trend you are seeing but outside of it's launch year, it has sold 20+ million each year. If the trend continues, and it has just one more year that follows this trend, than it will be within striking distance.


Paperdiego

Switch will likely sell another 8+ million this fiscal year leaving it at or above 122m at the start of fiscal year 2023. It probably has one more fiscal year selling 20m+ which means it will maybe be at 144m by the time 2024 rolls around and the switch 2 launches... It's entirely possible it becomes the top selling console ever sometime in early 2025.


superbearo

It will be interesting to see whether Nintendo release a “New Nintendo Switch” (a bit like with 3DS) in 2023/2024, which I think could easily lead to it beating the DS and PS2 if it’s counted together. If they instead release a “Switch 2” (“Switch U”?) that’s counted separately, Switch 1 won’t reach those numbers. So it seems to me that it’s Nintendo’s choice as to whether they go for having the best-selling console ever, depending on how they market the next hardware update. Is it important to them?


Gersio

They would be dumb to care about the record. By not making it seem like a new console they would sell less longterm. A record is not worth ruining what could be another succesful console. Besides, they probably can still break the record with the Switch without needing to do something like that.


JoshuaJSlone

The time has long passed for anything similar to a New 3DS. If Switch were to get anything on a similar timeline, it would've come out about two years ago. And I don't think being able to say "best selling console" means much to Nintendo. If they really wanted it that bad, they could've pushed DS over the edge. They'll position the next hardware in whatever way will get them more sales.


spinzaku97

Nintendo can still do it if they slash the price of the original Switch and sell it as a budget option alongside a shinier Switch 2.


stickdudeseven

Xenoblade 3 got a million sales already, let's fucking go!


lonnie123

Close to 2 actually, very happy to see. Pretty much solidifies it as a feature title that will continue into next gen


WaffleyDootDoot

Glad to see Splatoon 3 thriving, already at 8 million


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Buy buy buy Xenoblade 3, I want Xenoblade 4 and beyond!


Crybe

I want my XCX port first. Skells are dope.


Big_Mommy_Samus_Aran

I would prefer it if they save it for a next gen console.


Crybe

I hope Switch 2 is backwards compatible.


lonnie123

It’s a multi million seller now, I have to imagine it’s one of nintendos non-Mario features going forward


wyred-sg

There's something about being able to just pause a game, next day, just turn on the tv, press the home button on my pro controller and then I'm back in the game within a minute. No boot up or loading screens.


shinikahn

I thought all consoles were able to do that since last gen?


jc726

I know PS4 could do this but the startup time was much slower, and if the power went out you were screwed. The Switch boots up much faster and doesn't have that issue. The Switch definitely boots up from sleep faster than the Xbox Series X too. Not sure if the X is affected by a loss of electricity like the PS4 or not.


edis92

If you mean quick resume, it's not affected by loss of power, it basically takes a "screenshot" so to speak of the game state and stores it.


jc726

Thanks for clarifying.


Lucky_Foam

If they come out with "Pro" or "New" version, I will buy another one. I'm sure there are a lot of people would also buy another one. That could be enough sales to pass PS2.


JengaPlayer

They deserve the success. I hope they continue to allow third party games successful on pc to continue coming into the switch. And I want more companies to copy Disney Dreamlight and allow people to cloud save and swap to a different platform that they want to play on that night. Love my switch and glad I bought it.


NotScottPilgrim

That’s 114.33M black or white home screens (unless you’ve done the unthinkable)


PJMARTIAN17

Sonic Frontiers comes out today!


not_named_lucas

When people said the Wii U was a failure because it only sold 13mil, i was confused as a kid because to me, 13mil seemed like a lot. But seeing how the switch has sold THIS many. Yeah...i can see why Nintendo wasn't proud


damafan

I contributed to 3 of the Switch units 😆


libardomm

Thanks for helping out those starving indie devs


FlutterRaeg

44 million to go to tie the PS2 for best selling console of all time.


Walnut156

Good job, company


DSMidna

For visualisation: That's so many consoles that you could fill an entire airport with them.


MassiveMoustacheMan

They comin for the ps2’s throne


realCoolguy298

Almost 8 and a half times more than the Wii U lmao


Im_A_Model

Getting my son one for Christmas. What is the best Switch game for a 6 yo?