Global Sales Ranking - Week 99

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kenjab said:

Megiddo said:

It blows my mind that the Switch has a lower STR at this point than the Wii U. Like, what? Even if all Switch owners only bought Zelda, MK8, Splatoon 2, and Odyssey, that would put it higher than the Wii U.

This is one way that the Switch is living up to its hybrid label.  Notice that the portable consoles all have much lower STR than the home consoles, but that the Switch fits in right in between those groups.  I'm guessing there are some families out there who have more than one Switch but only buy the games once (likely the reason for the low STR on the portable systems), though at $300 per unit it's probably not many.  I'd also guess that the Switch might have a higher than normal number of digital sales?

It's also possible that software is undertracked, though corrections had been made.

Nintendo announced 69M games sold, and precised this only includes games that are also available in stores, meaning eShop-only titles are not counted there. At March 31 VGC now has 51M, and had been corrected upwards after the results were out.

This does imply that over one quarter of the games is sold digitally, which could be too much.