NPD: Switch US retail SW on pace to be biggest Nintendo launch year on record

[StarDoor]

AngryLittleAlchemist said:

StarDoor said:

Total sales in launch calendar year:
Nintendo 64 (September 1996): 1,771,791
Game Boy Advance (June 2001): 4,746,422
GameCube (November 2001): 1,236,059
Nintendo DS (November 2004): 1,200,000
Wii (November 2006): 1,080,000
Nintendo 3DS (March 2011): 4,112,000
Wii U (November 2012):  890,000

So they're just saying it will sell more units per year than other hardware? That's pretty obvious...

They're saying it'll sell more software than any of these consoles, not hardware. It's uncertain if Switch hardware will sell more than 3DS's 2011, and there's no way Switch will sell more than GBA's 2001.

Though it's still obvious that Switch will sell more software, since Switch has a home-console attach rate and the only consoles that are competitive in terms of HW in the first calendar year are handhelds with much lower attach rates.