Nintendo quarterly results (Switch 4.8M for the quarter, 41.67 M total)

[Jumpin]

Dulfite said:

tak13 said:

Could you do the same, combining 3ds and wii u sales, please? 

I kind of thought the same, but that wouldn't reflect all the money they saved by not having two research and development teams, two sets of software teams, two sets of marketing teams, etc. They've saved a lot of money by consolidating down to one device, possibly offsetting the fact that they aren't selling as many Switch's as they would combined sales of home console and portable in most generations.

I don't think that's the right way to look at it given the Switch is a different kind of platform with different value and software sales patterns. I am not sure the average number of users per console, but it's a safe bet to consider a higher average number of users per Switch than per 3DS, which means higher software sales potential. We can back this by looking at the data, Nintendo sells way more games on Switch, and is bringing in significantly more money in the Switch era than in the Wii U/3DS era.

Last edited by Jumpin - on 02 November 2019