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DonFerrari said:
Mandalore76 said:

Who says this?

PS2 - 157m
PS4 - 108m
PS1 - 102m
PS3 -   87m
PSP -   81m
PSV -   16m

Azzanation is pretty adamant of it.

Well, there were 3 cases of it selling over 100m, and 3 cases of it not.  So, it's a silly argument.  

Mandalore76 said:

The Switch sold 1.8m consoles in a 3 week period.  That tends to exhaust supply especially when a pandemic is affecting the global supply chain.  They are completely sold out online at Gamestop, Best Buy, & Target.  There are used Nintendo Switches listed on Amazon & Walmart for about $200 over the $299 MSRP proving it is a hard commodity to come buy even for the people who would have otherwise bought one.  

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Yep it sold tremendously well, that is why I found the drop quite abrupt, like the inventory exhausted at once.

What's on the shelves will only last so long.  2 million units in the supply chain is usually a good amount at any given time.  The combination of the huge Animal Crossing release & people in lockdown having a ton of time on their hands, led to that stock blowing out in a 3 week span.  Combine that with difficulty resupplying due to the pandemic's effect on manufacturing in Asia and huge sales numbers had to crash once that stockpile had been exhausted.  I think there were warnings from analysts during the peak number sales weeks that the available stock was dwindling, so it wasn't that unexpected.