Nintendo quarterly sales update (Switch 61.44m, Animal Crossing 22.4m)

[farlaff]

RolStoppable said:

farlaff said:
This has nothing to do with the Switch, which is of course doing amazing, but the software/hardware attach rate on the WiiU was actually pretty good now that I saw it:

Wii U
Hardware: 13.56 million units
Software: 103.21 million units

Every other poor WiiU owner like myself got close to having 10 games more or less. I would honestly think that number to be higher on Switch by now considering the people that I know. Most have a loooooot of games for it, and I am one of those lol. Unless I failed to see something (and, of course, 13,5 mil hardware makes it obviously a way different situation than 62 mil like the Switch), the hybrid could be past 500mil SW with a similar rate. Maybe a large portion of Switch owners buy it for AC, MK and Smash/Pokemon (or some other game) only?

That's a tie ratio of 7.61, so not really close to 10. Switch is at 6.62 right now.

But this is comparing an as good as final tie ratio (only miniscule amounts of Wii U software still sell) to a still developing tie ratio. Tie ratios grow over time which is something you can view in my spreadsheet (purple box, left column). People buy the console with 1-3 games, then it takes a while until they buy another game, and so on and so forth. Lots of new owners means that there are millions of people who prevent faster growth of the tie ratio, but it keeps growing nevertheless, so there's no real disadvantage in the long run.

Tie ratios tend to grow by about 1 game per year, so Switch will match and then exceed the Wii U's tie ratio soon enough.

Very nice comment, thanks! I was thinking something around those lines and I totally agree that there is no long term disadvantage. I was just actually impressed that the WiiU managed to push those SW numbers, that being the main reason I posted.

Also: "(only miniscule amounts of Wii U software still sell)". I contributed to that some months ago because I bought Wii Fit U digital! XD