The Switch will be the first system since 2010 to sell 20 million in a Calendar year

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The_Liquid_Laser said:

curl-6 said:

What was DS's highest yearly tally? I found an article saying 31.18 million.

https://www.shacknews.com/article/63675/yearly-nintendo-earnings-hardware-sales

That is shipments during a fiscal year.  (In this case it's the FY ending March 21, 2009.)  VGChartz has the highest calendar year being the DS in 2008 with 29.7m.

Of course, there is 9 months of overlap between those two time periods.  There is also a lot of overlap between the current calendar year and the current FY.  We might be having a very similar discussion around the end of March next year about highest FY of all time.

Ah, gotcha, so no system has ever sold 30 million in a calendar year before.

Gosh I so hope Switch does, just cos it'd be so insane to see. I'm expecting more in the 26-28 million range cos of supply limitations, but you never know.