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curl-6 on 26 December 2020
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Bofferbrauer2 said:
curl-6 said:

I didn't realize Switch was already second only to DS as far as Nintendo systems in ROTW.

Goes to show I suppose that while Nintendo does have room to improve in ROTW compared to their strength in Japan and America, they are already making said improvement compared to their past systems.

It also shows how much the RoW sales are increasing over the years, how little importance they had in terms of sales before the PS2 and how those mostly only knew the Playstations until shortly.

The PS2 is leading by far in RoW (25.6M, the only console above 20M so far in RoW) because it released there dirt cheap when the others already had the PS3 for a while. Next is the PS4, which built upon the success of the PS2, followed by the PSP and PS3; only after the PS3 comes the DS. Those 4 Playstation consoles sold more in RoW than all the others combined before the Switch arrived, and still are about the same as the the consoles combined when the Switch is included so far. But come next year, the Playstation phalanx will be broken, and it looks like China could be pushing Nintendos hybrid console to PS2 levels when all is said and done.

If Nintendo can get even close to PS2 numbers in ROTW that would be a phenomenal breakthrough for Nintendo, as that's typically been an area where they haven't thrived.

I mean, that even the PS3 did better than the DS in there says it all, ROTW has been a secret weapon of Sony for a long time, if Nintendo can tap into that to anywhere near the same degree Switch might actually have a shot at DS/PS2 type numbers globally lifetime.