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Pyro as Bill said:

What we know is that full body motion control isn't suited to Switch Lite or the hybrid in handheld mode.

Switch hybrid sold 3m in Japan in the same timeframe that RFA sold 1.5m. Either half of those Switch hybrid sales were due to RFA or some/most of the cazulz were already there. We can also safely assume that there are cazulz that aren't interested in RFA.

RFA currently has a 16% attach ratio to the hybrid Switch in Japan despite stock issues, higher price (compared to Wii-Wii Fit) and apparent lack of console accessibility.

ARMS was above 2m and 1,2 Switch was above 3m before RFA released so Nintendo fans have probably spent as much money on 12S and ARMS as they did on Wii Play and Wii Boxing.

Ubisoft didn't bother with Just Dance 2020 on Wii-U but did make it their last game for Wii most likely because it took 10years for a system to come along that could eat into the Wii versions sales.

Switch+RFA was hitting Ebay prices not seen since Wii+Wii Fit during the pre-pandemic holidays.

Seems ludicrous to credit FIFA, Skyrim and Witcher fans when ARMS, 12S, 51CHG and RFA easily outsell them and there are still 130m DS and 75m Wii owners out there who didn't buy Brain Training or Wii Fit.

I'm not saying the uber-cazul Just Dance, Wii Fit, Mario Kart wheel users are responsible for Switch's success just that a significant portion of them are back buying their first system since Wii.
The main driver of Switch sales is the returning Nintendo casual-core/lapsed gamer crowd, some of whom were uber-cazulz during the Wii/DS days but have since crossed the bridge Nintendo built for them.

Wii Play sold 28 million copies.  But I think that even when people mention the fact that it came bundled with a Wiimote, it often gets forgotten that there was a huge Wiimote shortage at the time.  Consequently, a great many people bought Wii Play solely to add an additional Wiimote to their Wii for all the other couch multiplayer games they already had.  I was one of those people.  I remember struggling to find any game stores in my area that had individual Wiimotes in stock at the time, and having to buy Wii Play just to get an additional controller into my living room.  I remember playing through Wii Play with friends just once and then never having the desire to pop it in again.  It did not have the fun and addictive quality of Wii Sports.  I also remember a video game magazine at the time, that covered top selling games of the month in each issue, being very noticeably irked at having to include Wii Play in the Top 10 for as many consecutive weeks as it did.