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Again, all of this data is more and more pointing to the Pandemic hurting more than helping the Switch at this point. We will never know exactly how successful the combination of ACNH+Switch could have been if it wasn't for supply constraints. Imagine how much better the weekly sales would be if everyone that wanted one worldwide was able to find one on store shelves. This notion that the Pandemic is why the Switch is seeing so much success is even further off base when we look at the evergreen title sales. If people were just buying it to kill some time with ACNH then we would have seen little to no growth across their other titles, which simply isn't true. As a matter of fact, software sales growth has outpaced hardware sales growth, people are buying Switches because of the amazing games.
I mean, look at the sales totals of BotW last quarter. It was the 5th best selling 1st party software, outpacing SSBU and Pokemon. You can point to that first major spike in March 2020 being caused by the Pandemic, but looking at the software that is being sold, it's not just casuals that are gobbling up Switches. Word of mouth has spread about the amazing games only available on the Nintendo Switch.
I can't wait to see what the sales are going to look like for this last quarter with the Mario and Monster Hunter Switch models and 3D World and Monster Hunter releasing.
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