Sales Update April 2021 approaches: Thoughts and Guesses

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RolStoppable said:

Given how well sell-through numbers have held up in early 2021, it's safe to expect that Nintendo will fly past their projected hardware shipments for Q4 (~2.5m) by a significant margin. The total for the fiscal year should be 29-30m, making it one of the biggest years ever for any console (only beat by the DS's peak). The forecast for the next fiscal year will most likely be on the conservative side again, so around 25m, a figure that Nintendo can beat again.

LTD first party game sales will approach 300m units with the upcoming fiscal report, so it's looking very good for Switch to sell 500m+ first party games during its lifetime. Consequently, Switch becoming the first Nintendo console with total software sales above one billion units seems to be a given.

It's a hybrid in more senses of the word than its functionality. It's selling handheld numbers of hardware and home console numbers of software. And is looking to break records in both arenas.