Nintendo quarterly sales update (To 31st March 2021) Switch 84.59m

[mjk45]

Jumpin said:

GProgrammer said:

It says 11 titles btw, but those numbers are obviously way out of date and very incomplete, where are all the COD's and Fifa's, you know those titles that each years are the best sellers?

I do agree that the ratio of the 10 million sellers will most likely be higher on the switch, but when the ps4 has sold nearly 3x as much software to claim the switch has more 10 million sellers is laughable, just look at Jumpinfs wiki list and then add all the titles that they didnt have the data to include

Switch software 587 millions sold

PS4 software 1562 millions sold

The tie at 10th place threw me off. So yeah, 11 games according to that list.

I also agree the list is suspicious on closer examination. Several of those 10+ million sellers have unreliable sources. So there is the chance that there are actually fewer than what's listed. So if we knock off the games, it lowers the number to 5 games.

Yes, I know PS4 sold 1.5 billion+ software. My post already addressed why this is irrelevant. But it seems you accidentally cut that part out. So let me repost it here: "It doesn't matter if more games have sold on PS4 than Switch, Switch has Nintendo as a publisher. PS2 had over 1.5 billion games sold on it, only three of those sold above 10 million." That also adds to my doubt that PS4 had more than 5 games above 10 million, as Playstation platforms aren't known for having many 10m+ games, despite generally having high total sales.

I mean, if you have sources that say otherwise, by all means post them.

The use of the PS2 to judge the likelihood of the number of PS4 or other later consoles meeting a 10 mill sales threshold is a poor choice. historical context is important because just like the world industry doesn't remain stagnant and the sales of individual games inclusive of whether or not they meet the arbitrary threshold of 10 million aren't locked into some unalterable pattern that's tied to the total number of games sold.

What we do know is sales for the top selling titles have grown on PS4 1st party sales especially and those games when compared to PS3 games sitting at or near a similar ladder position have quite often  sales 2 or 3 times the level and in some case more and that is a far better indicator of what direction any data not included would go. 

Last edited by mjk45 - on 10 May 2021