Global Hardware June 20-26 - Switch Sells 376K, PS5 Sells 226K, XS Sells 136K

[The_Liquid_Laser]

Dulfite said:

Mandalore76 said:

100% true.  The Wii came within a million units of passing the original Playstation in lifetime sales, but Nintendo didn't make any real effort to push the Wii over the top.

Yep. They clearly thought they had a lot more to gain profit-wise by pushing Wii U and 3ds. If Nintendo really cared about generation records (which are meaningless compared to profits for a public traded company), then Wii would have probably sold at least 10-15 million more copies. They will absolutely abandon the Switch the moment they think they can make more profit off a new device, even if it is close to passing up another system lifetime. You don't get to their stability level by focusing on numbers that excite .01% of gamers that care about said numbers, but you do get to that stability by focusing on profits, profits, profits. Obviously the Wii U bombed, but the 3ds made up for it (after its first year), but generally speaking this strategy has worked for Nintendo.

I think this sort of thing might be cultural (Japanese company vs. American company).  If an American company can set some kind of record, then they will do it, even if it really is mostly for marketing purposes.  For example, with Avengers Endgame it was struggling to get past Avatar in total box office, so they released another version with some half-assed post credit stuff.  That was just enough to get another good week at the box office and put them over the top.  Then they could advertise it's "the best selling movie of all time" in time for the DVD release.  They made an effort to be the best selling movie of all time, but the motivation was largely marketing driven.

Perhaps these kinds of announcements are not the sort of things Japanese companies go for?  I don't know.  I know American companies like to make these kinds of announcements though.

yo33331 said:

Okay there is no point in arguing you are here only nintendo fans and all of you are defending the switch obviously ..
I am not bitching switch's fate or something like that and I haven't been one from those who said year after year the switch will fall of a cliff.
I am just saying that In my opinion 2020/2021 is the peak period for the system and the 2022 is starting it's downfall. And I think that because of several factors (the age of the system, the saturation point, the new consoles with full stock for next year, and the price ) Switch will drop to around 15M units. This is my prediction, that's it. We will see the answer of this by next year. There is no point in arguing now. If it is so special and so home and handheld then it have to do Wii + DS numbers which is equal to 255M. Come on I dear you. Cuz if many people buy it for home use and many other for handheld it have to at least beat the DS numbers right ? It won't even manage to do that let alone 255M.

When you say things like "Switch will only sell 15M in 2022.  That will be it's downfall", then that is the same as saying "Switch sales are about to fall off of a cliff".

Last edited by The_Liquid_Laser - on 13 July 2021