| RolStoppable said: UPDATE: November 5th, 2021 I noticed that I forgot to update this thread three months ago, so to start with, here are the figures as of June 30th: Switch family - 89.04m (4.45m this quarter) As usual, there were no adjustments to Nintendo's forecasts after the first fiscal quarter, so I'll move right on to the following quarter that concluded on September 30th: Switch family - 92.87m (3.83m this quarter) Nintendo chose to add the very first shipment of the new Switch OLED - a modest upgrade, not the strongly rumored Switch "Pro"-like device - towards the regular Switch SKU, but I hope they'll break it down in future financial reports. Furthermore, Nintendo revised their hardware forecast down to 24m from previously 25.5m due to semiconductor shortages, but at the same time issued an upwards revision for software, up to 200m from previously 190m. Now we are only one quarter away from seeing Switch surpass the 100m milestone. It took Switch exactly 20 fiscal quarters - or five years - to achieve this feat which makes Michael Pachter's wisdom all the more funny in hindsight as Switch was indeed selling at a pace of 20m units a year: https://gametransfers.com/micheal-patcher-nintendo-switch-wont-be-as-successful-as-wii/ 100 million has always been an important number. Not only because Kimishima (Nintendo's CEO at the time) said before Switch's launch that the platform is aimed to sell as much as the Wii, but also because it was widely perceived as an absolutely lunatic figure on gaming forums. It's also what this thread was about in the first place, that there are many more good reasons for Switch to sell 100m+ then there are for it to sell less than that. While this thread's next update will be a conclusion to that part, it won't mean that the tale will end there. The next chapter is about watching just how far Switch can go. Switch is already in seventh place on the all-time list of best-selling consoles and will move into fifth place with the next update. At that point only the PS4, GB/GBC, DS and PS2 will be left to beat, and while the former two will be taken care of within 2022, it's a very long road to get within striking distance of the latter two. |
Taking into account the awesome game lineup for 2022 (Zelda BOTW2, Bayonetta 3, Splatoon 3, Kyrby, Pokemon Arceus and other games), do you think it's possible to see yearly numbers like the ones from 2020/21??
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