Switch Sales Top 101M, PS5 Tops 17M - Global Hardware Dec 19 to 25

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Dulfite said:

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Most of that population growth is in parts of the world where Nintendo doesn't have much reach though, like poor developing nations.

Not saying the Switch doesn't have an advantage, but I think most of the difference comes from it being able to tap into the portable market rather than demographic changes in the world's population.

The general growth was only a portion of what I said. The bigger factor is a percentage of our population is dying that never played video games or will ever and are being replaced by babies that will grow up into kids that play games in some form. That trend will continue for the next 30-40 years until every generation alive will have played video games at some point.

In most of the developed world, which makes up the vast majority of Nintendo's sales base, people have been living longer and having fewer children for some time now, so we have an ageing population, somewhat reducing the trend you refer to as those elderly are not dying as soon as they used to while fewer young people are coming in.

Again, that's not to say the Switch doesn't have an advantage, I just don't think it's primarily due to population growth.