Nintendo quarterly sales update (To September 30th 2022) Switch 114.33 million

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mjk45 said:

curl-6 said:

#3 of all time in both software and hardware at the end of its run seems a fairly safe bet then.
In both cases, this is the quarter where it will move multiple ranks up the ladder.

Still incredible that this generation follows on from both their worst selling console and handheld. Not even going from the Gamecube to the Wii was this much of a turnaround.

Discounting the few loons who say that [insert console name here] will end up being the biggest selling console ever in the usual VGChartz poll and discussion that happens prior to each new consoles launch, it can be said that even those of us who were optimistic never saw this scale of success.

While the Switch was coming after the Wii U with it's poor sales, because it was essentially combining both of Nintendo's gaming sides into one most logical people saw it as a positive move that would easily surpass the Wii U.

What was undecided was exactly how much of a success the Switch would be when put up against the combined 3Ds and Wii U then questions like with the exception of the Wii, Nintendo home consoles hardware sales historically aren't that big so how much growth would have to come from the handheld side and if so would it have the software attachment ratio of a handheld or be more inline with the higher ratio of a home console, now these questions were answered in the positive when early in the piece it became obvious that the Switch's impact was far more than what you would expect from the sum of the parts it replaced, but even following all that early success that quickly evolved from talk about would the switch succeed into talk about the Switch matching or passing the Wii, who would have imagined that a few years later the scale of those covid year sales has meant that in 2022 its no longer about matching the Wii but the PS2.

Wii U and 3DS combined seemed like the low end for the Switch as it was going to combined the handheld and home console lineup of Nintendo games onto one platform.