The Road to 160m+ for Nintendo Switch

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haxxiy said:

I wonder how many Switches are replacements. Even lowballing hardware failure rates, you get around a tenth of current Switch sales being replacements if half of the consumers are willing to purchase it again (which seems reasonable in the absence of market alternatives or a successor).

How much would poor handling at the hands of children influence these numbers is anyone's guess, although the number of original Switches should be at least 100m because otherwise MK8 would have implausibly high attachment rates.

 The console makers have in the past  put out percentage figures for returns/ faulty hardware, but how they compare across the home and portable console space I  don't know and while it would be interesting if someone could find those figures, at the end of the day it's just one of many factors that make up the sales numbers   and isn't something that's just inherent to just the Switch.