Switch Ships 129.53M as of June 2023, Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom at 18.51M

[The_Liquid_Laser]

zeldaring said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

Gotta say, 3.91M is a ton of hardware for a system in it's seventh year during a non-holiday quarter. Sure Zelda, a really big game, released, but there have been plenty of really big games to release in a system's seventh year and they don't sell hardware like this. Both FF7 Remake and TLOU2 released during the PS4's seventh year while COVID was going on, and PS4 did not sell hardware anywhere near this level.

Switch hardware has plenty of room to keep selling. I think it's going to sell about 17M this fiscal year. Also, there seems to be this narrative that Nintendo would want to replace the Switch soon. This report contradicts that narrative. This is the best first quarter of a FY that Nintendo has ever had. It even beats 2020's Animal Crossing + COVID first quarter. This doesn't look like a system in decline. Both Zelda and the Mario movie have given the Switch a steroid shot and there are 2 more Mario games coming this holiday.

I don't think Switch is going to have any problem selling over 155m. Expect it to become the top selling console of all time.

TOTK is on GTA level now, and last of us part 2 they really ruined the franchise and sales show this, it's basically selling near new sony ip levels. FF hasn't been a system seller long time.

TOTK is not going to sell like GTA5.  And yet the PS3 did not sell anywhere near like the Switch is selling now even though GTA5 released in its 7th year.  

Big games get released near the end of a systems life all the time, and yet other systems do not ever sell around 4M hardware in a non-holiday quarter.  That doesn't happen in a system's 7th year.  This sort of sales behavior is unprecedented.

Last edited by The_Liquid_Laser - on 05 August 2023