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:

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.

What are you talking about? ps5 shipped  6.3 million in a none holiday quarter. we are in different times. After covid everything changed. with all the money printing inflation is out of control and the wealthy  people got so rich that they don't even know what to with the money. when did switch sales really start exploding, yea after covid.

I am talking about how a system sells in it's seventh year.  Systems do not ship 3.91m units in a non-holiday quarter during their seventh year.  Normally this is because the market is near saturation and hardware can't sell anymore.  The Switch is not near saturation which is why it can ship so much in one quarter.

For example PS3 shipments were 2m units during the quarter that GTA5 released, which was during the PS3's seventh year.  GTA5 was definitely a big game, but it didn't move hardware like we just saw in this latest quarterly report from Nintendo.  Normally big games do not move 3.91m hardware this late into a console's life.  It shows that Switch hardware still has a significant amount of sales left before reaching saturation.