Nintendo Quarterly Sales Update: Switch at 139.36m shipped

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UnderwaterFunktown said:

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On the flipside of those predictions though were all the equally off-base claims that it underperformed as soon as the charts rolled in.

It had been 11 years since the last time a new 2D Mario came out, people simply forgot that they sell through long legs rather than huge openings.

This is true but that's also why I didn't/don't expect that big lifetime sales for Wonder because it's simply launching too late to get the full value of that, not counting a potential Deluxe edition on the next system. Unlikely as it was it needed a huge opening if it was to reach those massive 30m+ numbers that many were predicting. It's pretty damn safe to say at this point that won't happen, but it should be able to break into the Top 10 which is still something.

It depends what one's definition of "big lifetime sales" is.

Wonder is likely to continue selling for a long time; it will take years after the release of the successor for most Switch owners to upgrade, and many Nintendo games keep on selling well after their system is replaced.