Nintendo Quarterly Sales Update: Switch at 139.36m shipped

[Mar1217]

UnderwaterFunktown said:

Giving it a little though I'd say the DS is a very, very possible target to reach at this point as long as Nintendo doesn't decide to discontinue their most succesful system ever a few months after the successor. 10m feels like the absolute floor for this year so at most it would need 5m in 2025 and beyond. That seems exceedingly doable if they keep shipping it as long as there's demand.

PS2 is admittedly still tricky though and the Switch could very well end up in that dangerous 155-160m range, which, since we don't have exact confirmation on PS2 numbers, would inevitably result in endless arguments over which system really sold more.

For that debate, we'll most probably have the final tally on the Switch sales by the end of it's life. Kind of a bummer, Sony never really did the same in the end since it mostly lead to educated reasoning as to why the PS2 is currently the best selling console of all time. In the end, symbolically, the fact the Switch has the possibility to reach such a result is the biggest surprise of these last generations really.

Of course now, the discourse over it's successor will possibly get heated due to Nintendo's history with transition from successful hardware to other ones but the Switch legacy will live on nonetheless.