Nintendo Quarterly Sales Update: Switch at 139.36m shipped

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Zippy6 said:

curl-6 said:

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.

This late in it's life even Nintendo titles are front-loaded. I mean ToTK is already selling the same this quarter as Mario Odyssey. Sales of evergreen titles are tied to hardware sales. New people get the system and they pick up the evergreens. Do you have examples of Nintendo games that kept selling well after hardware sales stopped? I wanted to look at the IR Data for units sold on Nintendo's site but internet wayback is only going back to 2017 for me, not sure if the url changed or something cause I've used it before to get to much older data.

I think I remember that, years ago, some reports kept showing MKWii selling some good numbers way after Wii production was shut down. But I'm saying this by memory, just so that I don't forget to reply. If I stop to research it, I sometimes get entrenched in other stuff I find interesting along the way and forget to come back. :)