Nintendo Quarterly Sales Update: Switch at 139.36m shipped

[Mar1217]

curl-6 said:

RolStoppable said:

2024 is set to be another 10m+ year for hardware sales and 100m+ units in software sales shouldn't be a problem either, so this still sounds like a doom fantasy rather an analysis of the facts at hand. This shows even moreso in your self-contradictory response: "Consistent problem with Nintendo's [home] consoles, but look, Switch also succeeded the 3DS, [the handheld line where Nintendo hasn't had these same problems]."

zorg1000 said:

But Switch in 2024 is much healthier than 3DS in 2016 so that still doesn’t make any sense.

3DS shipments calendar year 2016

hardware-7.36 million, software-56.43 million

Switch shipments calendar year 2024 (estimate)

hardware-10+ million, software-100+ million

I was referring to first party support. It's once again looking like Nintendo has more or less left the building 12+ months before new hardware arrives, just as they did with the N64, Gamecube, Wii, and Wii U. 

It would've been better for both Nintendo and their audience if they'd planned this better to avoid such a drought.

Yet so far, we've just heard them talking first half release for the year. There's a good possibility we'll a few announcements for scheduled for the second half.

Now, will those projects interest us or be the bigger projects that some wishes for ? Don't know. 

But assumption of a lack of software for any given year of the Switch life have mostly been premature since Nintendo decided to keep their cards closer to their chest.