archbrix on 26 March 2024
There's no realistic scenario where Switch doesn't pass the DS at this point. It could do it by March 31, 2025 but I think it will finish the fiscal year just below the handheld's total. In any case, 151m+ (shipped) is on lock by then, coming off of a 10m+ year (probably higher on both counts).
And I don't buy the idea of Nintendo suddenly killing off the Switch next year; the "$299 or less" sales demographic is something Nintendo is not going to abandon, at least until a "Lite" model of Switch 2 arrives, and the Switch legging it out past the PS2's total would not be difficult at that point.
I'm now confident in saying it's much more likely that the Switch beats the PS2 (reaches 160m) than it doesn't.
