Alternate history: Switch a generation earlier

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padib said:

RolStoppable said:

At least 1.8 billion. There have been a lot of indie success stories on Switch and there are thousands of digital-only games.

DSiWare and WiiWare had very few quality games and neither service offered any kinds of discounts on games, so I estimate combined sales to be below 25 million units. This puts total DS and Wii software at ~1.9 billion.

There is still a flaw to your analysis. A lot of people who did not buy switch games bought Wii and DS games. These people bought ganes like Wii Fit, Nintendogs and brain age, games which sold half or a third as much on Switch. I will try to crunch numbers but it should be easy to calculate a few 100s of millions of missed sales.

For example, just brain age series goes like this:

Not sure what exactly that is proof of, various franchises and even genres see growth and decline for various factors. Look at Tony Hawk for example, at its peak it was selling like 8 million every year, fast forward a few years and it struggled to sell 2 million.