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Norion said:
HebrewGamer said:

Correlation doesn't Equal causation. The demand was already there and there were supply shortages for everyone including Nintendo. If anything, if not for the pandemic Nintendo would already have this goofy sales record.

It wasn't already there, 2020 was up massively from 2019 with most months being up a ton YoY and while 2019 was up from 2018 it wasn't up by nearly as much and a lot of months it wasn't up by much. And the notion that the Switch would somehow have sold about an extra 20 million by now is absurd but I'm curious so I ask you to provide a year breakdown from 2020-2023 of what the Switch would have sold to already be at 160m or just under that by now.

Not sure what more you would need beyond the chip shortage which slowed the sales of every console and left consumers dealing with scalpers for a good portion of 2020 and into 2021. All life cycles have an arc. the rev up, the peak, and when sales slow down. during their peak they didn't have the supply for the demand due to external factors.