Switch Ships 141.32 Million Units as of March 2024

[Norion]

HebrewGamer said:

Norion said:

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.  

Scalping really wasn't much of a thing at all for the Switch those years and the shortages didn't impact it much since it was old tech by the time the shortages began. It went from selling about 19m in 2019 to about 28m the following year so the pandemic actually helped Nintendo since video game sales exploded in 2020 but Sony and Microsoft weren't able to capitalize on it hardware wise due to it being bad timing for their consoles. Sales of the PS4 and Xbox One did get a big boost at first but it was short lived since they were too busy getting ready for launching the new consoles to supply enough of the old ones to fulfill the sudden huge increase in demand for long.