Most consoles don’t even reach year 7 of their respective lifespans. What’s just as remarkable is that the Switch had a higher peak than the PS2, even almost selling 30 million units in the fiscal year of 2021. Other consoles with as big fiscal year sales of 25-30 million units would drop drastically in later years like the Wii. The DS is the closest comparison (with an even higher peak) and it just fell several million short of the PS2 in the end. Switch got the high peak and then the PS2 legs. Not to mention an incredible stranglehold of Japan that can’t be understated at this point, especially when there are no signs of Nintendo losing such grip anytime soon. So even as the rest of the world ends up buying Switch units less this year as they wait for the Switch 2, Japan has picked up some of the slack both in hardware and software.
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