The Road to 160m+ for Nintendo Switch

[CourageTCD]

Slownenberg said:

curl-6 said:

Yeah if the Switch has a significant future beyond its replacement, it's as a budget product to ensure kids from low income families are still growing up with Nintendo's IPs even if their parents can't afford a Switch 2.

To that end, I expect the OLED will get the axe in relatively short order, (as the premium slot will be filled by the successor) while the Lite, maybe the base, and maybe a new Wii Mini/New 2DS type model are kept around until the Switch 2 Lite can arrive to fill that lower priced niche.

Side question: are the vgchartz Switch numbers even updating? lol. I feel like it's been at 142m forever, despite Switch selling over half a million a month. Weren't Nintendo's numbers 143+ at the mid-year point? I know Nintendo releases shipment numbers and not sell-through in the quarterly reports, but still why is vgchartz estimate still at 142? Seems like through August it should at least be at 143m, I'd guess real-time sales are probably more like 144m by now. Maybe I'm crazy, just feels like vgchartz has barely moved the lifetime numbers for the past like half year.

You have this impression because the Switch turned 142.04M at the end of July and, because data for August sales numbers for the Americas got delayed so many times, having been revealed only last week, the Switch's sales got stuck at around 142.55M (considering only Japan and Europe's numbers for August). VGChartz couldn't even update the sales numbers with Japan's and Europe's sales numbers for September because America's numbers for August hadn't been revealed yet

So basicly, you are seeing the Switch sales numbers at ~142M since the end of July until now. But America's sales numbers for September won't be delayed, we hope, so we will be able to see the Swtich turn 143M with America's, Europe's and Japan's numbers very soon

Last edited by CourageTCD - on 20 October 2024