| IcaroRibeiro said: It's interesting to see Switch Userbase as 127 million. That means there is a significant rate for double ownership of 15% |
That's not what this means. All it means is that 127 million users (who have a Nintendo account and the console connected to the internet) played at least one game during the past twelve months, but you can't tell how many different consoles this accounts for, because multiple users can have played on the same console. Nintendo cannot obtain such data from consoles that aren't connected to the internet.
Double ownership isn't the only explanation for the difference between users and total amount of consoles sold, because millions of consoles don't get used eventually anymore. Plus the aforementioned possibility of offline consoles.
That's why this particular statistic doesn't tell us all that much, other than interest in Switch remaining high. But we can reach this same conclusion of maintained interest by ongoing hardware and software shipments, and with much higher clarity at that.
Legend11 correctly predicted that GTA IV will outsell Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I was wrong.
