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firebush03 on 20 February 2025
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killer7 said:
Tober said:

Page 23 of Nintendo's latest update. https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2025/250204_3e.pdf

[Notes] ・Software sales units include both packaged and downloadable versions of software, and do not
include download-only software or add-on content.
・Actual software sales units include the quantity bundled with hardware or other products.
・Forecasted software sales units includes software bundled with other products during the nine
months ended December 31, 2024 but does not included software to be bundled with other
products January 1, 2025 onwards

What? They do not include download- only software?! So indies (most of them are DL only) are not included? Then the Switch must be clearly above 1,5 billion by now!! Maybe even above PS2's software total!?!?

Including digital only sales, NSW would almost certainly be above PS2…but there’s a reason (i believe) why Nintendo chooses not to include it in their software sales reports, and why Sony shouldn’t be including it in their own: Shovelware apps releasing at next-to-no-cost inflate the software figures to comical levels. It’s a useless metric to say that NSW has >2bil software sales if nearly 1bil coming from eShop shovelware sold for cheap.