Nintendo Quarterly Sales Update: Switch at 150.86m shipped, Mario Party Jamboree at 6.17m

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firebush03 said:

killer7 said:

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.

Low cost shovelware is a factor, but even if you rule all that stuff out, Switch should still be above PS2 just on the basis of "legit" releases as even without them its quite close.

PS2 also had quite a lot of shovelware in its own right, even without a digital store.