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Sephiran on 22 February 2025
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killer7 said:
firebush03 said:

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.

As stated above, also PS2 has a lot of "shovelware". And they do not have DL games and count it! Why is it forbidden for the Switch?! Including the fact that Sony even includes DLC (mappacks...) in their SW totals, even the PS3 (999,6 million) might be a bit overtracked by themselfes as game sales alone should be clearly below that number!

Its not forbidden for Nintendo to count digital only sales, its Nintendo that choose to remove digital only sales from their equation because Nintendo wants to be able to compare Switch software sales to previous generations of Nintendo consoles.