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

[firebush03]

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!

I’m referring more toward the shovelware that sells for free (or less than $5). Before digital shops, selling at zero cost was unheard of, for the obv reason that you can’t sell games for free at physical retailers without simply just losing money.