The Road to 160m+ for Nintendo Switch

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Norion said:

Soundwave said:

The only point in its favor is it may have higher sales in like years 11, 12, 13, lol. 

The Switch is ahead of the PS2 every year its been available and would cross 160 million if Nintendo allowed it to sell long enough to do so. I don't think there is much of an argument to even be made against that. 

The PS2 had like 4 price cuts, let the Switch have even 1 and let it sell for the same amount of time and it would go past 170 million. 

The only thing keeping the PS2 in this "race" is that Nintendo wants to sell Switch 2 systems more than they want this record. Has nothing to do with the relative popularity of the systems though. 

Well no compared to the Switch there's also the fact that the PS2 didn't get a big boost from a major pandemic and that gaming itself was a lot less popular decades ago as I mentioned so while total popularity isn't as high it was more popular among gamers at the game which counts for at least something. The NES's total of just under 62m isn't anything special nowadays but it was absolutely incredible for the time like how there's an argument that the PS1's total is more impressive than the PS4's considering the different circumstances.

Again I do mostly agree since the Switch and especially the DS getting to 150m as quickly as they did compared to the PS2 is a big deal so would pick the DS as the most impressive in terms of hardware sales but would likely give it to the Switch when including software. I just don't think it's as lopsided as you're making it out to be when taking every factor into account.

It's no wonder these 3 are the three most sold consoles ever. Each one has something that we can say that they were the best.