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Tober on 06 August 2026
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Zippy6 said:
ShadowLink93 said:

Hardware is amazing but software is a concern, just 9.46 million sold this quarter compared to 16.41 million for Switch 1 in it's equivalent quarter. After five quarters Switch 2 totals 58.17 million games sold compared to 68.97 million for Switch 1. The Switch 1 had a much lower installbase at this stage but was averaging 3.88 games per console (68.97 divided by 17.79) versus 2.45 games per console for Switch 2 (58.17 divided by 23.68). These $70 and $80 Nintendo games aren't selling like the evergreens on Switch 1, in fact the legs of these games are really poor by Nintendo's standards.

Not to mention the much stronger third party support SW2 has had compared to early SW1 you'd think would be helping software sales comparisons too. I was baffled when they first forecast only 60m software sales this fiscal year and I'm still baffled now.

As far as I know Nintendo still doesn't count 'download only' titles in their software sales. Perhaps Switch2 got a lot of games' sales where no physical exists? But then the same can be said of Switch1, eventhough I remember a lot of indy titles got a physical initially on Switch1.

Example: HollowKnight & Silksong do not have a physical release yet on Switch2 (Oct 18th), where the original Hollowknight on Switch had from the beginning.

Example2: Hades2 doesn't have a physical release yet (November 20th)

I do not know if Nintendo would count digital sales of those if the physical is not there yet and where the physical was announced quite a bit after launch.