Great start for the Switch and now with a series of games waiting to come out hopefully that will open up third parties eyes to the system which could very well end up beating the Wii-U total sales by the end of this year.

MK8 deluxe on the 28th is going to be huge for people who already didn't jump in, now satisfied that this system will be more successful than the Wii-U and next month on the 11th (I think) we get Minecraft to really test out just how much pins and needles it's possible for the human body to endure before there is actual switch related deaths on the toilet.

Damn, if that chart shows anything it's that launch sales don't mean anything, especially for Nintendo consoles.  The GC started stronger than the Wii, yet sold ~35M less than it.  The GBA was the strongest launch, pretty close to the Switch, yet sold ~10M less than the Wii and ~25M less than the DS.  The 3DS had the weakest launch, yet has done ~15M more than the Wii U, so far.

HOLY FUCK!

So North America+Japan is around 1.5 million, probably another 700-800k for Europe, Australia, etc. that would put first months sales around 2.2-2.3 million.

To be fair, the GBA was Nintendo's system with worst support/luck. Just 3 years after it launched, Nintendo released the DS. All things considered, GBA sold incredibly well in a very short amount time, and its legs were cut-off by the "third pillar".

The same? The thing is mostly sold out dude..... whatever they made was sold during march...... if they made more units they likely would have sold more units 

Well no, it doesn't matter who you target, the Holidays are a period where people are most readily parting with large sums of money.  Best way to put it is that in the Holidays, the hundreds of dollars are *going* to be spent and you are competing to be the thing they are spent on.  In March, people don't normally spend hundreds of dollars, so you are competing largely against their own apathy or defensiveness against spending.  In short, you are fighting to get them to actually spend the money in the first place.  Which is a significant difference and what makes this impressive as Nintendo convinced this many people to spend 360+ in a period when they normally avoid sizable spending.

Two words.... launch console.

How about this, the PS2 sold over 800k on launch day.... in japan.... in march.

The PS4 sold 1M consols on launch  day in NA.... then went on to sell under 50k the following week due to shortages.

Thats just how launch hardware goes.

Hope you don't forget. I wanna see the sweet charts, specially since yours have soooo much info.

First off, the Switch is also supply constrained, just fyi.  

Second, I was referring to the States specifically.  I don't know the exact spread of spending in Japan but in the states spending on stuff like games, consoles, etc is absurdly heavily skewed towards the Holidays.  Selling 906k in March in the States (and being aupply constrained meaning it could have sold more) is nothing to sneeze at.  Also, the fact PS2 did that does not make what the Switch did not impressive both due to what I just said and due to the fact that the two - Switch being impressive and the PS2 being impressive - not mutually exclusive.  Especially since the PS2 is the best selling console ever.