Ask and you shall receive.

Of course, we can clearly see that launch sales do not correlate one bit with longer-term sales. The Switch may have had a solid launch, but it needs to have a healthy baseline going forward. 700k total in Q2 would be a good goal for it.

Crazy, just crazy. I totally underestimate how well it would perform.

Man, the PS1 really had the upward trajectory!

Forget the PS1, The Best selling Console in history had the 2nd worse launch number ever

Ask and you shall receive.

Of course, we can clearly see that launch sales do not correlate one bit with longer-term sales. The Switch may have had a solid launch, but it needs to have a healthy baseline going forward. 700k total in Q2 would be a good goal for it.

You ain't kidding. It improved massively in the U.S. once FFVII was released:

That was Wii U-level sales prior to its first price cut, and GameCube levels after that, then September 1997 comes along and *BOOM!*, the thing takes off like a rocket and precedes to flatten the N64, which was outpacing it in the year prior and was at the time the fastest-selling home console ever in the U.S. (and to date only the PS4, XBO, and PS2 had better sales in their first 12 months than the N64 did).

Yeah, the PS2 had a really slow start. The 360, PS3, and Wii had similar stock issues affecting them, as they all had worse launches than their predecessors. That's why launch sales are almost never indicative of future performance. Compare that graph I posted above to this one:

Looks a lot different, doesn't it? And the final lifetime tallies all look different as well. The 360 eventually passed the Wii in the U.S. to become the #2 best-selling home console ever in the U.S. The PS1 and PS3 improved their rankings as well. The N64 dropped down to #7, and the GC and Xbox dropped as well.