The Switch is killing it! ABsilutly incredible Mario numbers, and well deserved. Easily one of my GOTY's and the best 3D Mario I have played since Galaxy.

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/hard_soft/index.html

Nintendo themselves. Not sure what the issue is here.

It really isn't that unlikely. They sold 1.5 million in America alone for December.

Sold is used to refer to both shipped and sold to consumers, but more commonly it refers to shipped in business.

Shipped is sold to retailer. It cannot be assumed that it is sold through unless explicitly stated

 The numbers in Nintendo's site have always been shipped for hardware and shipped+digital for software.

The 14.86m figure is consolidated sales, meaning sales for all regions, and I see no evidence that it is "sold through"

I see no evidence to prove it is shipped either.

apart from ninendo’s own statement saying sold? You can argue all you want but this site adjusted the figures three months ago to match the quarterly report so obviously it’s correct. It’s undertracked. Simple as that.

Definitely reads like shipped to me but if Nintendo really has analysed all retail sales from around the world to give a sold through number what is the actual number shipped, even higher?

Fantastic news whatever it means the greatest game developer continues with rude health and has the money to plough into future gaming hardware and software.

Sadly at this rate my hope for a cheaper Switch at retail is less likely, they really don't need to reduce the price for commercial reasons although I'm sure there will be a hardware revision this year but it seems less likely they will have to lower the price of it. Probably just update it to use a better fabrication process and an actual custom Tegra chipset rather than the off the shelf chip of the current model.

The evidence is that Nintendo almost always report shipped, and when they don't such as the 10m figure they explicitly state sold through to consumers. The "sales" in their financial reports are shipped figuree, as they always have been. They're not suddenly going to change their financial reports to sold-through after decades with no indication that is what they're talking about.

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/hard_soft/index.html

This is from ninendo. Says sales at the top so looks sold to me.