Software is really good largely likely due to the Switch having an older demographic with more disposable income to buy games with.

But the hardware number of 1.88 is on the soft/weak side. It's not terrible, but it's not great either, you see a 5 year old platform like the PS4 crossing 3 mill with ease in the same quarter.

Switch is more sensitive to its release schedule, Nintendo is gonna have to find ways to ensure new high profile content is constantly being released on the system. The whole "well we have Labo and that should carry hardware sales for the summer" type thinking isn't going to work with Switch.

Sorry man, there is no 2M+ rule.

The most we could get to is that in general we have about 1-2 months worth of sales between shipped and sold (which covers in transit and shelf). That number may be 500k or 3M depending on the time of the year, success of the platform, etc.

Switch during first 6 or so months the shipped was sold or about equal to it. PS4 had times with like 2.5+ or less than 1.5 depending if they oversupplied to secure a holiday or if they are preparing a slim revision.

And sincerely 1 or 2M in the shelf is only relevant discussing if one or another if we had two system very close in sales and we wanted to see who is ahead, besides that it is at most statistical margin of error.

They did. Sony shipped 3.2M (100k less than same Q last year.. so similar to Switch being down 100k, but very different reasons)

I'm pretty sure we could see people during NX time saying Switch would sell a looooooot. Sure we would see some doom predictions as well.

After first month though most Nintendo fans I would say where predicting very high sales.

I wouldnt say especially bad or good, they are ok/decent.

I never said there was a 2+ million rule, but ps4 does usually have 2+ million on store shelves. 500k is only if the system is suffering shortages. ps4 has been in the the 1.8-3 million range anytime we got data except for the first year where is did have supply issues.

Funny you only mention Switch being overtracked yet based on your logic PS4 is overtracked as well but i dont see you mentioning that anywhere.

It depends on when we're talking about I suppose.

It wasn't until the Switch was revealed that people began to get optimistic, and even then it was tempered by a rather mixed reception from critics. I certainly don't recall anyone thinking they'd be crossing the 20 million mark a year and a half in with only one holiday season.

ps4 seems to be having shortages though with the pro model, and even the slim, it could very will be over tracked, but it's not like we have any region data like we do with nintendo.

BotW, Kart, and Odyssey should be mandatory buys for most Switch owners. So it's nice to see that they're selling a copy of each for every other Switch.

It might be over now but a few retailers have been having deals where if you buy a Switch then you can get one of BotW, Kart, Odyssey or Splat 2 for half off.

Really nice to see Xenoblade selling so well, 1.42 million is really good for the kind of game it is. Wow at Tropical Freeze Switch being so close to outselling the Wii U version after only 2 months, I know the numbers are just shipments  but still.