Hard telling since Nintendo doesn't give sold to consumers information. Could be due to planning another strong holiday quarter with all the big releases and ignoring the other quarters, so shipments overall will be lax until the boom.

It was more of a reference back to the very soft first quarter of the financial year, when they shipped less than 2 million units - and the fact Nintendo didn't release any significant system sellers between Super Mario Odyssey and Super Mario Party. With New Super Mario Bros U DX in January and Mario Maker 2 in June following on from the Oct/Nov/Dec releases of Mario Party, Pokemon and Smash, I'd say this financial year certainly looks more balanced than last.

Good numbers, specially on SW.
But seems like the "pessimistic" won, they didn't hit the target for FY18 and their forecast for this year is 18M, so very far from 20-25M some were expecting here. At least 18M I believe is easily achievable by them, but doesn't seem like they'll pass PS4 at the end of cycle.

Under 17.

Thought it’s be at 18. Obviously it’s still doing good, but it’s no Wii or DS. Software is great! Mario Odyssey, Smash, Mario Kart, Zelda, some of the new releases, all excellent. Never thought I’d see the day a Zelda game would cruise by 12m. It could reach 15m when all is said and done. And then there’s the WiiU version on top of that. Pokemon Let’s Go doesn’t seem to have long legs though.

Possibly.

I think we'll know more after E3 to make some meaningful predictions ourselves (Pokemon, AC, and so on probably get release dates by or around then, plus maybe some yet unannounced games). But unless the sales are way up by end of September, I don't think they would augment the target by then already.

It was always a pipe dream, considering we do know how much the Wii and the 3DS sold in this very site and could make a reasonable estimate. But VGC has been like this for Nintendo hardware for over ten years already, if you want to know.

Software, on the other hand, seems pretty good. Except for the Yoshi game, which deserved more.

Edit - oh, that's just Yoshi's initial shipment. Didn't realize it had just released haha. So that's good.

I wonder where some of these software titles are going to end, even if they continue to grow by 2-3 million a year, it is still a high number.

Rather than focusing on the fact that they missed their lofty goal, can we not simply appreciate how far the switch has come compared to Wii U? Only the Wii after the GameCube was probably a greater comeback in gaming history.

Is this year expected to be Switch´s peak year?... they´re only expecting 18m for this year, so if it turns out this year is indeed Switch´s peak, does that seem underwhelming to you guys?

Yeah but did the Wii really have a great impact on gaming history ?

I think what the Switch achieves here is more important for gaming history