Smash is pretty much guaranteed to pass 20 million lifetime at this point, and amazingly BOTW looks to have a decent shot at doing so as well.

Very keen to see how Luigi's Mansion 3 fares; LM2 did just over 6 million on 3DS, folllowing the trend so far of software selling far better on Switch than prior platforms, could LM3 perhaps (eventually) join the 10 million plus club? I reckon it has a shot.

I kind of thought the same, but that wouldn't reflect all the money they saved by not having two research and development teams, two sets of software teams, two sets of marketing teams, etc. They've saved a lot of money by consolidating down to one device, possibly offsetting the fact that they aren't selling as many Switch's as they would combined sales of home console and portable in most generations.

I don't think that's the right way to look at it given the Switch is a different kind of platform with different value and software sales patterns. I am not sure the average number of users per console, but it's a safe bet to consider a higher average number of users per Switch than per 3DS, which means higher software sales potential. We can back this by looking at the data, Nintendo sells way more games on Switch, and is bringing in significantly more money in the Switch era than in the Wii U/3DS era.

"Switch Lite" is not doing as good as I hoped, but lets see what it does during the holidays.

The chart displays net sales which is another term for revenue, so the total amount of money spent on Nintendo products during each year. The figures are global, the US part in the headline of the image only refers to the currency of the numbers.

What's more interesting than a chart for net sales (a.k.a. revenue) is operating profit, so the money Nintendo has earned after their costs and expenses have been substracted.

This image highlights how much better Switch is for Nintendo than the 3DS and Wii U were. The sum of the 3DS and Wii U years evens out to about zero profit; the 3DS launched at the tail end of fiscal year 2011, so the vast majority of the 2011 bar are profits generated by the Wii and DS. Fiscal year 2012 is when Nintendo had to cut the price of the 3DS early and that caused the loss; afterwards the Wii U didn't help matters.

Switch launched at the tail end of fiscal year 2017, so it was available for only one month in the 2017 period. 2018 includes Switch in earnest and that's where profits are shooting up. Basically, Switch made Nintendo more profit in its first year than the 3DS and Wii U did during their entire lifetimes. 2019 shows further growth and the current fiscal year 2020 (not on the image) will see another slight increase. While Switch won't reach the same peak as the Wii and DS combined (2008-2010), it's doing leaps and bounds better than the 3DS and Wii U to become one of the most successful consoles of all time, regardless of which metrics are used (revenue, profit, hardware units, software units, tie ratio).

I was not sure, but the 2019 quantity only shows the 2 first Q of FY2019, which means at the end that 209 will be around 3 times higher than this current graph and possibly be the best FY ever for Nintendo.

EDIT : no there is a problem in what you say, Nintendo released the Switch on the last month of FY2016, not 2017.

2019 isnt just 2 quarters, its the projected total for the fiscal year.

And FY2017 is the year ending March 2017.

oh my....Ok...So all my graphs were wrong until now. But that was just a problem of labeling, my data were correct. So we are now, in the Japan FY2020 right ?

Nintendo's corporate website uses the wording "fiscal term ended March XXXX", so I am not even sure anymore if the fiscal year ending March 2020 would be called FY2019 or FY2020. As long as you label your graphs unambiguously, it will be fine. Probably why it's common that the wording "fiscal year ending March" is being used because it's clearer which timeframe is meant.