The records for a July - August - September quarter:

2020 NSW 6,850,000
2008 NDS 6,790,000
2007 NDS 6,370,000
2009 NDS 5,730,000
2006 NDS 5,550,000

The Wii never went over 5 million during a Q2.
Q2 record for the PS4: 4.2 million in 2017, no more.

Impressive.

Literally insane considering they had backlash during that period for releasing NO INFORMATION and very little software.

You mean 3rd quarter? But yes, it is absolutely insane how much the Switch selling with so little new software from Nintendo. Have a feeling covid had something to do with increases sales.....god bless Animal Crossing: New Horizons lol

Wow! The record! Amazing. Hopefully they have enough supply to have a stellar holiday quarter as well.

Its 2nd quarter when referring to fiscal year which makes sense in this context. 

Financial year starts in April, so second quarter for the financial year.

Yeah, it's very impressive

Here's some more quarterly data.

Quarterly Breakdown by Fiscal Year (NDS / Wii / PS4 / NSW)

NDS peaked in FY4. Wii in FY2.  PS4 in FY3.

NSW on pace to peak in Y4 (probably in just three quarters, it only needs 9M).  IMO it has a shot at a higher peak again in 2021, but that remains to be seen. 

100M will come and go at this point, its trajectory is clearly aiming way higher now.  This current year should be ~30M and next year should be about the same (+/- 5%).  I think its sitting at 115-120M by the end of FY5 (March 2022), so it should go well past that range as well.

*Sony and Nintendo Fiscal Year's run from Apr - Mar.  So quarters fit in that framework.

*Year 0 is launch Fiscal Year (Nov-Mar for NDS/Wii/PS4, Mar for NSW)

Not even one PlayStation

This isn’t accurate. It would be correct to say Nintendo shifted priority away from distant future software, and placed it on existing software, updates, newly released, and upcoming titles. They’ve released information for these products on a daily basis, utilizing advertisements across various media, websites, YouTube, their official website, and the Switch’s built-in news channel to promote updates to existing users who are all potential by word of mouth advocates.

The people angry about “no news” were quite stubborn and frustrating, simply refusing to acknowledge information that that isn’t wrapped into some ultra-mega-super Direct about first party and AAA EA/Activision games coming out 2-5 years from now.

This isn’t so much a case of “Nintendo magically made sales with no information” so much as the fulfillment of the predictions that Nintendo’s current strategy of keeping eyes and promotional focus on current times rather than future times would result in healthier sales, as no one is being told to “wait and see! In 2-5 years we’ll have something for you!”

This is a bit of a longtime beef I’ve had with Nintendo. The shift to future games for Nintendo is also a major reason why PlayStation beat N64. Sony always kept focus on what they had to sell now, constantly talking about their current catalogue, while Nintendo kept focus on what their product would be in the future, some games years away. Goldeneye and Diddy Kong Racing weren’t promoted far in advance, Nintendo of that era was too dense to pay attention to their own learnings. Of course, Nintendo didn’t have much to sell on N64 at any given time; that was probably why they began shifting to the future rather than revealing the small trickle of releases they had to work with.

It’s clear, now, Nintendo has learned their lesson. Games are no longer promoted years in advance. Nintendo is not telling people to wait for the future, they’re saying: this is what we have now and what you see on the horizon is coming very soon. I expect new hardware won’t be announced until close to the time when we can actually buy it.