Switch has had a good start into the 2021 tracking period, but it needs to be remembered that 2020 was a leap year, so the same two weeks this year include two more good days of the holiday season.
Switch should be able to grow its lead over the course of the next nine weeks, especially because of last year's shortages-affected week 8 to 11 which averaged ~50k per week. Following that, the year over year lead will be wiped out by Animal Crossing and we'll have to see how far behind 2021 falls. I very much doubt that Monster Hunter Rise can match up to Animal Crossing in terms of hardware boost. Worth noting is that AC's boost was a double-edged sword, so the boosted Switch demand resulted in shortages that led to a few bad weeks in spring which will allow 2021 to gain back some ground after the first three mega weeks of AC.
Week | 2020 Weekly | 2020 Cumulative | 2021 Weekly | 2021 Cumulative | Difference Weekly | Difference Cumulative |
1 | 284.827 | 284.827 | 312.121 | 312.121 | 27.294 | 27.294 |
2 | 116.301 | 401.128 | 167.596 | 479.717 | 51.295 | 78.589 |
3 | 96.458 | 497.586 | | | | |
4 | 67.987 | 565.573 | | | | |
5 | 75.922 | 641.495 | | | | |
6 | 100.961 | 741.456 | | | | |
7 | 80.312 | 821.948 | | | | |
8 | 41.490 | 863.258 | | | | |
9 | 53.098 | 916.356 | | | | |
10 | 50.585 | 967.941 | | | | |
11 | 57.274 | 1.025.215 | | | | |
12 | 392.576 | 1.417.791 | | | | |
13 | 282.561 | 1.700.352 | | | | |
14 | 154.640 | 1.854.992 | | | | |
15 | 25.313 | 1.880.305 | | | | |
16 | 27.874 | 1.908.179 | | | | |
17 | 107.104 | 2.015.284 | | | | |
18 | 78.731 | 2.094.015 | | | | |
19 | 78.731 | 2.172.746 | | | | |
20 | 38.380 | 2.211.126 | | | | |
21 | 52.557 | 2.263.683 | | | | |
22 | 107.593 | 2.371.276 | | | | |
23 | 68.192 | 2.439.468 | | | | |
24 | 55.187 | 2.494.655 | | | | |
25 | 78.428 | 2.573.083 | | | | |
26 | 93.799 | 2.666.882 | | | | |
27 | 52.250 | 2.719.132 | | | | |
28 | 96.879 | 2.816.011 | | | | |
29 | 113.197 | 2.929.208 | | | | |
30 | 125.231 | 3.054.439 | | | | |
31 | 86.605 | 3.141.044 | | | | |
32 | 173.338 | 3.314.382 | | | | |
33 | 148.699 | 3.463.081 | | | | |
34 | 70.129 | 3.533.210 | | | | |
35 | 78.773 | 3.611.983 | | | | |
36 | 77.611 | 3.689.594 | | | | |
37 | 83.920 | 3.773.514 | | | | |
38 | 110.029 | 3.883.543 | | | | |
39 | 70.542 | 3.954.085 | | | | |
40 | 91.093 | 4.045.178 | | | | |
41 | 108.575 | 4.153.753 | | | | |
42 | 95.852 | 4.249.605 | | | | |
43 | 64.768 | 4.314.373 | | | | |
44 | 86.985 | 4.401.358 | | | | |
45 | 139.200 | 4.540.558 | | | | |
46 | 116.267 | 4.656.825 | | | | |
47 | 179.143 | 4.835.968 | | | | |
48 | 145.178 | 4.981.146 | | | | |
49 | 204.622 | 5.185.768 | | | | |
50 | 229.698 | 5.415.466 | | | | |
51 | 263.304 | 5.678.770 | | | | |
52 | 278.173 | 5.956.943 | | | | |