Yeah cause there are 5 consoles in the 80-87 million range, so that's normal.

Wow that’s even more impressive.

VGC Best Years through Week 11

NSW 2021 retakes the lead.  NSW 2020 is about to make it's crazy run (5M units in 8 weeks LOL).  NSW 2021 will tank the hit of ACNH launch next week (2020 did 1.04M, 2021 should be 7-800K), and that should keep the buffer at about 1M units, which will likely whittle away in the ensuing 7 weeks.  NSW 2021 does have a healthier Apr-Jun period in terms of software and supply should be less spotty after April this year vs. last year so will be a fun face-off.

NSW 2021 will very likely break the Q1 record (5,424K by NDS 07) as it looks like its going to hit around 5.8M at this pace.

NSW 2020 stayed above a 6M 13 week rolling sum from week 18 - week 25, peaking at 7M in week 23, and holding 6.9M in surrounding weeks. NDS 07 just barely grazed the 6M barrier for a few weeks in Jul-Sep 07, never getting up to the 6.1M mark though.

Aside from those two, no device has ever hit a 6M 13 week rolling sum outside of late Nov - mid Jan holiday period. Technically NSW 2021 has a realistic shot if it can do 1,355K in the coming two weeks (800K + 600K).

Fastest to 10M in a calendar year is a tie between NDS 07 and NSW 21, both at 24 weeks. Something to keep an eye on for this year as well.

All VGChartz numbers.

That's not how this works. It's all upto the switch. No one in the world will think, of shouldn't buy the switch because it's at 156mil and PS2 is king so I shouldn't have fun. It's only upto how switch does.

Insane to think about. We are in the middle of gaming history. If the switch can get close to surpass it's last year, it may very well end up the best selling console in history. Especially if a New switch variant with dlss is released. I feel ninty will not go on to the next gen until at least 2024

I think it might happen in May, 10 more weeks would be the week ending 29th May, Switch has 4.1m to go so if it averages over 410k per week it should do it then.
It will likely pass the PS3 in June (or if not then first week in July)

I don't think it can catch the Wii before December though unless a new hardware revision drops in time.... So it should be December to see it overtake Wii & PS1.

474k without any big release. Some may have bought the console for MHR, though. Next week should be tied with last year and then Switch will increase the gap again due to the shortages we had last year.

Yeah for various reasons that people don't consider often enough:

- If PS2 just played games it still would have sold really well, could even have been #1 all time still, but I suspect there were at least 10-20+ million buyers that got it just for DVD players.

- PS2 was cheap to make and buy and weaker than GameCube and Xbox.

- PS3 bombed hard out of the gate due to insane price so PS2 legs were fantastic.

- PS2 getting Wii/PSP ports also helped its legs.

- Launched a year before Xbox/GameCube. Also, Microsoft was new so most of the "hardcore" gamers already had insane loyalty towards PlayStation. They could have released PS2 with barely better visuals than 1 and it still would have outsold the original Xbox.

Switch won't get most of those benefits:

- It has no DVD/Blue Ray drive, nor is streaming heavily featured/advertised for it. People buy Switch's to play games, plain and simple.

- Designing the technology in the Switch to work in such a compact device was probably more expensive to develop than the Wii U and Wii. If I had to guess I'd say this cost more to design and manufacture than most modern Nintendo devices.

- We won't really know for a while how the successor does, so it's too early to tell if Switch 1 will get this benefit.

- Switch doesn't get many PS4/Xbox One ports, and will get considerably less Series X/PS5 ports.

- While it did launch years before the competition launched their next devices, even in 2017 the brand new Switch was considerably weaker than Xbox One and PS4, unlike the PS2 which launched and was much more powerful than N64.

In the end, I will be far more impressed with whatever sales Switch gets than I am with PS2, because it didn't receive non-gaming and coincidental benefits like PS2. Numbers from the hardware part of this site:

PS2 - 157.68

PS3 - 87.41

PS4 - 115.28

PS2 really does stand out, and if those coincidental reasons weren't the cause of it having such high sales, then we should expect to see similar sales of PS3 and PS4, but we don't. PS3 bombed by comparison. PS4, for as loved as the device was and as well as it did, came no where close to PS2 sales.

What could they possibly release in March 2022 that could produce such massive hardware sales like Animal Crossing 2020 and Monster Hunter 2021? I don't think Zelda would be it. It's a sequel game, so it's automatically doomed to do less than Breath of the Wild, plus many of the buyers of that game already have Switch's to they bought to play Botw on.

I'm thinking it will need to be some massive exclusive (at least to console) game we haven't seen on Switch before.