Very nice numbers to the extent hardware will be adjusted up a bit which I didn't see coming. Great to see Dread doing really well and I wonder if Ultimate will start slowing down soon now that it's finished.

Europe came through, Switch sold as much in Europe as the America's in Q3 with both at 3.8m each. This is unusual because the America's region usually sells 50% more hardware every quarter than Europe. If they could have overcome the shortages in the America's Nintendo could have shipped at least an extra million in Q3.

EDIT: Switch Actually sold 3.4m in Europe for Q3, my mistake.

The Nintendo Switch Crossed 100 million units in it's 20th Quarter. The Nintendo DS took 18, PS4 23  and the Nintendo Wii took 27.

This makes the Nintendo Switch the second fastest selling console to reach the 100 million milestone.

NS' numbers in NA are reaching the higher point for reference under VGC's tracking it's about to pass the PS4 in NA at which point only seven other platforms would have sold more in NA and passing the PS4 would place it on the verge of passing two others as apart from the DS and PS2 the numbers are reasonably close. In comparison in the EU the may only be seven platforms that have sold more than it in the region but the gap is a lot more significant between platforms in comparison when looking at the numbers so the sales potential in EU is still higher and that may be why EU matched NA sales as some of that potential may have been tapped into.

Another clear signal from the market is that we will not settle for a Mario editor as a substitute for 2d Mario. Mario Maker 2 is dead while NSMBU Deluxe, despite its flaws, is rising. Bravo!

Disagree tbh the old formula was what held the series back no matter how critically acclaimed any game was it would never have reached BOTW's sales for several key reasons. The old formula was effectively a very refined template for dungeon crawling this limited who could enjoy the games as well as lock the potential of any title using the formula to the quality of the dungeons the result was everything else in the game not only played second fiddle to dungeons but were dictated by them this could be seen in how the land of Hyrule was a glorified hub rather than a world you were meant to get some attachment to.

A key point is BOTW's Hyrule gets some criticism of not much going on at times but a lot of this is negated by the sandbox mechanics allowing a player to approach the same situation in many different ways, in the other games you can't do this because mechanics were dictated by the dungeons and puzzle based nature meaning you had to adhere to the dungeon crawling template to get through the games and this is where the games would struggle to bring in and appeal to new players.

Folks, in the US the Switch did 1M in March 2020 and again in March 2021, but only pushed 1.1M in Nov 21 and 1.3M in Dec 21 with a Pokemon launch and a new revision which was highly supply constrained.

OLED shipments to the Americas (US/CA/MX and all of SA) were 1.41M. Oct 2021 US only OLED sell-through was 314K. There was incredibly weak supply of OLEDs to meet BF/Christmas demand in the Americas after launch. It's not a saturation issue lol.

The Switch is just such a beast

Pokemon BD/SP already about to surpass Let's Go P/E, almost 14M in a month and a few days is just insane.

Great numbers for Metroid

Regional Hardware shipments (HH vs Hybrid) by quarter with YoY change from FY20-21 > FY21-22, with software included as well.  Europe + Other combined to include older years.

Here's just the last 3 FYs so that Eur/Other are split up.

Hybrids in Americas/Europe close to flat YoY thus far, most of the dip has come from Japan.  Handheld (Lite) OTOH is down nearly 2/3.

I've got the quarterly data in this format as well for anyone that is curious.

The CESA games white paper is where we get updates from after Nintendo stop doing so themselves. I think Rol doesn't include these updates in his spreadsheat. On Wikipedia in articles about the best selling games on various Nintendo consoles you can find this as a source for many games sales numbers. Nintendo and other publishers provide their numbers to CESA. The next one is coming this spring, delayed from last year and gives updates up until the end of 2020.