@RolStoppable I had trouble finding it too. Click on Financial Highlights from Financial Data, and then you'll find it at the bottom saying "Please see Consolidated Statements of Income Transition in Historical Data for details about prior fiscal years.".

I guess that's the case. But with this we now can see each hardware shipment and know exactly how much each systems sold specifically and when they were discontinued. Like, we now know the New 3DS XL was discontinued in 2018, the 2DS in 2019, and the New 2DS XL in 2020. 

That's an interesting question. I don't think things play out 1:1, i.e. having this first holidays season will make higher lifetime sales. Sure, if you start later with sales you have to catch up but on the other hand with this first holiday sales, the saturation point would also have been reached a bit earlier, meaning that by about today we would have about the same lifetime sales (higher initial sales with earlier reach of saturation point vs. lower initial sales with later saturation point). Personaly, once the Switch is discontinued I guess we would have about the same lifetime sales.

There is also this (below) that was posted by a Nintendo Employee on Neogaf 10 years ago, it goes back to 1982 which is how i got the global yearly totals for SNES.

It's is European Portuguese. But those titles are few. Among my games I only remember Mario Kart 8 being localized are they getting New translations now ?

Try to play RPGs like Pokemon or simulation games like Animal Crossing, or even action adventure like Zelda in a language you know nothing. Maybe Russian? 

Then you will see the point...

Fair enough, I see. But thankfully Spanish is not that weird for portuguese speakers. Not ideal I know, but it helps a lot, specially for simple commands.

I can only speak for myself, but the language barrier didn't stopped my fixation for games (specially Nintendo) in the slightly when I was a kid (No foreign parents or relatives to help). And in that time portuguese translation was a rarity in any platform.

 It didn't to me as well but it turned the experience of liking some games a very convoluted proccess. I needed to play FF VII reading a guide to understand the story. 

I remember getting stucked in games like Chrono Cross several times because I couldn't understand some missions and goals. 

Language barriers can be perplexing but even so games aren’t that difficult to understand. I enjoy playing games in Japanese, and I don’t really know it, but I am able to progress to 100% games.

Thankfully, certain genre of games could be pretty straightforward in their objectives and the way to follow them. 

I'm French Canadian and my English sucked for most of my teenage years until I got to college where I made true strides in my understanding of it.

I basically couldn't get into heavy story games and RPGs in general. I played some of them during my formatting years, but I clearly did not understood what I was reading and going with the linear motions of some games. 

For example, one game I was playing a lot on our family PS2 early on, The Bouncer, had color coded stat upgrades. Not knowing what they meant, I just thought the colors were referencing the characters themselves and not the HP, Attack and Defense stats lol. Our builds were freaking awful hahaha 😂

Thankfully, my interest in games, the lack of more widespread French translations for most games I played and ultimately, the flow of some of those scripts in my language which I judged awful most of the time made me switch to play mainly in English anyway.

Of course, not everyone will be fortunate enough to learn their way through a 2nd language but I'd say it is worth it if you can. 

Just gotta choose between English or Japanese haha. Or both if you're crazy enough !