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Forums - Sales Discussion - Switch Sales Top 104M - Global Hardware Feb 6-12

Gotta also wonder if the 2K LEGO Football game which is set to release this year will also be having Switch as one of the platforms kinda of funny that Nintendo & 2K end up eating EA & Konami's lunch on the Switch.



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People commenting PS5 sales: the figures you see are litteraly the production numbers, nothing else. Everything is instantely sold out, there is nothing to comment or compare or try to understand a trend beside Sony's production capacity.



Pandemic is just choking Sony out. Imagine how fast they'd be going if they could up their production. Could easily be 25m+ by now but there's no way to know the ceiling on this thing until they stop nearly instantly selling out somewhere. No end in sight either so by the end of this they're probably gonna end up 10s of millions of units short from where they could've been



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The_Liquid_Laser said:

Switch did nearly 400k on a week where nothing special happened, and it also passed 104M.  Folks, the Switch cliff is never going to come.  I hope most people realize this now.  If you are hoping for a Switch cliff, then abandon all hope now.

People are thinking Switch will plummet quickly like certain past systems, i.e. the Wii or DS (eventually).  The Switch is actually performing like a past system, but that system is the NES/Famicom.  That is the last time that Nintendo could focus all of its resources on supporting one system.  It was also the most dominant system in history, at least in Japan and US.  The Switch is a return to form.  It's just as dominant in Japan as the Famicom, and it's doing extremely well in the other parts of the world.  The NES sold for several years after the SNES launched.  Expect the Switch to keep selling too.

Most people realized this years ago, it's mainly just brought up as a joke.



Kakadu18 said:
The_Liquid_Laser said:

Switch did nearly 400k on a week where nothing special happened, and it also passed 104M.  Folks, the Switch cliff is never going to come.  I hope most people realize this now.  If you are hoping for a Switch cliff, then abandon all hope now.

People are thinking Switch will plummet quickly like certain past systems, i.e. the Wii or DS (eventually).  The Switch is actually performing like a past system, but that system is the NES/Famicom.  That is the last time that Nintendo could focus all of its resources on supporting one system.  It was also the most dominant system in history, at least in Japan and US.  The Switch is a return to form.  It's just as dominant in Japan as the Famicom, and it's doing extremely well in the other parts of the world.  The NES sold for several years after the SNES launched.  Expect the Switch to keep selling too.

Most people realized this years ago, it's mainly just brought up as a joke.

I recall as recently as 2019 that 2/3 of people voted the Switch would never outsell the PS4.

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The_Liquid_Laser said:
Kakadu18 said:

Most people realized this years ago, it's mainly just brought up as a joke.

I recall as recently as 2019 that 2/3 of people voted the Switch would never outsell the PS4.

Heck, I remember someone posting quite seriously in late 2020 that Switch sales would nosedive in 2021.



Nintendo’s dominance with the Switch remains as constant as the Northern Star, of whose true fixed and resting quality there is no equal in the firmament.



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All Time Video Game Hardware Sales List:

1) PlayStation 2 (PS2) - 157,680,000 (155,000,000+ according to Sony) Mar. 31st, 2012

2) Nintendo DS (DS) - 154,900,000 (154,020,000 according to Nintendo) - Mar. 31st, 2021

3) Game Boy (GB/GBC) - 118,690,000

4) PlayStation 4 (PS4) - 116,641,876 (116,900,000+ according to Sony) - Sept. 30st, 2021

5) Nintendo Switch (NS) - 104,193,245 (103,540,000 according to Nintendo) - Sept. 30th, 2021



PAOerfulone said:

All Time Video Game Hardware Sales List:

1) PlayStation 2 (PS2) - 157,680,000 (155,000,000+ according to Sony) Mar. 31st, 2012

2) Nintendo DS (DS) - 154,900,000 (154,020,000 according to Nintendo) - Mar. 31st, 2021

3) Game Boy (GB/GBC) - 118,690,000

4) PlayStation 4 (PS4) - 116,641,876 (116,900,000+ according to Sony) - Sept. 30st, 2021

5) Nintendo Switch (NS) - 104,193,245 (103,540,000 according to Nintendo) - Sept. 30th, 2021

Will be fun to watch Switch move through that top 5 over the next 3 years. Possibly pass PS4 black friday week and GB first week of December.

After all the predictions of cliffs and saturation and early replacement, Switch is still going very strong in 2022. Even just a few weeks ago someone on here said Switch is dropping to 250k/week and instead it climbed back to around 400k. Gonna be another solid 20m+ year for Switch.



curl-6 said:
The_Liquid_Laser said:

I recall as recently as 2019 that 2/3 of people voted the Switch would never outsell the PS4.

Heck, I remember someone posting quite seriously in late 2020 that Switch sales would nosedive in 2021.

I'll do one better.  I remember someone posting late 2021 that Switch sales will take a nosedive this year.  Not dip, but drop by 10 million units in one year.   Still waiting for that 150,000 baseline weekly average to appear.