and with that... an announcement for a pokemon direct next week. gamefreak doesn't seem to be slowing down, unfortunately. i was really hoping they'd take this year off (aside from DLC) and focus on creating a better next-gen game. yet, the pokemon machine rolls on. 

hopefully the announcement is for a let's go style game and nothing massive.

Gotta say, 3.91M is a ton of hardware for a system in it's seventh year during a non-holiday quarter. Sure Zelda, a really big game, released, but there have been plenty of really big games to release in a system's seventh year and they don't sell hardware like this. Both FF7 Remake and TLOU2 released during the PS4's seventh year while COVID was going on, and PS4 did not sell hardware anywhere near this level.

Switch hardware has plenty of room to keep selling. I think it's going to sell about 17M this fiscal year. Also, there seems to be this narrative that Nintendo would want to replace the Switch soon. This report contradicts that narrative. This is the best first quarter of a FY that Nintendo has ever had. It even beats 2020's Animal Crossing + COVID first quarter. This doesn't look like a system in decline. Both Zelda and the Mario movie have given the Switch a steroid shot and there are 2 more Mario games coming this holiday.

I don't think Switch is going to have any problem selling over 155m. Expect it to become the top selling console of all time.

Nintendo's quarter fiscal results have become a scary event for me. I am 40 years old soon, now when I see such new topic I am like:
"what ....no...a new quarter has passed already?"

Switch’s hybrid form factor likely has a lot to do with the sales. Handhelds are typically personal consoles while home consoles are often shared. It’s why despite the DS selling substantially higher than the Wii, that the Wii probably had a lot more users in total than the DS including those who owned the consoles, shared them in the household, and those who’d come over to play games like Wii Sports, Mario Kart, and Just Dance. But the amount of time Switch has been around is not insignificant. Families and households sharing a Switch will inevitably have users who want their own Switch for the handheld capabilities. Also, because children age and go off to boarding school or university, they’ll want their own switch, and will enter new households; beginning the process anew. This is kind of what happens with home consoles, but much more effectively because of the handheld hybrid factor.

Switch also has several massively popular local multiplayer games, but Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is perhaps the greatest of all time.
This ties to another handheld advantage toward sales. People working in an office tend to like to play games during the lunch break. There are people who buy Switch’s literally just to take part in Mario Kart at lunch; many people grew up playing Mario Kart, 64, or Mario Kart Wii. It’s a game everyone knows, and those who don’t aren’t left out either because of how easy it is to get into it.

Switch has a great potential to become the highest selling console of all time. I don’t think Switch 2 is going to slow the momentum much. People buying Switch these days are hardly the early adopter type, especially if Switch 2 ends up with a price point about double Switch 1, and has low availability. The only way Switch 1 slows is if Nintendo cuts back production and support. I don’t think they will, as I think that’s what the 3DS experiment was about. And Switch 1 has advantages over the late-Gen 3DS experiment, because if true compatibility is a factor, people who buy a Switch in 2024-2026 won’t be investing in a dead end if they want to keep the upgrade avenue open for a later time. For Nintendo, this will also bulk up the potential later gen customer base rather than them considering other options too strongly since they already invested into the Switch 2 ecosystem by buying Switch 1 games.

TOTK is on GTA level now, and last of us part 2 they really ruined the franchise and sales show this, it's basically selling near new sony ip levels. FF hasn't been a system seller long time.

It will be an interesting one to watch; Hogwarts was at 15 million back in May, and sold 12 million in its first two weeks.

Of the two, it's the bigger IP by far, and has access to a much larger install base. TOTK on the other hand recieved a more glowing reception, and has massive momentum behind it coming off the phenomenon that was BOTW.

haha so true. I could see them do another Legends on Switch next year to get just one more Pokemon game on Switch. I think Pokemon has a history of releasing games very late into a lifecycle. And Legends seemed like it was the start of a series so I assume there will be at least two or three Legends games. But it would be great if the Pokemon direct was just like here's a couple small little things announced and now we're gonna wholly focus on the next mainline game for the next three years. Ha fat chance.

TOTK is not going to sell like GTA5.  And yet the PS3 did not sell anywhere near like the Switch is selling now even though GTA5 released in its 7th year.  

Big games get released near the end of a systems life all the time, and yet other systems do not ever sell around 4M hardware in a non-holiday quarter.  That doesn't happen in a system's 7th year.  This sort of sales behavior is unprecedented.

18.5 million for Zelda in just a month and a half with a 70$ price tag.
Revenue of over 1.3 billion USD.
Absolutely Incredible!

Get ready for more $70 MSRP games lol.