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Forums - Sales - Switch Ships 129.53M as of June 2023, Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom at 18.51M

zeldaring on 05 August 2023
The_Liquid_Laser said:
zeldaring said:

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.

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.

What are you talking about? ps5 shipped  6.3 million in a none holiday quarter. we are in different times. After covid everything changed. with all the money printing inflation is out of control and the wealthy  people got so rich that they don't even know what to with the money. when did switch sales really start exploding, yea after covid.



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Amnesia on 05 August 2023

Is it the first time we have a come back on a quarter year on year while we are in the decline era?
While writing this message, I just remember also that we have this for the PS4 currently, (or had recently) if I remember well.



ShadowLink93 on 05 August 2023
Slownenberg said:

Daaaang Zelda 18.51 million! Incredible. Next quarter Switch will presumably get two new 20 million sellers to hit nine total! Crazy. Switch's top 10 is a thing of legend. By end of this fiscal year, with Mario Wonder, all 10 should be over 20m, with 7 over 25m, and presumably with another half year or so before successor comes out. And with presumably backwards compatibility next gen (because it'd be completely insane not to) some of these games will keep selling a bit for years as new gamers come of age and want to try out the best of the Switch.

Switch had a great quarter for hardware, but we all knew that was coming with the extended Zelda boost. Looking very good for hitting that 15m figure this fiscal year, especially with a new 2D Mario this Fall. Normal trajectory probably would've put HW sales at just under 3m for the quarter, instead it did a million extra!

Anyone wanna do quarterly sales for those top 10 - how much each sold during the quarter?



Jumpin on 05 August 2023

Breath of the Wild has closed the gap between Smash Bros another 160K, 620K in the last three quarters. With only 1.12m remaining, it’s looking likely that Breath of the Wild will end up in third overall behind Mario Kart and Animal Crossing.



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RolStoppable on 06 August 2023
Jumpin said:

Breath of the Wild has closed the gap between Smash Bros another 160K, 620K in the last three quarters. With only 1.12m remaining, it’s looking likely that Breath of the Wild will end up in third overall behind Mario Kart and Animal Crossing.

Breath of the Wild's chance to end up in Switch's top 3 is close to 0. Not because of SSBU, but because Super Mario Bros. Wonder is coming.

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Legend11 correctly predicted that GTA IV will outsell Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I was wrong.

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zeldaring on 06 August 2023
RolStoppable said:
Jumpin said:

Breath of the Wild has closed the gap between Smash Bros another 160K, 620K in the last three quarters. With only 1.12m remaining, it’s looking likely that Breath of the Wild will end up in third overall behind Mario Kart and Animal Crossing.

Breath of the Wild's chance to end up in Switch's top 3 is close to 0. Not because of SSBU, but because Super Mario Bros. Wonder is coming.

No way is Mario wonder beating TOTK i'll take that bet.



RolStoppable on 06 August 2023
zeldaring said:

No way is Mario wonder beating TOTK i'll take that bet.

You don't think people are longing for a new SMB game in the year that the most successful movie based on a video game was released?

More importantly, did you properly understand what you were responding to in the first place? Switch's final top 3 of best-selling games.



Legend11 correctly predicted that GTA IV will outsell Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I was wrong.

zeldaring on 06 August 2023
RolStoppable said:
zeldaring said:

No way is Mario wonder beating TOTK i'll take that bet.

You don't think people are longing for a new SMB game in the year that the most successful movie based on a video game was released?

More importantly, did you properly understand what you were responding to in the first place? Switch's final top 3 of best-selling games.

I think it will do well, but the open world genre is king now and i don't see a 2d Mario beating it, Especially since switch already got one. So yea i'll take that bet. look at what Elden ring did for souls  going open world and same for zelda and 2d just isn't it. A open world 3d Mario i can see beating Zelda, not a 2d one.



Torpoleon on 06 August 2023

@Slownenberg They should do 4 year releases for Pokemon games for quality purposes, but we all know they're gonna stick to 3 years. Honestly, I feel like BDSP only exists because covid delayed Arceus out of Holiday 2021. The reason why they didn't push Arceus to Holiday 2022 and SV to Holiday 2023 is probably because they plan to launch new hardware in 2024 and want a new gen exclusive to that system in Holiday 2025 (and pushing SV to 2023 would give it only 2 years in the limelight).



The_Liquid_Laser on 06 August 2023
zeldaring said:
The_Liquid_Laser said:

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.

What are you talking about? ps5 shipped  6.3 million in a none holiday quarter. we are in different times. After covid everything changed. with all the money printing inflation is out of control and the wealthy  people got so rich that they don't even know what to with the money. when did switch sales really start exploding, yea after covid.

I am talking about how a system sells in it's seventh year.  Systems do not ship 3.91m units in a non-holiday quarter during their seventh year.  Normally this is because the market is near saturation and hardware can't sell anymore.  The Switch is not near saturation which is why it can ship so much in one quarter.

For example PS3 shipments were 2m units during the quarter that GTA5 released, which was during the PS3's seventh year.  GTA5 was definitely a big game, but it didn't move hardware like we just saw in this latest quarterly report from Nintendo.  Normally big games do not move 3.91m hardware this late into a console's life.  It shows that Switch hardware still has a significant amount of sales left before reaching saturation.



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