Switch ended 2024 with 3.1M hardware sales and it's up YoY for these first 2 weeks.  Very nice. 

I'm LOL at all of the people who are trying to kill off the Switch in their comments.  Reality is that Switch is up YoY for the past 7 out of 8 weeks, but people just really want it to die.  I've been reading comments like this about the Switch ever since I joined the forum in 2017, and it hasn't fallen off a cliff yet.  We should be expecting gradual YoY drops for the Switch each year.  The cliff is never coming.

This is the 2nd time you've posted something like this so why do you expect the drops to remain gradual? The DS fell of a cliff the year the 3DS came out and the 3DS did the year after the Switch came out so if you're gonna act like what other people are saying is absurd you should really explain why they're wrong cause expecting consumers to not behave radically different with the Switch compared to those two is reasonable I'd say.

Probably quite a while, Switch evergreens aren't going anywhere.

Plus the switch 2 is backwards compatible ,might be years into the second consoles lifespan before it happans

lol sorry to burst your bubble but the cliff is coming, and very soon. The cliff already came everywhere else in the world back in 2023, Japan is the only hold out. With Switch 2 announced now and only a few months away from launching the cliff is coming in Japan too. Assuming Switch 2 is priced reasonably ($400) and Nintendo continues with no discounts for Switch, there's gonna be barely any reason to buy a Switch except for purely budget shoppers only interested in the Lite once Switch 2 is here. Switch 2 is the death of Switch.

Only reason it has been slightly up recently is because the previous holidays were incredibly weak for the Switch. Still impressive, but anyone who says the Switch is just going to keep selling and never fall off, when we are months away from it being replaced, is living in a fantasy world and deserves a hell of a LOL haha

And nobody is "trying to kill off Switch", some people are just realistic that an 8 year old system priced similarly to a brand new system is not going to keep selling once that brand new system with backwards compatibility is released. Common sense.

Switch Lite outsold all of PS5.
I can see it accounting for most Switch sales post replacement as a budget option for those who can't afford a Switch 2, assuming no price cuts.

@bolded: No, it didn't.  A cliff-level drop is DS going from 17.5m in one year to 5.1m the next.  The Switch has had nowhere near that kind of drop from year to year worldwide and Japan has been straight-up defying logic.

Of course sales of the Switch will decrease a lot more once the new system launches but why are you so steadfast that there will be no price reduction for the original? Right now it's Nintendo's bread and butter so it makes sense that it would remain at its current price. But once its successor arrives, there will be no reason why a price drop wouldn't occur to get more systems into the hands of people who aren't the consumers looking to spend $400+ on a game system. More games sold, more accounts active... more people in the Switch ecosystem who could potentially upgrade to a Switch 2 over time.

Whether or not your "cliff" arrives for Japan sales once Switch 2 is released remains to be seen but it is almost a certainty that the Switch will, again, outsell the PS5 in their home country this year, even with Monster Hunter releasing for Sony's console.  The Switch form factor is what Japan wants, not a big, power-hungry stationary console with little else to offer that people in this region care about and with Pokemon Legends, Xenoblade and probably decent support still to come that's not going to change anytime soon.

The reality that the Switch is dropping is not mystery to anyone. The question is more like will it reach the PS2? Not if it's dropping and by how much. For cliff to be there it needs to be high enough and to drop low enough. The Switch isn't high anymore worldwide to be possible for a cliff to appear. (or maybe from 10-11M in 2024 to 3M in 2025? but I don't see that happening). Maybe in Japan is possible. But seeing how strong is that market, I doubt it will do 1M or under, this year for there to be a cliff (from 3.1M in 2024) even with a successor's coming. US and Europe are done deal long ago. They were barely moving in 2024, except the holidays of course. There may be a decent December, but again - only the holidays. Other than that they were around 1.5M for the whole year till start of November. Which is a big drop from 2023 and the years before (close to 50%). Again, the question is how much it has in the tank, and will it be enough to reach 160M+ and to be out of the range of doubts the perfect target is 160.6M since it was confirmed by someone from Sony the number was legit. I personally don't think it will reach it and that's primary because I think Nintendo will launch the Switch 2 at a reasonable price, and because it won't do any price cuts on the Switch 1 current models. If it do or launch the Switch 2 at something too expensive, then of course Switch 1 will almost surely pass it because the sales won't drop as much.

mmm... This seems incorrect. N64 sold 5.54 millions in Japan, not 4.54.

Are you sure you did not make an error in 1997, and changed "a 1" for "a 0" in the million units? It will explain the difference.

(Still... tha machine sold worse than originally expected in Japan, and US market "saved" the total numbers of N64. But when you post numbers to compare, you have to do an extra check, cause errors happen).

In case anyone noticed...the LTD column of the hardware chart was previously incorrect (it double counted week 1 numbers). It's been updated and now reflects the correct amount.