Digital only games not counting towards total software sold make this tie rate as good as useless. The actual tie rate must be closer to 12 than 9

Although I agree it's meaningless comparing to older systems where the games needed to be bought at retail with higher entry prices relative to inflation. Nowadays I can browse eshop and buy 12 games for 60 USD

But even going by the metric of only counting games with retail + digital releases on Switch (Which is Nintendo's official tie ratio metric), Switch 1 is now at a 9,66 software tie ratio, so could easily achieve over 10 on that metric.

I assume the reason Nintendo doesn't count digital only software into the tie ratio is that many of those kinds of games are sold for a few dollars, which would distort the amount of total software sold too much from previous systems with higher priced software sold.

No mention about Metroid Prime 4, so the game shipped below 1M units? this will be really sad if this is true.

I've never seem a Switch game from Nintendo get discounted as fast as Metroid Prime 4 here is Brazil, I have seem it get to R$260 on big stores (before coupouns) already, meanwhile other Nintendo games took several years to get to that if they ever do. Just checked it and it's R$ 269 on Mercado Livre on a store I know.

They mostly go around from 350 to 330 or 300 in some promotions, and some older games go for 250 or 260 during Black Friday kind of promotions on Amazon.

Prime 4 is really new and is getting a discount like that already, in January/February no less, doesn't even look like it's much of a promotion but a soft price drop.

All of that is based on physical, btw.

So yeah, I think it's safe to assume it's not selling too well.

Metroid Prime 4 Beyond has just been a disaster. From the lastluster marketing campaign (likely a consequence of lack-of-faith in the game quality) to lukewarm reception among critics and consumers to a very troubled (and likely thereby expensive) development cycle, this is not the Metroid Prime experience I’m familiar with— surely sales have exceeded the Remaster/Remake from three years back, no? My only hope is that Nintendo doesn’t give up on 3D Metroid just yet… Metroid Prime might be in trouble, but I think 3D Metroid still has hope.

Pokemon Legends and MP4 both have gotten discounted really fast in the UK. Seen the physical switch 2 versions for £40 or less. Heck I've even seen the physical version of Mario Kart World down at £50 from it's crazy RRP of £75.

I've also seen DK quite cheap too, so weirdly a lot of Switch 2 titles are dropping in price.

 Kirby, a game I'm more interested in than Z-A/MP4, isn't getting discounted despite no one buying it lol.

Donkey Kong Bananza is at 4.25 million units!! Please let it pass 5 million!!

Switch 2 getting adjusted down isn't ideal but 7m is still a good result everything considered. Things have slowed down a lot from the initial insane pace but that was never gonna last and it'll still reach the forecast easily and it's starting this year off strongly in Japan. Over the next stretch shipments will be decently similar to what the Switch 1 did in 2018 is my guess though stuff like the recent RAM insanity could hurt.

For the Switch 1 shipments are massively down YoY as expected so unless they decide to overship a bit in Q4 to make it it looks like it could fall a tad short of the 4m forecast since it would need to be down YoY less than expected to get there. It's become the best selling Nintendo console ever which is incredible but best selling console ever looks very out of reach now.

On the software side Mario Kart is wild as usual though DK is lower than I would've expected and Prime 4 not even charting is rough. The Switch 2 should thankfully have a much stronger holiday line-up this year and the Switch 1 hit some nice milestones such as 70m for MK8. As mentioned games like Legends Z-A counting as Switch 1 versions if bought digitally on the Switch 2 is really dumb since it would've been nice to know the actual splits for games like that. Also Curl the Switch 1 shipped 1.36m so you know. The OP currently says 1.26m.

Switch 1 software sales only declined 12 % year on year, even though Switch 1 hardware sales have collapsed year on year, which means that a lot of Switch 2 owners must be buying Switch 1 games to keep those Switch 1 software sales fairly steady.

Few Questions:

Is there already a Quarterly Sales update topic for Xbox

It looks like the Switch 2 should be able to get to its forcasted 19 million sales.  Thats about 650k units shipped a month.  One would expect it to get very close.  Is there are reason to think they wont make it?

Nintendo's stock is not responding in the way I thought it would.  The stock is down about 5% to 7% today and they are calling its Q3 performance a 'miss'.   Is there something I'm not seeing that the broader market is seeing or is the dip just related to missing the Q3 forecast even if by only a little bit?  Are people worried it can't get to the 19 in Q4?

According to Nintendo, there was no impact from chip price shortages.  This brings into question accusation that memory prices could impact the Switch 2 costs.   If that is the case should Nintendo lower the price of the Switch 2 by $50?