I haven't looked at profits, but I would assume they're greatly in favour of Switch. I guess PS2 or perhaps DS could outperform Switch thanks to revenue made from 3rd-party software sales, but I'm guessing it's not significant enough to turn the tide in their favour.

I would think third party revenue would be higher on Switch than DS; about half od Switch's 1.5 Billion games sold were third party, so 750m, while DS sold 948m total, and its games were generally priced lower.

Big point to keep in mind is that Nintendo excludes digital only from software totals. DS had virtually no digital storefront, whereas Switch was big for indies which never saw physical releases.

Yep, plus stuff like DLC or skins in Fortnite weren't really a thing on DS, and Nintendo as a platform holder takes a cut on all that.

Yeah, clearly DS has no place in this discussion then. I made my post without looking up (or remembering) any numbers (besides rough console sales), so that was just my hunch earlier.

Almost, but for me, it will always be Atari 2600...that is, if something similar doesn't happen in the future (which is unlikely, at least hardware wise, expect maybe in VR).

Atari 2600 sold 30 millions, which is 30x as much as best selling consoles of 1st generation (Nintendo Color TV Game 6 and 15 at ~1 million sold) and (depending on who you ask) 6-10x as much as second best selling console of 2nd generation (Intellivision), thus transforming home console market from something that was novelty to standard we're familiar with ever since.

Actually, the PS4 is very likely over 2b units of software. The official figure, used on VGchartz, only goes up to September 2020. Since then PS4+PS5 software has sold around 1.5B and combined for the lifetime of the PS4 and PS5 to now is over 3b. So it’s very likely the PS4 is at least 2b.

ps2 is the most successful of all time and it isn't even close.

Comparing ps2 to S1, straight up in sales, is misleading, the market has grown. It should be viewed as a percent.

ps2 had 77.67% market share.

Switch had 46.95% market share.

Not remotely close, nothing has dominated like the ps2 did, nothing.  Straight number comparisons don't factor in changes in market size, nor does it take into inflation.

Nothing touched the ps2, it was outsold the competition 8:1.  The S1 wasn't remotely close to 8:1.

If we're going by which console was the most dominant, Atari 2600 and NES both held around 80% of the market during their heyday.

I would be fine with those as well.  The S1 has high sales, but the market is way bigger too, that needs to be accounted for.  

The fact the home market has doubled and the S1 still won't hit ps2 numbers, credit where credit is due.

To your point, the top 3 would be Atari, NES and ps2.  S1 isn't top 3.  

While the S1 was (obviously) successful, the ps4 did incredibly as well.  The S1 didn't dominate the market.  While the ps2 flatly dominated with an iron fist.