By the time they are done selling, BOTW will outsell the lifetime sales of the Megadrive and Xbox Series, Mario Odyssey will outsell the N64, and Mario Kart 8 will outsell the PSP/GBA.

Thata crazy! Almost as high as the ps2! 

Well if i may say something, sony stopped anouncing ps2 software sales and bundled it with ps3..i have read stuff going from 1.57billion to 1.8billion.

Also, yea nintendo first party sales are INSANE no denying or twisting that nintendo is a powerhouse!!

Also if i may say, modding/burning dvds on ps2 was really big, ps2 lost millions if not hundred of millions of software sales.

Also plz forgive me if i may say, lots and LOTS of games on switch that counts as a " game sale" cost 50cent, a 1 dollar, 5 dollars.. etc

Ps2 didnt had that....

That's all not trying to twist the massive succes of the switch.

It's cause support will drop way faster due to how anaemic it is. In 2023 the PS4 got stuff like Hogwarts Legacy, RE4 Remake and MWIII while next year the Switch 1 won't be getting any big current games and developers are already beginning to drop Switch 1 versions of their games replacing it with a Switch 2 version with that happening with Decapolice. By 2028 the platform will be kinda dead in terms of new releases outside of some indie and Japanese titles.

I would argue major releases are significantly less important to a lot of the Switch casual audience as they were to the PS4 audience, who care a lot more about getting blockbuster titles.

Many Switch 1 owners will probably be content to carry on playing the plentiful indie/minor software or their chosen cosy forever game to years to come, not really caring about if major titles keep coming.

The PS4 software number only goes up to September 2020. It’s very likely 2b+ now. 

You guys forget that Nintendo doesn’t include in the software sales the digital only games so indie games are not in the total.

I'd say the higher prices are part of it, but the main reason is lack of games.

Switch had multiple system sellers at this point in it's lifetime, while Switch 2 at best has one (MKW) but given the critcsism that game's design has gotten I'm not even sure we can really say that is a must-have killer game for the system, but it still at least is Mario Kart. So S2 has zero to one system sellers after the 13 months this data covers, while Switch had 3 much more significant must-have system sellers after just 8 months. That obviously hurts S2 software sales. From a games perspective there really isn't much reason to own a S2 yet, and we are seeing that in the low attach rate as people bought the system based on hype of the Switch successor, but then there isn't much in the way of games to interest them.

Everyone thought that Nintendo would start the next gen at full speed given that the Switch had a really long life cycle and they have a tonnnn of money from it and the last couple years were mostly ports and smaller games. But they surprised everyone by starting the gen lying down with the only plan being that people should buy the system based on hype, which did work for the record breaking launch but then quickly stopped working. Thus we see the second year hardware forecast is much lower than the first year and software sales are weak. Nintendo has gotta be hoping that OoT, Pokemon, and 3D Mario (finnnaaalllyyyyy) hitting will juice sales numbers.

Really? Soo 1.5bill physical/digital on what? What are the total softwarw sales then?

Who knows. Nintendo are dumb as heck for not reporting it. Most big games, even indie, will get a retail release at some point though.

But it adds a lot of questions. If a game later gets a retail release are it's digital sales retroactively added?