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Nintendo Switch Units Sold 139.36 million worldwide (as of December 31, 2023) (www.nintendo.co.jp)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Top 10 Best Selling Switch Games:

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - 60.58M
Animal Crossing: New Horizons - 44.79M
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - 33.67M
Breath of the Wild - 31.61M
Super Mario Odyssey - 27.65M
Pokemon Sword/Shield - 26.17M
Pokemon Scarlet/Violet - 24.36M
Super Mario Party - 20.34M
Tears of the Kingdom - 20.28M
New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe - 17.20M

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh wow. It looks like Nintendo is doing so poorly. They should probably sell to another company.*

*things crazy people say

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I feel like this is primarily wishful thinking by people who play exclusively on PC and want to have their cake and eat it, too. Namely, to play good Nintendo games at 4K 120FPS with mods.

If that's the case, the problem is mainly that they don't say what they really want, instead taking the denial route by trying to convince themselves and others that Nintendo is doomed for supposedly being out of touch with the consumer (who should all be like me).

I don't like Nintendo's model, particularly when it comes to artificial scarcity of their older titles, but I at least accept it works for them and own a Switch because there are compelling games for it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It shows how bad the WiiU failed when its software numbers are lower than the hardware numbers for the Switch.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You mean the other way round? Wii U hardware being lower than Switch software

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Switch:

Hardware:139.36million units
Software:1,200.10million units

Wii U:

Hardware:13.56million units
Software:103.60million units

I think he means this. Total WiiU software sale is less than total Switch sale. Edit: formatting fix.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yep this is what I meant. There’s always going to be more software sales that hardware. So to see that WiiU didn’t even sell more software than Switch sold hardware, that’s pretty bad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

No, they said it right. Follow the link to article, WiiU only had 100million software sales.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mario Kart 8 is fire. I love it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

we don't say sth "is fire" anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder since the switch is a hybrid console, shouldn't it be compared to the total of the Wii + DS consoles

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's still one console, no matter how many ways it can be used.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah but since Nintendo only makes one line of consoles now, it would make sense to add both as a comparison.

Because we no longer have a low powered handheld line, so the userbase merged.