Nintendo has a real winner on their hands with the Switch, as the console-handheld hybrid managed to reach new heights, as found in the company's latest financial results. During the holiday season, 10.81 million Nintendo Switch systems were sold, bringing the lifetime sales up to a whopping 52.48 million. That means the Nintendo Switch has now outsold the Super Nintendo, which back in its day, shifted 49.1 million units. The Switch has also surpassed the Xbox One, just barely beating out sales for Microsoft's console, in a much shorter timeframe. Where the Xbox One had 74 (released in 2013) months to get to 50 million sales, the Nintendo Switch (released in 2017) performed this feat in 34 months. It's onwards and upwards for Nintendo's latest hardware, which will need to sell another 10 million units to reach its next milestone: outselling the NES.

In the sales data, we also get to see new figures for games on the platform, most notably of which is Pokemon Sword and Shield, which have become the 5th most popular game on the Switch, selling 16.06 million copies since their release last November.

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[Stealphie]

ther wasnt any casual gamers back then

Yes, casual gamers existed back then.
In fact, most of gamers back then we're casual gamers.

 

[USUKDecks]

nintendo fanboys buy anything from them, they don't care, usually they have low IQ and are tone deaf to criticism.

you do know they say that about ALL console brands, right?

 

[Stealphie]

nintendo fanboys buy anything from them, they don't care, usually they have low IQ and are tone deaf to criticism.

"Low Iq" "Deaf to criticism"

 

[DANTENDO]

Yes, casual gamers existed back then.
In fact, most of gamers back then we're casual gamers.

were familys especially mums playing games like wii tennis and wii fit-no back in the 80 and 90s a mum never held a nintendo controller

 

[Stealphie]

Pkmn exhausted itself decade ago, last entry as just sloppy job and everybody knows that. Yet, they buy it like crazy. Why?

Because people want to play the games on that console
Examples: Mario Oddysey, Luigi's Mansion 3, Fire Emblem 3 Houses, etc.

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were familys especially mums playing games like wii tennis and wii fit-no back in the 80 and 90s a mum never held a nintendo controller

"Casual gamer" doesn't mean Mom/dad. A kid can be a casual gamer, an adult with no kids can be a casual gamer.

 

[DANTENDO]

Because people want to play the games on that console
Examples: Mario Oddysey, Luigi's Mansion 3, Fire Emblem 3 Houses, etc.

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"Casual gamer" doesn't mean Mom/dad. A kid can be a casual gamer, a adult with no kids can be a casual gamer.

you obviously didnt get my point - were ther family games back in the 80 and 90s no ther wasnt so of course the gaming community naturally would of been smaller than it is today-why i was making the point were the guy was surprised it already beat snes sales-thers mor casual gamers out ther today than snes days thts all im saying

 

[Stealphie]

you obviously didnt get my point - were ther family games back in the 80 and 90s no ther wasnt so of course the gaming community naturally would of been smaller than it is today-why i was making the point were the guy was surprised it already beat snes sales-thers mor casual gamers out ther today than snes days thts all im saying

That is correct, gaming is way bigger now, but you said Casual gamers didn't exist back then, which is not true.

 

[Nobody_Important4u]

Heh good luck outselling ps2.

 

[Pleng]

>surpassing Xbox One
Ok

>surpassing SNES
Whaaaat???...

Well according to the article the Xbox One outsold the SNES so by accepting the first statement, the second one shouldn't really be a surprise...

 

[the_randomizer]

Of course I'd find people crapping on Switch because it "won't outsell PS2".

Well no shit, Sherlock

 

[Stealphie]

Of course I'd find people crapping on Switch because it "won't outsell PS2".

Well no shit, Sherlock

"This console is so bad because it won't sell more than 150Million units (which is more than the population of many countries)"
That's the logic behind people saying it's shit because it won't outsell the ps2

 

[the_randomizer]

"This console is so bad because it won't sell more than 150Million units (which is more than the population of many countries)"

People expect too much or have too high expectations, it's annoying. The Switch is what it is, people need to get over sales comparisons/pissing contests.

 

[Stealphie]

People expect too much or have too high expectations, it's annoying. The Switch is what it is, people need to get over sales comparisons/pissing contests.

Exactly.

 

[jmrodrigues]

nintendo fanboys buy anything from them, they don't care, usually they have low IQ and are tone deaf to criticism.

Not exactly true, the Switch is a good console with lots of fun games, my latest Nintendo console was a SNES. Nintendo got it right this time.

 

[Pleng]

@the_randomizer @Stealphie

Except nobody in this thread has claimed that the Switch is shit because it won't outsell the PS2.

 

[D34DL1N3R]

But but but.... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ost-since-april-after-profit-misses-estimates

 

[Stealphie]

@the_randomizer @Stealphie

Except nobody in this thread has claimed that the Switch is shit because it won't outsell the PS2.

I mean, the only person that i would consider crapping on the switch here isn't exactly crapping on the Switch but there are some people out there that think that number of (insert product here) sold means that it's good.
Example: iPhone 6/6 Plus, not very good phones but they sold incredibly well.
But i gott admit, you do have a point.
also Nice profile pic

 

[raxadian]

Not that surprising. the NES was the first console to really do gangbuster sales numbers.

Fixed that for you.

 

[the_randomizer]

@the_randomizer @Stealphie

Except nobody in this thread has claimed that the Switch is shit because it won't outsell the PS2.

First time for everything

There are still people who bitch that "it's not powerful enough" it's 2015/2016 tech, get the hell over it, people, and get an nVidia Shield TV.

 

[teamlocust]

no shit, i have 2 unpatched, 2 patched and 2 lites so 6 in total, damn... Nintendo made a damn good console after the disaster which was wii u