Switch sets the benchmark for the highest system sold in a year in US since 2011

Personablue · Jan 30, 2020

Switch sold 6.50M last year making it the highest for any system this gen. What a turnaround for Nintendo.
Thank you Xevross for the data

Xevross said:
From the numbers I have, top 5 years from this gen (approx.):

NSW 2019 - 6.50M
PS4 2015 - 5.74M
NSW 2018 - 5.63M
PS4 2017 - 5.44M
PS4 2018 - 5.33M

For anyone de-railing the thread with 'but not this gen' then please look at this

Switch will be competing/sharing the market with PS4 for more amount of time than WiiU,
WiiU-PS4 Nov 2013 - Feb 2017 3years 3 months
Switch- PS4 Mar 2017 - Nov 2020 3years 8 months

TheInfinityGauntlet · Jan 30, 2020

but the switch isn't this gen

H-I-M · Jan 30, 2020

Impressive, same for the PS4.
They both killed it "this gen".
Excellence won.

Baladium · Jan 30, 2020

Switchcraft

KamenSenshi · Jan 30, 2020

TheInfinityGauntlet said:
but the switch isn't this gen

I was going to say that. Everyone just totally ignores the WiiU now.

Phendrift · Jan 30, 2020

Starting the good news on Nintendo sales early tonight I see.

The first of many threads. Can't wait for the Q3 results in an hour

Personablue · Jan 30, 2020

TheInfinityGauntlet said:
but the switch isn't this gen

Not this again. By the time PS5 launches, it will be 4 years since switch started competing/sharing the market with PS4/Xbox one.

Htown · Jan 30, 2020

TheInfinityGauntlet said:
but the switch isn't this gen

yes it is

nintendo had two consoles this gen, that's all

Deleted member 8593 · Jan 30, 2020

KamenSenshi said:
I was going to say that. Everyone just totally ignores the WiiU now.

This doesn't really factor in, the Wii U was just an addon for the original Wii.

LinkStrikesBack · Jan 30, 2020

TheInfinityGauntlet said:
but the switch isn't this gen

Switch will in all likelihood spend more of its life cycle competing with the PS4 and Xbox one than the follow ups to those consoles, so I don't really see how it isn't the same gen as them.

overcast · Jan 30, 2020

Goddamn, Switch put up crazy numbers in back to back years.

Sadist · Jan 30, 2020

Damn thats good

Betty · Jan 30, 2020

Pokemon power.

Eeyore · Jan 30, 2020

Personablue said:
Not this again. By the time PS5 launches, it will be 4 years since switch started competing/sharing the market with PS4/Xbox one.

Not that this particularly matters but the Wii launched with the PS3, the Wii U launched before the PS4/XB1 and the Switch afterwards. The Switch is the gen after both machines if you go based off of the order of Nintendo consoles. At least that's how I see it.

It also doesn't matter, six and a half million consoles in a year is a lot.

nib95 · Jan 30, 2020

Incredibly impressive.

Personablue · Jan 30, 2020

LinkStrikesBack said:
Switch will in all likelihood spend more of its life cycle competing with the PS4 and Xbox one than the follow ups to those consoles, so I don't really see how it isn't the same gen as them.

Also will be competing/sharing the market with PS4 for more amount of time than WiiU,
WiiU-PS4 Nov 2013 - Feb 2017 3years 3 months
Switch- PS4 Mar 2017 - Nov 2020 3years 8 montha

Vampirolol · Jan 30, 2020

Yes, but will this translate in actual sales?

JustJavi · Jan 30, 2020

But but but... [/s]

boris_feinbrand · Jan 30, 2020

Vampirolol said:
Yes, but will this translate in actual sales?

We'll have to wait. No sense in rushing to conclusions.

Neiteio · Jan 30, 2020

Maybe it's better to say, "The Switch has already had a year in which it sold more than the PS4 ever did in any one of its years."

AfropunkNyc · Jan 30, 2020

infusion of both Nintendo handheld and console. Make sense.

Personablue · Jan 30, 2020

Neiteio said:
Maybe it's better to say, "The Switch has already had a year in which it sold more than the PS4 ever did in any one of its years."

I thought of this, but I didn't want to directly compare with anything. It may have been seen as console war thread

Deleted member 10737 · Jan 30, 2020

switch in beast mode, lovely to see.

Deleted member 8784 · Jan 30, 2020

It really is a great device. I remember when they first announced it I thought the price was too high for it to be a success.
Goes to show if you put good games on it - the people will come.

Prygelknabe · Jan 30, 2020

What's the highest selling system in a year across all gens?

unicornKnight · Jan 30, 2020

TheInfinityGauntlet said:
but the switch isn't this gen

That's like saying X or Pro aren't current gen either

unicornKnight · Jan 30, 2020

Prygelknabe said:
What's the highest selling system in a year across all gens?

Wild guess, PS2 02 or Wii 08?

Oregano · Jan 30, 2020

Is it a beast though?

unicornKnight said:
Wild guess, PS2 02 or Wii 08?

DS probably outdid both.

Gale Moran · Jan 30, 2020

unicornKnight said:
That's like saying X or Pro aren't current gen either

They're revisions.. Switch is not a Wiiu revision..

Mekanos · Jan 30, 2020

100 million is happening. I believe.

0ptimusPayne · Jan 30, 2020

KS93 said:
It really is a great device. I remember when they first announced it I thought the price was too high for it to be a success.
Goes to show if you put good games on it - the people will come.

Poor Wii U :( lol

Ploid 6.0 · Jan 30, 2020

Both PS4 and Xbox One dying down because of next gen being around the corner may help it since it's the only one that's not winding down.

Personablue · Jan 30, 2020

Ploid 6.0 said:
Both PS4 and Xbox One dying down because of next gen being around the corner may help it since it's the only one that's not winding down.

But that's not the point of the thread is it. PS4 or Xbox one never had a 6M year in their entire lifetime. Switch did 6.5

Timppis · Jan 30, 2020

I guess NX won't be DOA afterall.

Ploid 6.0 · Jan 30, 2020

Personablue said:
But that's not the point of the thread is it. PS4 or Xbox one never had a 6M year in their entire lifetime. Switch did 6.5

I was thinking that they've always had to compete against each other without having a spot light only on one of them. Then again, maybe this year people will start saving up for the next consoles.

Dizzy Ukulele · Jan 30, 2020

TheInfinityGauntlet said:
but the switch isn't this gen

Switch is this gen. Those non-hybrid consoles like PS4 and Xbox One (and PS5 and Series X) are so last gen.

Hikari · Jan 30, 2020

Nintendo is going to switch to 1st place.

.exe · Jan 30, 2020

Congrats on the money. Now bring us more SNES games, ya dolts. This new release schedule is killing me.

Noppie · Jan 30, 2020

KS93 said:
It really is a great device. I remember when they first announced it I thought the price was too high for it to be a success.
Goes to show if you put good games on it - the people will come.

Wii U had great games, you're severely underselling the hardware factor here. Switch is a much more attractive formfactor.

Principate · Jan 30, 2020

Oregano said:
Is it a beast though?

DS probably outdid both.

Your not doing it right, your supposed to passive-agressively say Return of the King. We got all sorts of kings in here.

Vilix · Jan 30, 2020

KS93 said:
Goes to show if you put good games on it - the people will come.

If that were true the Dreamcast, GameCube, and the WiiU should've sold like gangbusters.

Inuhanyou · Jan 30, 2020

Switch wont be retired for a long time IMO. So yeah it'll definitely get there. Nintendo is serving it audience well

Oregano · Jan 30, 2020

Principate said:
Your not doing it right, your supposed to passive-agressively say Return of the King. We got all sorts of kings in here.

Slaying the competition.

ArchedThunder · Jan 30, 2020

The poll should have shown what people voted so we could point at laugh.

Deleted member 8784 · Jan 30, 2020

0ptimusPayne said:
Poor Wii U :( lol

Noppie said:
Wii U had great games, you're severely underselling the hardware factor here. Switch is a much more attractive formfactor.

Sure - but they weren't games anyone really wanted to play. Super Mario 3D World perhaps, but you wouldn't buy a console just for it. Breath of the Wild and Mario Odyssey by themselves made a more exciting line-up than anything the WiiU put out in a year in my opinion, and I suspect I'm not alone in thinking so.

I agree with the point about the form factor though. The Wii U was not a good looking device.

tazmin · Jan 30, 2020

It'd have to be an act of God for it not reach to 100 mill

tazmin · Jan 30, 2020

ArchedThunder said:
The poll should have shown what people voted so we could point at laugh.

I remember a lot of resistance at the idea of Switch meeting 100 mill (or more like touching the number PS4 has reached)

christocolus · Jan 30, 2020

well done Nintendo. impressive.

MickZan · Jan 30, 2020

What a runaway succes. I remember everyone dooming the industry due to mobile.

Buzzth · Jan 30, 2020

I've invested a ton in my Switch. Controllers, games, accessories, DLC. Can't wait to splurge even more money on a Switch Pro. Make it happen plz Nintendo

Switch sets the benchmark for the highest system sold in a year in US since 2011

So Switch still on the road to 100M worldwide?

Yay. It always have been. It will breeze through it

No, it will meet with an unexpected accident resulting in early death

But but but..

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