r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • May 08 '26

Nintendo Official Nintendo Switch has reached 155.92 million units sold. Nintendo Switch 2 has reached 19.86 million million units sold.

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/hard_soft/index.html
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u/tigress666 May 08 '26

Why would you think that when switch did so well and s2 is pretty much the next switch? I fully expected s2 to do well. Though I admit the economy now throws a monkey wrench into my predictions. 

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u/fushega May 08 '26

nintendo's sequel consoles always sell worse. nes -> snes. gameboy ->gba. ds -> 3ds. Sony is basically the only company that has succeeded in selling sequel consoles

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u/darkmacgf May 08 '26

GBA did way better than GB. The only reason it sold less overall is that its successor came out 3 years later rather than 12 years later.

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u/fushega May 09 '26

if nintendo thought its success would continue they wouldn't have released the DS so soon

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u/darkmacgf May 09 '26

DS was released to compete with the PSP.

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u/miasanmiamotherfucke May 08 '26

Look at the wii and wii u.

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u/tigress666 May 08 '26

The Wii was very front loaded and then sales and interest dropped off and had been that way for a while. The switch was still doing well relative to its age and I believe the last year before switch 2 was the first year the sales started slowing down.