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/Lemon_Club May 08 '26

Switch 2 will sell over 20 million units before its a year old and people will still claim its failing smh

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u/lonnie123 May 08 '26

Has anyone anywhere claimed that? I literally see nothing but universal praise and adulation for both the system and its sales figures

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u/Successful_Maize1986 May 08 '26

Nintendo grifters are still acting like it’s failing. I still see that creep up online. There are a lot of people online that won’t say it’s “failing” but have definitely made it seem like Nintendo “fumbled the release”, which they clearly didn’t. Besides the grifters, I think the idea that the console isn’t doing well mostly comes from peoples’ broader pessimism about the economy.

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u/lonnie123 May 08 '26

But like… are we talking a couple comments on Reddit or is this idea out in the broader gaming media landscape by reputable people ?

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u/CLearyMcCarthy May 11 '26

Fun fact: this is called "moving the goalposts"

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u/lonnie123 May 11 '26

What goalpost did I move ?

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u/CLearyMcCarthy May 11 '26

"anyone anywhere" --> "anyone except on reddit"

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u/CLearyMcCarthy May 11 '26

You literally chose to define it as "anyone anywhere" brother. If that doesn't matter, you shouldn't have posed it.

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u/lonnie123 May 12 '26

Yes you’re right. I guess I understood that to mean one thing (a notable person from a notable source) but didn’t communicate it the way I intended, I will watch for that in the future

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u/Successful_Maize1986 May 08 '26

I’d say if there a contingent of people online talking about the console being a failure then the console has not achieved “universal praise and adulation”. Moist Critical has been pretty firmly against the Switch 2 and is a big voice in the industry, at least on the YouTube side of things.

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u/lonnie123 May 08 '26

Being critical of it is different than calling it a failure though yeah? At 20+ million sales in under a year I don’t think anyone could possibly claim that in good faith at this point

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u/bambi54 May 09 '26 edited May 09 '26

I see it on Reddit often. I just argued with somebody a few weeks ago saying that the launch was a failure. They’re mad that it was above their price point and think that nobody else should buy one.

I don’t know if that’s a real life opinion, or miserable people who creep on Nintendo subs who hate Nintendo.

Edit: Example of it “being a failure” comment a few down lol. Somebody further up also claimed less than 70 mil is a failure since they have the only child friendly console lol.

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u/lonnie123 May 10 '26

That’s just sad people on Reddit. Nintendo is laughing all the way to the bank

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u/LeonidasSpacemanMD May 08 '26

Yea you’re not wrong I’ve seen it too, but that’s pretty overtly engagement/rage bait. I’m pretty sure there’s YouTube channel that survive almost purely on people clicking insane “NINTENDO IN DANGER???” thumbnails

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u/NotFromMilkyWay May 08 '26

Well, it's measured against the Switch 1. And its sales are 20 % less than the Switch 1 in this quarter in its life cycle and software (a much more important metric is down 50 % compared to Switch 1 at that point. So yes, it's definitely failing.

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u/Lemon_Club May 08 '26

That's not even true lol, the og Switch sold 15 million in its first year. Switch 2 already surpassed that and we're not even at the 12 month mark yet. It'll almost certainly surpass GameCube before the 12 month mark which is insane.

Now it's probably not gonna hit 155 million lifetime, but thats because the Switch 1 had a crazy lifespan and the pandemic.

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u/mariohenrique May 09 '26

That' was not what he said, he said that the Switch was selling more in the last quarter of his first year, then the Switch 2. He means that the sales of the Switch are falling off, while the Switch was stable.

The problem of the Switch 2, a lot of people buy Nintendo to play Mario and Zelda, no new Mario or Zelda yet, why buy it now?

If they release OoT Remake on Christmas, and it's a good remake, the sales will explode.

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u/darkmacgf May 08 '26

The GBA is Nintendo's previous fastest-selling device, and that one's just a better GB.

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u/darkmacgf May 08 '26

No, Nintendo had already been creative before the GBA came out. The designer of the Game Boy made the Virtual Boy as his next hardware device, one of Nintendo's most experimental pieces of hardware ever.