The sun is setting on the life of the Nintendo Switch. Nevertheless, Nintendo‘s hybrid console is still selling rather well. Even as speculation on the Switch’s successor has continued to increase in intensity and the rumor mill continues to churn, it’s looking all but inevitable now that the Switch is going to surpass the sales of the PlayStation 2.
Mat Piscatella, analyst for Circana, which was formerly The NPD Group, confirmed on Twitter not that long ago that the Nintendo Switch was trailing PlayStation 2 says in the United States by 1,410,000 units as of May 4th, 2024. Almost 2 months have passed since then, so it is highly likely that the Switch has managed to pull off another major milestone. You can see Piscatella’s tweet down below.
With Zelda, mario party and Mario Luigi line up this year it’s definitely gonna reach that milestone there’s always late adopters that exist anyway.
Well it’s going to be like a big parade once the sales continues to increase its milestones.
Depends on if the successor is backwards compatible or not, might not be a reason to get the switch if that is the case.
The wii u was backwards compatible and people were still buying wii consoles most late adopters usually go for the system with the lowest price.
And you can bet it will be more with Metroid Prime 4: Beyond next year.
Collectors of Zelda consoles will put that over the line I think
With the games coming out this Fall/Winter right before Christmas, alongside the new Zelda Switch Lite, it’s joever lol
My condolences. The Switch really doesn’t deserve any good records.
Suck it up!
i’ll gladly suck it up and drink the water.
What dictates “deserving” in your eyes?
whatever comes to my parents’ basement where i live.
Probably thinks Switch is mostly a port machine or something.
Thinking and link2metroid…good one! 😂😂😂
The switch has an amazing line up
Of 1st party games, and tons of great 3rd party games also it deserves its Immense success ….
It’s the little engine that could …
And Sony and a Microsoft 1st party lineups pale in comparison … they can’t consistently compote with Nintendo’s “ fun factor “ …
Or switched versatility … a game machines power isn’t everything. ( and the switch has pulled off some games many thought weren’t even possible because of it lower end power !!
Cleaning up my original post’s typos etc…
The switch has an amazing line up
Of 1st party games, and tons of great 3rd party games too, it deserves it’s Immense success ….
It’s the little engine that could …
And Sony and a Microsoft 1st party lineups pale in comparison … they can’t consistently complete with Nintendo’s
“ fun factor “ …
Or the Switch’s versatility …
a game machines power isn’t everything. ( and the Switch has pulled off some games, that many thought weren’t even possible, because of it lower end power !!
Congratulations to Nintendo 👍🏻
well done !!
I anxiously await the new Nintendo Switch 2 ( or whatever it’s called ) and the amazing Nintendo’s to come …
on the original Switch and the follow up console
😊😁🎮
Yeah agree, it’s the polish that Nintendo put to their first party games and the quality gameplay.
And Who’d a thought games like Witcher 3 would be on switch ( yeah ok sacrifices here and there ), but so impressive for a portable console and such a big game all squeezed onto the little cartridge.
Really looking forward to the switch successor and the fact Nintendo could juice up their existing switch games for even better performance, it can’t come soon enough
Alas, it’s only the third-bestselling video game hardware of all time. Such an abject failure.
The real question is how is Nintendo going to get 160 million users to the next console 🤔
The switch didn’t sell 1.4 million units in the US in the last two months, it didn’t even do that globally. It’s a really slow time of year for the system.
The real comparison dhould be if Switch 2 will outsell Switch 1
“This just in! Like the return of Palpatine, somehow the PS2 has just sold an additional 5m systems! Side note: Sony told Nintendo to go fuck itself.”
It wouldn’t surprise me if Sony releases the PS2 Mini and counts those sales to “crown” itself the owner of the best selling hardware yet again.
But what would stop Nintendo from doing that down the line also ?
Nothing really, but can you really see Nintendo doing such things?
Testing. Testing.