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CaptainOfCrush posted...

Switch Sales
2017 - 15m
2018 - 17m
2019 - 20m
2020 - 28m
2021 - 24m

If Switch gets another two full years to stand on its own (a seven year cycle is unheard of for a Nintendo console, but so is this sustained level of success, and covid has slowed production and R&D anyway), I'd say it has a shot to overtake the PS2. Averaging 20m per year over the next two years is lofty but achievable, and by then, it'd be about 10m behind PS2. At that point, if Nintendo is really interested in reclaiming the "best selling console" mantle after three decades, they can finally cut the price to get Switch over the hump.

Yeah this is bonkers that the Switch has been selling hotter than ever before recently. I definitely think the case for it becoming the best selling console of all time is plausible. Next gen remains hard to get, price cut could give a big boost, and of course another iteration of the Switch could (but I don't see them doing that). It just depends on how many people are left that don't have a Switch and are still interested. The market is probably there.

Man, I wish Iwata was around to see his vision fully realized. He had a lot to do with the development of the Switch :(