Nintendo Switch Surpasses 140 Million Sales As Company Acknowledges Successor

PS2 is still my favorite console all the time if compared with Switch and NDS.

god, mario kart just does not stop printing money. I mean i love to see it but it feels like everyone who wanted it would have already had it by this point!

@epicgamner Well you forget that there are always new children who get their first Switch and MK8DX alongside it

@mariomaster96 yeah, that makes sense. Dang kids, dont you know that videogames are serious and only for adults?

What a run Nintendo’s having… now they need to just stick the landing with this successor.

If they do a price cut on the current switch they will absolutely beat the record. They could do a price cut when they do the announcement for the switch 2 in time for black Friday

It certainly has a solid chance of beating PS2 sales at this point. In the bigger scheme of things, it's helped Nintendo financially have some of their best years ever, year after year. A masterclass of a turnaround compared to the Wii U.

The best selling console of all time. Confirmed. Of course, if Sony doesn't set imaginary 5-10 million sales again in a few months.

At this point Nintendo should do a price drop to boost sales and to hype up for the successor

Keep up the hard work Nintendo. I know you can do it!

The Switch is already legendary in my books.

When somebody ask to a saler what game could be buy with a Switch, this one says MK8D the most of the time. Those amount of sales is normal. PS2 will be beaten, for sure. 160 M of PS2 is for 17 years (155 to 158 after 11 to 13 years). Switch will rule for a decade, for sure.

By the end of 2025, Switch will have beaten the PS2 and become the king. There's no way it won't happen.

Does this mean the total PS2 sales are going to go up again soon?

What a wild generation this was. It feels like Nintendo's in a new golden age. And this is coming off of probably their worst generation to date immediately before.

@BANJO I also think that Switch can beat PS2 sales numbers. Just imagine a Switch Lite bundled with Mario Kart on Christmas for 120 bucks/quids/whatever. There are still millions of 8-year-olds out there without a Switch, and parents who don’t want to spend 400!

@Ralizah Indeed, but to be fair, we should summarize the sales for consoles and handhelds. Then you can see that, with the exception of Wii/DS, the sales ever declined since NES/GB.

@Max_the_German Yes, it's theirs for the taking at this point. It really depends how much they want to push Switch sales when the successor is around the corner.

@Ralizah I'm not sure how much they sold from 1995/6 till 2001 (the N64-GBColor era), but the WiiU-3DS era was pretty bad for sure. They sold about 90 million consoles in total...

Yeah, Switch will still sell even when the new system is out. 3DS stayed relevant for another couple of years while Switch was on the market. So, yeah, Switch will be on top someday. For sure.

@the_beaver Just imagine how dire it could've been if Nintendo hadn't done their aggressive price cut on 3DS in late 2011 and revived sales!

@Max_the_German True, although 3DS, despite selling wildly better than Wii U, is still their worst-selling major handheld to date. So last gen was absolutely the worst one for them from a sales' standpoint.

I hope the switch will sell more than ps2, just a little bit more to become the best selling console of all time 😃

Eeeeyup, the top of the pedestal is in the bag. With 14 million to go, Switch could potentially chug to the mark even if the proverbial successor got released next week (and I mean it with OR without a permanent price cut any of the SKUs has yet to see), but we only just had its existence pretty much reiterated and not so much as a proper announcement expected until somewhere between this July and next April (with many probably tempted to expect it around late October by pure analogy). The hybrid queen is all but guaranteed to have its eighth winter holidays all to herself, and it still printed money by standards of a console its age during its recent seventh. After all, Switch's own pitch and promise were bee's knees since the eloquently wordless reveal trailer, but none of them could be wrapped up and placed under the tree back in December 2016.

To paraphrase a contextually spoilery line (in good humour, given PS2's own merits and library to salute) - "Off my throne, jester. The queen sits here"

@the_beaver some dare guess Gen 4 Game Boy's sales at around 85 mln, which leaves its successor with almost Gamecube numbers at least - but the total between the latter and N64's would still put that generation deep below the aforediscussed sums of Nintendo's Gen 8. And on that note, peculiarly make it the company's only true dual hardware gen to have its handheld technically outsold by the contemporary home console. Of course, few would reasonably fault the otherwise popular handheld that was given less than three years on the market before succession, but Nintendo seems squeamish to this day.

@Ralizah The absolute worst generation for Nintendo sales is probably N64, since there wasn't a real next generation handheld at the time. The Game Boy Color was released and did very well for a hardware revision, but it's only estimated to have sold around 50 million. I guess you could consider the Game Boy Pocket as part of the N64 generation, but then you'd also have to include the New 2DS XL as part of the Switch generation.

@Max_the_German There's a lot wrong with saying Nintendo sales declined since NES/GB. First of all, GB was released 6 years after Famicom and 1 year before Super Famicom in Japan, so it makes no sense to combine NES/GB sales. Also, regardless of whether you consider GBC numbers as a new platform, N64/GBC was still outsold by GCN/GBA. So it turns out that Nintendo's combined console/handheld sales have only declined twice: SNES/GB to N64/GBC, and Wii/DS to WiiU/3DS.

@FirstEmperor for the umpteenth time, people, Color was no more of a "revision" than PS2. Keeping the general design in a bout of "not fixing what wasn't broken" is not a counterargument to the plethora of exclusive software that, unlike with practically everything limited to New 3DS decades later (and by "everything", I mean what could only break into double digits on the back of emulation releases), was honestly unimaginable on Game Boy prior.

@nhSnork Of course it was. GBC's improvements to the GB were an increase in CPU clockspeed (double IIRC), extra RAM, and a color display. That's about as modest an upgrade that the DSi was to the DS. To compare the GBC to the PS2 is utterly laughable.

Drop a few attention-grabbing games between June-December and this thing is going nuclear

Interesting to see that OLED numbers actually increased from 2023 numbers, and Lite numbers were only slightly down. It's just the standard model dropping more rapidly.

@FirstEmperor up to twice the clockspeed was already huge back in 1998 for a device under the "withered technology" umbrella and still having to fall back on single use batteries. And I've already referred to the results while DSi's respective lineup "exclusivity" was pretty much enforced by a camera and/or internet download functionality. I'm hard-pressed to think of any title not using the former that refused to run on my DS Lite in the flash card era. Meanwhile, imagine GTA, Shantae or Heroes of Might & Magic on Game Boy.

A price drop will boost sales I’m sure. Come on Nintendo! You must have enough give in your margins by now.

@nhSnork Double the clockspeed was indeed very small in 1998 seeing as how the Game Boy came out in 1989, and is comparable to other hardware revisions including the DSi, n3DS, and PS4 Pro. And Shantae definitely looks more like a GB game than a GBA game, so it's exactly what I would expect to see on a modest revision of the GB.

Naaah, I gotta agree with @nhSnork … the GBC was another generation. I was there at the time and it really felt like you were playing with the next console, it wasn’t just an “option” to upgrade. If you wanted to play the new software you absolutely needed that console, and the plethora of exclusive games to it was more along of new generation hardware than just a couple of exclusives like DSi or N3DS.

@FirstEmperor an ironic take, seeing as Shantae was initially designed for SNES, a home console GBA is more commonly compared to.

Can't wait to see the ps2 numbers inflate to 200 mil when the switch gets to 166+ million.

@nhSnork Nothing ironic about it. A lot of SNES games received downgraded ports/revisions on the GB(C). Some of them, like Mega Man Xtreme (which was a remix of MMX1&2), even ran on original GB hardware.

The fact that GBC had more exclusive software than DSi or n3DS just means that it was more economically viable to ignore the GB userbase as opposed to the DS or 3DS userbases, and has nothing to do with the type of upgrade the GBC actually was.

N64 console is still my favorite. Best games ever made are on that system.

If they could do a price cut on all three models then they would definitely get more units sold before the next fiscal year. Dropped the Switch Lite to $99, the base Switch to $199, and the Switch OLED to $249 and bundle each one with a free digital copy of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Super Mario Odyssey, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Pikmin 3 Deluxe, or Splatoon 2 and the sales numbers will jump significantly.

If they want they could announce a new Switch Lite OLED model for $149 that had 64gb internal storage over 32gb to get a few more units out the door before the successor launch in 2026. Then in 2025 they could slowly liquidate the remaining stocks of their base Switch and Switch Lite models replacing those with their OLED versions.

This is good, i hope only good things comes next to this!

By this time, next year, the Switch will already be the best selling console of all time. Even if Sony puts makeup on those PS2 numbers hahahaha, we all know the official number is 155 million, Switch will take that crown.

Just for anyone wondering,
141,320,000 Switchs sold equals roughly:
$4,239,6000,000

Since Lite is cheaper and OLED is more expensive, I just used the Base Switch price of $300

Amazing and with no price drop since launch.

I think the Switch family stands a chance to surpass the PS2 and DS in terms of overall unit sales. Which could very well happen this holiday season if there are some excellent price cuts and deals.

Honestly I think if the system stays on the market for another three years even with a successor it will make milestone goals. May need a price cut though.

@mariomaster96 And honestly, I would rather children play Mario Kart 8 DX instead of stuff like Roblox, where they risk being exposed to inappropriate content.

The amount of units sold is going to make it great for collectors in the future!

@FirstEmperor downgraded ports are one thing but Shantae arrived in Gen 5 with a sizeable interconnected world, day/night cycle, flashy transformations and detailed protagonist animations that only helped assert her charm.

And hol'up, Game Boy userbase was "more economically viable to ignore" than the 3DS one it had estimatedly exceeded by 1998 or the NDS one that half the industry apparently deemed to be full of sudoku-crunching casuals? Now I've heard everything.😅

@Savage_Joe I think Game Boy Color was more a desire to capitalize on the post-Pokémon resurgence of the Game Boy and less a stopgap response to the Virtual Boy failing, because I doubt anyone would've cared about such a small upgrade to the GB 9 years after its release if Pokémon hadn't been so huge.

You're right about me ignoring the VB, but I don't think it's really a successor to the GB. Sure, VB is technically portable, but it's not even remotely a handheld so it's more like the VB is Nintendo's first real attempt at a "third pillar."

All the home consoles down at the bottom of the list, and all the handhelds up at the top 😎

So the Switch's 8th year should have as many units sold as the Wii U ever. 😆

@Savage_Joe I did notice that, thank you. Technically I should have said "almost all" in my post, but the goal was to be succinct 😋

The Wii has always been known to be an exceptional case in Nintendo's storied heritage of products regardless.

@nhSnork A sizable interconnected world with a day/night cycle? Yeah, I played Castlevania 2 on NES, what of it?

@TenEighty @Anti-Matter I preferred the Gamecube. Eternal Darkness, Metroid Prime, Mario Sunshine, Wind Waker, Rogue Leader, Skies of Arcadia. Better controller to lol

@FirstEmperor on NES, so did I. On Game Boy, not so much, at least in that particular combination and with that amount of detail on top.

@Scoopz
Well, I played PS2 games for these games:
Dance Dance Revolution games
Para Para Paradise
Guitar Freaks & DrumMania games
Beatmania IIDX games
Pop'n Music games
Keyboardmania 1 & 2
K-1 games
Monster Rancher 3 & 4
Final Fantasy X, X-2 and XII
Spyro games
Dora the explorer games
Crash Bandicoot games
The Sims games
Barbie games
etc.

I'm more 3rd party games centric than 1st party games.
PS2 controller is Perfect design to play DDR games when I don't play with DDR mat.

The PS2 games I played that got HD Remaster on PS3:
Sly Cooper Trilogy
Ratchet & Clank Trilogy

@nhSnork But you did play it on GBC, was was a modest revision of the GB comparable to DSi, n3DS, and PS4 Pro.

@Ulysses The only 3 Nintendo hardware not up there are the Game and Watch, Pokemon Mini, and the Virtual Boy which I assume all of those sold less than a million for those to not make the list.

Weird that(at least in this industry) 90 million units its considered a failure (talking about the 3ds/wiiu era)

@epicgamner I think the same thing everytime they release software sales figures. It's insane. Then I think about all this profit and how much is going into R&D for the next system. Should be amazing.

I know the industry (# of players) has grown tremendously since PS2, DS were released but I think it’s fascinating that Switch have sustained these sales without a permanent price drop.

@Hwatt especially with the ps5 and X/S…. It’s the lower priced console….plus it’s got name recognition with parents….

Considering it's reached 140mil in production still that should be more then enough to break current records sale figures. And a Switch 2 would have to make a appearance sooner or later.

@FirstEmperor several times the core specs of the predecessor doesn't sound all that "modest". Funny to have to point it out in this day and age when so many gamers blindly worship redundant spec bumps otherwise.

@nhSnork If by "several times" you just mean "double" then sure. And obviously words like "modest" are relative; for comparison's sake the DSi had double the clockspeed and quadruple the RAM of the DS.

The only funny thing is your inability to point out anything that separates the GBC, as a hardware upgrade, from the DSi, n3DS, or Ps4 Pro.

To go from one of the worst selling consoles of all time to the 3rd best, minimum, is a phenomenal achievement.

@FirstEmperor Color's verbatim spec multipliers could have probably sent PS4 Pro itself straight into respective Gen 9 territory, but that's ultimately a digression on both our sides indeed. The elephant in the room is still what I've already pointed out comments above - the proud handheld's own indubitably sizeable library as opposed to PS4 Pro's zero exclusives, N3DS's dozen or so (a few of which were indies with GBA/NDS graphics but allegedly built in the engines OG 3DS had lacked support of) and DSi's grand five that unanimously locked the core userbase out with their camera features rather than multiplied specs. And Color even had next gen connectivity to its name - sparsely used in practice, to be fair, but that seems to be the fate of all Nintendo infrared tech by now.😅

And no offence, but your own only counterargument to all that has been an allegation of devs affording to ditch one core userbase over the estimatedly smaller and/or less dedicated others. Meanwhile, even Pokemon Pinball ended up a Gen 5 exclusive despite its franchise having just blown up Game Boy's own twilight years prior.

@Kapten_N They don't need a price cut. Consoles don't stop selling immediately after the next one is launched so based on momentum alone, it already has won. They will already beat the DS by the time the Super Switch comes out by March 2025.

Nearly 22.5% of total 3DS sold was after the launch of the Switch. 16.3% of total DS sold was after the launch of the 3DS and 36.5% of the total GBA sold was after the launch of the DS.

So if we assume a full 10 year run of the Switch and about 15% of final Switch sales are from after the Super Switch launches.
That means an 8 million forecast by FYI March 2026, 5 million by FYI 2027 and 2 million by FYI 2028 at least before they manually kill it off by just not making anymore games or hardware.

Total sales should be about 180million+.

@JohnnyMind Depending on how the Super Switch goes, it might be best to kill it after 10 years so that it doesn't continue to eat into the sales of the Super Switch sales.
Sony was greedy with the PS2 and kept selling it way into the PS3's life cycle. By FY/2008 PS3 was only selling about 10million units to almost 8 million PS2es.

Total sales of the Switch should be about 180million+ anyway assume only 15% more sales was made after the launch of the Super Switch.

Just in comparison:
22.5% of total 3DSes sold was after the launch of the Switch; 16.3% of total DSes sold was after the launch of the 3DS;
36.5% of the total GBAs sold was after the launch of the DS;

@EriXz People don't take handhelds seriously and numbers are all about how you cut the pie anyway. Like one can say Nintendo generations lasts longer so really you could argue the Wii U was a Wii Pro and the 3DS a DS Pro and thus both sold accordingly. The difference being that Nintendo released exclusive content on their Pro devices and always have....even the New 3DS had their own exclusive but it was still a "3DS" by marketing choice.

@FirstEmperor I count the GBC as a separate generation as well. 2x is not really a modest upgrade for a 90s handheld. I think the Wii wasn't even 2x as powerful as the GameCube so there you go but is consider a new generation. The Motion Controls was originally plan for the GameCube as was the 3D screen. It just never came to be till the 3DS and Wii. So honestly, its just how they want to market their product but I agree that Nintendo has only declined twice.

@SNES64DD The 3ds was expensive at launch and the upgrade wasn't that huge. Didn't the 3DS get a price cut when the switch came? It was at least quite cheap and you couldn't play 3DS games on the switch. With the new switch 2 (or what they will call it) it will probably have backward compatibility and only be around 100$ more. The original switch will be 8 years by then. I don't see that it can sell that good at full price like now. Not when the next generation can play the old and new games. If they can play the old games better, then it would be crazy to buy the old system just to save 100$. But if it's a bigger price gap, then it could be a good choice.

All other systems have had price cuts before and not been that old when a new generation had come. Nintendo will sell a lot more if they do price cuts of the Nintendo switch and their oldest games. I don't say they need to drop the price a lot. But just 50$ would be great so that the difference in price between the 2 generations will be bigger. 100$ price cut would be the best. They need to clear their inventories. When the new consoles come, then people will sell their old systems and the second hand market will be cheaper. Nintendo doesn't want to be stranded with a bunch of consoles and they want to sell games

@Kapten_N Not as far as I know. I bought a second New 3DS XL right after the launch of the Switch because I thought I lost my 3DS XL and it was the retail price.

As for selling "that good", I'm just going with recorded stats and came to a 15% extra which is a lower percentage by Nintendo handheld standards. (It works out to be ~23.5 million in 3+ years after the Super Switch launches which is an average of 8 million a year for 3 years).

The GBA sold 30 million of their 82+ million after the launch of the DS and the DS was backwards compatible with the GBA.

The Game Boy and Game Boy Color sold almost 24 million of their 118+millon after the launch of the Game Boy Advance.

The DS sold for 6 more years after the 3DS came out though the last two was more like clearing stock and that moved over 25 million units whilst the 3DS did 17 million after the Switch launched.

So I've actually set the Switch to a pretty modest number. Also selling 180+ million Switches seems "a lot" still but would be about how much they have sold last generation total (181,140,000) and unless they declined again, they have actually done WAY better every generation except the SNES generation.

@Kapten_N Also I believe the 3DS is basically a more powerful portable GameCube and the DS was a more powerful portable N64. The Switch thus is a more powerful portable Wii U (since the Wii was the exception to the generation case and added as a stop gap console).

@SNES64DD The Nintendo DS came only 3-4 years after Nintendo DS and they also had a Gameboy micro. I don't say that the Nintendo switch will drop completely dead. If the new switch is hard to get, then sure, the regular switch could sell. But Nintendo have spoken about that before that they want more consoles from the start so that it is easier to get one in the beginning.

Nintendo switch will be 8 years old. No console have been on the market for so long before a successor have hit the market. They have to reduce the price sometime. And the best thing to do it is before the release of the next system. If they don't drop the price after the release of the next system, then they might sit there with a lot of consoles they have to drop the price on even more.

I would say that it would be good to reduce the price around 3 months in advance. We still don't know when they will announce the next system and release it. They could announce it after the holidays and release it in autumn next year. A 50$ price cut on all the systems would not be a huge deal really. With those old components it can't be that expensive to make. All consoles before have had a price cut somewhere in the life cycle. The Nintendo switch haven't had any. Sure, inflation have hit hard, but there should be room for a 50$ price cut to black Friday and onwards. Or at least sometime next year.

@Kapten_N Well the typical strategy of most companies is to have a 3rd console out when the 1st generation is dead. We see this with PlayStation which stopped selling in 2005 and PlayStation 3 launched in 2006.
Similarly, the PlayStation 4 came out in 2013 when they finally stopped selling the PlayStation 2.
PlayStation 5 seems like an exception as it came out in 2020 when the PlayStation 3 stopped selling in 2015 but we know the PlayStation 4 Pro came out in 2016.
Simply put, this is the release strategy of most gaming companies to pick off stragglers who may not have upgraded yet.

Nintendo is very similar in that regard and actually likes to release a lot of models. The DS stopped selling in 2017 and the 3DS in 2021 which was when the Switch and OLED Models came out.

And actually the GameBoy lasted 9 years before the Color. Color, Advance, DS were all about 3 years apart. DSi was 4 from the DS but the 3DS was also 3 from the DSi.

@Kapten_N Anyway, my point is that the Switch has sold enough. Their focus should be on the Super Switch and they aren't rushing to sell more Switch units or clear stock. They can take 5 years to sell that 15% or so. It depends on what their goals are with the 1st Switch Generation but 180-185+ would be a minimum target I would say which seems pretty achievable to me without a cut. They can always release new models like an OLED Lite and then do a price cut but I see no point to doing when the Lite is being outsold by the premium OLED.

Edit:
Just to add some numbers:
FY3 Switch -------- Lite ----------- OLED
Total 93,470,000 23,540,000 24,340,000

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2024 03,860,000 02,520,000 09,320,000
2023 06,140,000 02,620,000 09,220,000
2022 13,560,000 03,700,000 05,800,000
2021 20,320,000 08,510,000
2020 14,830,000 06,190,000
2019 16,970,000
2018 15,050,000
2017 02,740,000

Notice how the OLED is their best selling model now and is doing better then last year or launch year. They know consumers are ready for a premium product so no need to drop the price when the next one (which is more a Switch replacement) comes out.

Edit 2: My prediction for 2025. They have said they want to sell 13.5 million units.
FY3 Switch -------- Lite ----------- OLED

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2025 02,500,000 01,500,000 09,500,000

@SNES64DD Still, i can't see that it will sell all that good when the next generation console is released if they don't do a price cut. All the other consoles you have mentioned have had price cuts on both systems and games sometime during the lifespan. Nintendo switch haven't had any price cut except their small deals during black Friday.

When the next system is out, i think they will do a price cut of some degree. An 8 year old system shouldn't have the same price as it did when it launched. If they do a price cut, then they could still sell Nintendo switch as the cheaper alternative. But just 100$ in difference will probably make people go for the next system instead if it can play all the regular Nintendo switch games. That or buy a regular Nintendo switch second hand. The Nintendo switch will be cheaper on the second hand market when the next system is released. That could harm the sale too.

If they do a price cut i can see that the switch could sell 2 years after the launch of the new system since it will be a cheaper option.

@Kapten_N Price cuts are harmful for product because you're basically saying your product is "worth less" now then it did before. When you account inflation into it, that make it even worst because there is a huge price difference with the new product. You end up not selling either.

The reverse mentality to what you said actually works better as they will be driving consumers to buy the Super Switch by not dropping the price of the Switch cause its only $100 more. If the difference is $150, they might re-think.

Think of it this way:
Would you get a New 3DS XL in 2020 for US$150 or a Switch for $300 and then actually continue to buy games for it like you would? What about $50 in 2025?
I wouldn't buy it and if I did, then what's the point of the Switch as a sequel again? (Which I should add they have stated is another pillar.)

All that causes is to make me rethink if I want to get any consoles cause one feels expensive compared to the other and the other feels dated.

That is the last thing they want.

I don't know if you saw my edits, but if they wanted a price drop they would have done so in 2023 when the Switch sales halved so it not just about moving units. They obviously knew this and have been cutting production of the OG Switch and Lite.

Their goal this year is 13.5 million units.

If the OLED takes 9.5 million of those which is a consistent number, it doesn't leave much room for the Switch and Lite. Why would they need a permanent price drop to sell like maybe 2.5 million Switch in a whole year and 1.5 million Lite?

The Wii U at full price sold better then that.

If you want a sequel to a product, the goal is to actually not drop the prices. That's why Nintendo evergreen titles outsell titles that drop in price after its been on market for X years.

Because what you're basically saying is our product is worth the price even after X years in but now we believe we have a better product which is worth even more not because its "new".

Whether the consumer buys it and which one is up to them. You're not trying to blackmail them into either one.

@Kapten_N I'm going to add that a "price drop" would have also signalled to fans that you want to EXTEND the life of the product known as a Switch. That or its to meet sales targets when it falls short and recover some money.

It means, I now feel ripped off if I already bought the product especially if recently.
It means, I have to wait a bit longer if it wasn't the product I was looking for.
It also means they are trying to fight AGAINST market trends which is saying your product is declining. That's is actually anti-consumer.

Its like anti-aging cream for companies.

You're basically saying, no I'm not going to let the Switch die even if you're not buying it.

Edit:
If the Super Switch comes out and the Switch sales drops off a cliff. Its good news for them. It means people REALLY like their new product a lot.
If the Super Switch comes out and the Switch sales continues to sell solid numbers. Its good news for them too. It means people still like their old product despite their new product.
Even if a disaster happens and the Super Switch comes out and the Switch sales gain momentum again (like the Wii did when the Wii U came out). It means people are saying they like their old products better meaning their new one has failed which is still fine and recoverable if they don't do a price drop.
Why?

Because you've not corner yourself.

If your new product failed and you've just dropped the price of the old one. How is that going to work out for you?

That's how companies die by making dumb decisions like that.

@Cut3Panda-SNES64DD

The price difference (if the rumor are true) will only be 50$ between the switch oled and the new switch. I can't see that happening. Why would anyone choose a 8 year old console instead of the new one? The risk is that they would need to do a bigger price cut if they stand with to many consoles. I think the margins should be good that they can do a price cut of 50. It will be a price drop on the second hand market and then more people could choose to buy it second hand instead of new.

I don't think people will be upset if they do a price cut when the console is 8 years old. They have had 8 years to buy it and they could have bought it during black Friday.

The next switch will probably sell very good if the rumours about it are true even if it's expensive. People have waited very long for this system. They have at least 100 million people with the Nintendo switch right now that might want to upgrade. They wouldn't care if it's a small price cut of the old system. They already bought it years ago and want the new one.

Nintendo knows when to do a price cut of the old system, because that will happen. But it can off course be after the release of the new system

@Kapten_N I think it'll be $400 as well but not everyone has the OLED or considers it. The sequel is more a replacement for the OG Switch more so then the OLED which some people might still hold onto and not upgrade immediately.

By the time Super Switch comes out which will likely be March 2025. The console would be close to meeting the 13.5 million units they need already. That means next year, the bar is only about 7 million Switch or so for three models.

No one will be upset and you can believe what you want but if you think Nintendo will do a price drop just to sell a couple of millions units then go ahead.

I just don't see why they feel there is a purpose to do so. What benefits does that even bring?

If the Switch doesn't become the highest selling console of all time now, I think Nintendo should actually be slightly ashamed. It only needs to sell like 15-16 million more units in the next years or two. Surely it should be a formality. And surely Nintendo should actually have this goal firmly in mind just for the sheer hell of bragging rights too.