Switch 2 Storms Towards Its Forecast Target With 17.37 Million Units Sold

Oh wow! 17 million units sold? The Switch 2 is cooking so far.

I did my bit, bought a copy of MP4 for myself and one for my nephew overseas. He’s only 10, so this will be his first Metroid game. Fingers crossed we get another Metroid Prime game before he is an adult.

Switch 2 will sell over 20 million units within its first year... That's insane!
And with only Mario Kart as a system seller. Whenever an exclusive Pokemon, a Super Mario, a Zelda, a Smash Bros and an Animal Crossing come out, it'll sell like hotcakes!

I'm very glad, it's a fantastic console, I love it. Well deserved.

I continue to laugh at all those poor saps who remain of the opinion that Nintendo is doomed. The numbers tell a completely different story. Imagine what happens once the big hitters come, like a new Zelda!

@JHDK Metroid deserves that 9/10 score, what are you talking about? It's an AMAZING game!

Those are some seriously impressive stats. Imagine what impact a new 3D Mario game would have, in combination with the Galaxy movie.

@the_beaver Glad you enjoyed it and of course scores are subjective but to me it was a Metroid game in name alone and barely worth a 5/10 at best. I'd rather replay Other M.

Switch 2 already outsold the Wii U. Okay that's not hard, but.. within one year!

Seeing the sales doing great is really satisfying.

Seriously impressive.

End of the day Metroid Prme 4 could have been the best reviewed game of all time and still likely not sold much more than it has. It is the ultimate example of overhyped game series online that does not translate to the real world. Always been the case sadly.

Phew. Those numbers are insane, and they have yet to reveal what’s up their dungarees for the big guns. No mention of Prime4, but we’ll get the numbers when there’s an updated list of Switch2 software sales. Good going Nintendo, I’m absolutely loving Mario Kart World, have yet to play anything else on my Switch2 in the meantime because I’m having so much fun with it.

@JHDK Holding out hope for an HD remaster! Come to think of it, there is that rumored Direct coming up...

MP 4 Beyond is very good, but not enough deep. This aside, it's sad for the series selling so bad, it could be a disappearing. I don't see any joy in this. An excellent MP could exist, as another different 3D episode, ambitious, but with that kind of score, I'll be dead before it happens, maybe, so I'm sad. 8 years and a half for this, after such a hype...
Other miss, Drag x drive and NS2 Welcome Tour. A sad bilan.

@SBandy1 Agreed.

It's kind of weird, honestly. I haven't bought it, but I will. I was planning to play some of the other games first, for one thing.
But did MP4 crack 1 million?

@AussieMcBucket

Maybe Switch 1 and 2 combined it did but seemingly not as individual versions before the end of December which these figures apply to.

Could have by now though.

@Porco What a disaster for Nintendo, right?

@SBandy1 Okay, maybe, yeah. Because they typically only call out million sellers.

I could have sworn someone said sales ground to a halt in October…? I’ll have a look and report back.

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Sales

@JHDK That's strange, to me it felt a lot like a Metroid Prime experience (more 3 than 1, though). I enjoyed it throughly, and I recommend it to all Metroid fans out there. And I played all the games in the (fantastic) series.

My list as of now would be:
-Metroid Prime Remastered
-Metroid Zero Mission
-Metroid Dread
-Metroid Prime 4
-Metroid Prime 3
-Metroid Fusion
-Super Metroid
-Metroid Other M
-Metroid Samus Returns
-Metroid Prime 2 (great game too, but the only one I couldn't finish...)

As expected. All those extrapolating from the Black Friday Sales figures were dead wrong. 17.3 million in under a year, with such a premium price point. Wowsers Nintendo is rolling in money. Let's hope this year can keep up the momentum!

@SBandy1 MP4 has been reduced from £49.99 to £31.50 here in the UK, since 4 weeks after its release. So that’ll help push up the numbers. I was really surprised to see such a deep discount on a first party IP so soon

So a couple of big first party titles and maybe the momentum will persist for 2nd and 3rd year. Certainly 3rd party will keep sales ticking over too

Cool that they mention the sell-through numbers. I still feel bad for contributing to the sales, though.

Once again this really paints a picture of how colossal of a failure the Wii U actually was. This poor thing only managed about 13 million consoles sold in FIVE YEARS while the Switch 2 has casually beaten that in six months.

I feel like Nintendo counting Switch 1 and 2 SKUs seperately hurts games like Metroid. You can see they count them separately with Legends Z-A for example.

For all we know Prime 4 did sell over a million units combined but it didn't sell over a million on each platform meaning it didn't get reported on at all.

@WiltonRoots and fell off a cliff. And the trend is undeniable

@Theghostofkeithmoon9 mp4 switch 2 has never been £31.50 here. Lowest was just over £36

@jsty3105 looking forward to hearing the latest spin from the usual suspects...all that crying, all those man hours typing out negative comments - and for what.

@jsty3105 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nintendo-Metriod-Prime-4-Beyond/dp/B0FR9RSVY2

He's talking about Switch 1 version.