Nintendo Switch has just surpassed the Wii’s total sales in the United States
Nintendo Switch has just surpassed the Wii’s total sales in the United States
by alinamelane
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RZA3663
Nobody saw that coming. I remember everyone was hoping for at least 20 million, and with 40 million being the high end when the system was still the NX. Good for Nintendo. Print that money!
Riomegon
It’s just a fad, it’ll peter out soon enough.
Paperdiego
So how many units has it sold in the US?
ModsR4Pussy
Still pretty impressive
renorosales
Worldwide sales of the Switch (129 million) can potentially surpass the PS2 (155 million) if Nintendo decides to keep selling it (at a reduced price) alongside the next console.
Edit: numbers
SeventhGenSuperior
Granted, I was an edgy asshole kid back then, but I really didn’t think the Switch would be as big as it has become. I hopped on the wagon in 2020 and have loved it since, although it’s not my main console. I mostly use it for Mario, DK, Zelda, and certain ports. It’s also great for RPGs.
GurusunYT
I don’t think it’s quite as big as the Wii, but it makes sense that it’s surpassed it in sales with there being multiple models and because it makes sense for families to buy more than one.
menonono
I bought a switch day 1 to play BOTW. It was great, I have no regrets. I played Smash Ultimate and Animal Crossing and enjoyed myself, but I got older and got less time to play games.
Now, I don’t really play on my switch anymore, and I have a steam deck so I don’t really find a need to play on switch anymore.
Nevertheless, I think the Switch hits that perfect in-between for everyone. I think just about anyone can get a switch and enjoy it. The games on it are good and the portability of it makes it available to most people even if they’re on the go. This system totally deserves these numbers. I also believe that we will begin to see these numbers more often because of just how accepted globally gaming is, and how accessible it is as well.
Edit: I have no idea why me praising the switch on a Nintendo subreddit is controversial, but whatever.
azurianlight
God I hated working at Circuit City when the Wii was hot! People really thought the empty display boxes had a Wii in them! Or worse when we were supposed to have them in stock and we didn’t those times got heated.
Mysterions
Well deserved. Probably the best Nintendo of all time.
Put_It_All_On_Blck
Joycon revenue exceeds that of the Switch.
Nintendo just keeps shipping defective defective controllers knowing nobody wants to wait nearly a month to get theirs fixed, and often sending back someone else’s refurbished controllers, and not even the colors you sent in.
morphic-monkey
Makes sense to me. I think the Switch has managed to cater to a pretty wide range of use cases for video game consoles, in a way that other machines haven’t been able to do. I also think the library on Switch has been far better than the Wii and Wii U combined, in both breadth and depth.
Adi_San
Nintendo does always well when its back is against the wall and tend to be complacent and greedy when they are in a dominant position.
Riahisama
It’s crazy how we thought the Wii was an anomaly and that nothing would come close to it in terms of sales
mgwair11
I kinda stepped away from gaming during the entire Wii U scare. My friend showed me his launch Switch in spring 2017 and I basically had an epiphany of how this system was everything that I wanted as a kid who came from having a Gameboy advanced sp, GameCube, ds lite, and Wii. Later got a Switch to play Minecraft and Mariokart that summer and the guy at the Target Electronics counter asked “and your getting Zelda too right?” The shear tone of assumption sold me despite me never having played Zelda before (they were just these characters in Smash Melee to me lol).
6 years later and the Switch turned me into a massive gamer again (and into a massive Zelda fan as well). Playing BOTW, Mariokart, and Minecraft in summer of 2017, and seeing all the ads Nintendo were using to market the Switch and Super Mario Odyssey at E3 that summer…I was confident it would eventually end up overcoming even the Wii’s numbers and potentially the DS & PS2 figures all the way *back then*.
I feel that a lot of Nintendo fans even today still hold back their expectations due to the Wii U and previous other Nintendo consoles that burned them so hard (namely the GC and N64). The Switch is literally insane though. It’s lightning in a bottle if you ask me. Now at 129M, I feel it is only a matter of time before it goes over 155M.
PrinceOfBrains
As someone who was working at EB Games during the Wii generation, I have to say this is awesome, but surprising to see – the Wii (and the DS, to a larger extent) was *so* ubiquitous, it was almost a return to the NES days where everyone just had “a Nintendo” at their house, and it was hard to imagine any future Nintendo system beating it.
Glad to be wrong in this case, and the Switch deserves every bit of its success.
EnergyTurtle23
Hold up, cause I’m confused. The Switch surpassed the Wii’s sales numbers months ago! So why is this being reported as if it just happened? Most recently it overtook the combined sales of the Game Boy and Game Boy Color, and is on track to surpass the PS2’s sales potentially by the end of this year.
youtharcade
I only ever bought one Wii (at launch!) and I’m currently sitting at like 8 lifetime Switches (I’ve had 3 and my kids and wife had each had one) I still think it’s one of the best systems – not in terms of power of course but due to the sheer amount of games I enjoy going to the system. I feel like Nintendo hasn’t seen this much third party support since the SNES days which I think assisted in its success. I’m interested in seeing what they do next – if they can start closing the gap on power so newer games can be ported to the system that would be awesome. I know Nintendo often charts their own course and what not but hopefully this generation shows them that they are on the right track.
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Nobody saw that coming. I remember everyone was hoping for at least 20 million, and with 40 million being the high end when the system was still the NX. Good for Nintendo. Print that money!
It’s just a fad, it’ll peter out soon enough.
So how many units has it sold in the US?
Still pretty impressive
Worldwide sales of the Switch (129 million) can potentially surpass the PS2 (155 million) if Nintendo decides to keep selling it (at a reduced price) alongside the next console.
Edit: numbers
Granted, I was an edgy asshole kid back then, but I really didn’t think the Switch would be as big as it has become. I hopped on the wagon in 2020 and have loved it since, although it’s not my main console. I mostly use it for Mario, DK, Zelda, and certain ports. It’s also great for RPGs.
I don’t think it’s quite as big as the Wii, but it makes sense that it’s surpassed it in sales with there being multiple models and because it makes sense for families to buy more than one.
I bought a switch day 1 to play BOTW. It was great, I have no regrets. I played Smash Ultimate and Animal Crossing and enjoyed myself, but I got older and got less time to play games.
Now, I don’t really play on my switch anymore, and I have a steam deck so I don’t really find a need to play on switch anymore.
Nevertheless, I think the Switch hits that perfect in-between for everyone. I think just about anyone can get a switch and enjoy it. The games on it are good and the portability of it makes it available to most people even if they’re on the go. This system totally deserves these numbers. I also believe that we will begin to see these numbers more often because of just how accepted globally gaming is, and how accessible it is as well.
Edit: I have no idea why me praising the switch on a Nintendo subreddit is controversial, but whatever.
God I hated working at Circuit City when the Wii was hot! People really thought the empty display boxes had a Wii in them! Or worse when we were supposed to have them in stock and we didn’t those times got heated.
Well deserved. Probably the best Nintendo of all time.
Joycon revenue exceeds that of the Switch.
Nintendo just keeps shipping defective defective controllers knowing nobody wants to wait nearly a month to get theirs fixed, and often sending back someone else’s refurbished controllers, and not even the colors you sent in.
Makes sense to me. I think the Switch has managed to cater to a pretty wide range of use cases for video game consoles, in a way that other machines haven’t been able to do. I also think the library on Switch has been far better than the Wii and Wii U combined, in both breadth and depth.
Nintendo does always well when its back is against the wall and tend to be complacent and greedy when they are in a dominant position.
It’s crazy how we thought the Wii was an anomaly and that nothing would come close to it in terms of sales
I kinda stepped away from gaming during the entire Wii U scare. My friend showed me his launch Switch in spring 2017 and I basically had an epiphany of how this system was everything that I wanted as a kid who came from having a Gameboy advanced sp, GameCube, ds lite, and Wii. Later got a Switch to play Minecraft and Mariokart that summer and the guy at the Target Electronics counter asked “and your getting Zelda too right?” The shear tone of assumption sold me despite me never having played Zelda before (they were just these characters in Smash Melee to me lol).
6 years later and the Switch turned me into a massive gamer again (and into a massive Zelda fan as well). Playing BOTW, Mariokart, and Minecraft in summer of 2017, and seeing all the ads Nintendo were using to market the Switch and Super Mario Odyssey at E3 that summer…I was confident it would eventually end up overcoming even the Wii’s numbers and potentially the DS & PS2 figures all the way *back then*.
I feel that a lot of Nintendo fans even today still hold back their expectations due to the Wii U and previous other Nintendo consoles that burned them so hard (namely the GC and N64). The Switch is literally insane though. It’s lightning in a bottle if you ask me. Now at 129M, I feel it is only a matter of time before it goes over 155M.
As someone who was working at EB Games during the Wii generation, I have to say this is awesome, but surprising to see – the Wii (and the DS, to a larger extent) was *so* ubiquitous, it was almost a return to the NES days where everyone just had “a Nintendo” at their house, and it was hard to imagine any future Nintendo system beating it.
Glad to be wrong in this case, and the Switch deserves every bit of its success.
Hold up, cause I’m confused. The Switch surpassed the Wii’s sales numbers months ago! So why is this being reported as if it just happened? Most recently it overtook the combined sales of the Game Boy and Game Boy Color, and is on track to surpass the PS2’s sales potentially by the end of this year.
I only ever bought one Wii (at launch!) and I’m currently sitting at like 8 lifetime Switches (I’ve had 3 and my kids and wife had each had one) I still think it’s one of the best systems – not in terms of power of course but due to the sheer amount of games I enjoy going to the system. I feel like Nintendo hasn’t seen this much third party support since the SNES days which I think assisted in its success. I’m interested in seeing what they do next – if they can start closing the gap on power so newer games can be ported to the system that would be awesome. I know Nintendo often charts their own course and what not but hopefully this generation shows them that they are on the right track.
Best console