Nintendo Switch is selling significantly faster than PlayStation 4 – can it beat PlayStation 2 and Nintendo DS?

According to the latest statistics, the hybrid platform Switch from Nintendo noticeably bypasses Playstation 4 by the dynamics of sales. From March 2017 to June 2023, it sold 89.04 million consoles around the world.… The set-top box from Sony has found 10 million fewer buyers in the same time period since its debut in 2013.

Renowned analyst Daniel Ahmad compiled a comparative chart using official data on console sales from open sources. He demonstrates that Switch bypasses even Wii and Playstation 2 – only diverged faster Nintendo ds

According to forecasts of Nintendo, by the end of this year Switch will bypass Wii, whose sales have stopped at around 101.63 million consoles, and by March 2023 it will reach ~ 110 million units.

The big question now is whether the Switch will be able to reach the level of the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo DS, which have found 150 million buyers at the end of their lifecycles? Japanese analyst Hideki Yasuda from the agency Ace Research Institute considers, what “yes.

Nintendo itself says the Switch has just entered the middle of its lifecycle. The company still hasn’t made a single permanent price list for the console, and plans to release a new model with an OLED screen in the fall for $ 349.99.

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Top 10 best-selling consoles in history:

  1. PlayStation 2 – 155 million
  2. Nintendo DS – 154.02 million
  3. Game Boy + Game Boy Color – 118.69 million
  4. PlayStation 4 – 116.4 million
  5. PlayStation – 102.49 million
  6. Wii – 101.63 million
  7. Nintendo Switch – 89.04 million
  8. PlayStation 3 – 85 million
  9. Xbox 360 – 84 million
  10. Game Boy Advance – $ 81.51 million

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