Nintendo has announced that the highly coveted Nintendo Switch has managed to sell 10 million consoles worldwide, with the feat surprisingly being accomplished slower in comparison to the PS4 – though the PS4 never had as drastic of issues regarding shortages.
Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aimé commented on the milestone:
“As you can see in people’s living rooms, on a plane or riding the subway, fans all over the world can enjoy playing Nintendo Switch wherever they go. The response from fans has been great, and we’re doing our very best to satisfy demand during the holiday shopping season.”
Sony reached 10 million sales with their PS4 only 270 days after its launch, the Nintendo Switch however accomplished this 284 days post-launch; the minuscule difference seemingly rather negligible, though other extraneous factors such as shortages have not been taken into consideration.
Despite the abundance of sales, it seems buyers are not particularly interested in the Switch’s portability (which was touted as one of the system’s central features)…
I plan to buy switch only to play Skyrim on the go..
The biggest problem facing developers porting to the Switch is the cost of Nintendos cartridges. We’re seeing a bunch of games requiring you to download the rest of the game before playing. Games like LA Noire, Doom, WWE 2k18 etc.
They need to employ some heavy duty compression if need be, or downgrade the textures.
Because at the moment we’re seeing a lot of rush job ports that run and look like s♥♥t with stupidly high file sizes.
This isn’t surprising at all. As someone who has been gaming since the Atari 2600 days, the Switch has had the best first year line up of games in gaming history. Without question. And it’s been consistently good since launch with no draughts during this last 9 months.
Also, regarding the article’s mention of people not being interested in the console’s portability, that is completely false. Nintendo has presented the data, and more people actually play the Switch in portable mode than docked mode. And the vast majority use both modes equally (which is the selling point).
Your praises do not match with the reality of the Switch only having two worthwhile games.
salty sonygger detected.
Your mother is a n♥♥♥♥r.
meanwhile mines just collecting dusk since i was done with zelda months ago….
Sell it. If you time it right to those artificial shortages you could even make a profit.
Do I get a Blavatsky if I order?