Will Switch Become the BEST-SELLING Console of ALL TIME? 

You are not taking into consideration how piracy in places like South America was crucial make the PS2 have insane popularity and longevity

Nintendo is cheating too since many people buy multiple Switchs

​@@bootyscratcher7634they cost about $300 around that time. Same with the PS2.

​@@bootyscratcher7634 Did you forget the concept of time?

@@carcinogen60yearsago I’m 13

The Switch has been out for 6 years and 3 months (6 years).

@@themegatonmenace1224 exactly ty

So basically, if the Switch is to outsell the PS2, then the Switch 2 must be 599 US Dollars.

@@cubedmelons876 and developers have to keep making exclusives only for Switch like Persona 4 on PS2

139 million now

Someone clearly hates ps2

Imagine if the switch wasn’t out since 2017 almost 6 years just like the old ps2 ps3 came out in 2006 the pandemic helped the switch out a crap ton also lots of people indoors too and they haven’t made any more consoles for a while you’d think they would be the best selling handled by now

So true! People will always hate on the king, throwing logical fallacies this way and that. Nintendo's sick dude.

DS got their because of shovelware. And still running off the gimmick hype Era of the Wii. Switch has a better chance though.

This is so true. My whole family used our PS2 as a DVD player. We would just take in the living room whenever we needed to.

I'd like to see more left field thumbnail choices like that, hah. I've been quoting them for the past hour since seeing this. "If I die, tell my wife... hello."

I don’t feel strongly about it

I hate it. 😂 I miss the puppet not gonna lie. 🥹

I hate these filthy Neutrals, Kif. With enemies you know where they stand but with Neutrals, who knows? It sickens me.

​@TheSchaef47 and who would you attack with a giant pair of scissors, The yarn people of Nilon 4

Nintendo's current projection for the Switch (which have been fairly accurate) is 13.5 million for this fiscal year, which ends on March 31, 2025. That means by next March, the Switch will have outsold the DS. Another year on the market, maybe a post-Switch 2 price drop, and it easily clears the PS2.

If the Switch's sales carry on their current trajectory and the new console releases at the projected holiday 2024 season, it will come down to the wire.

I doubt the Switch lasts 10 years as a flagship console, but it will probably last 8 years as one. I’m thinking we will see a Switch successor in 2025 when sales sit at around 150 million units, and then Switch stick around as a budget console for a few more years and barely crosses 156-157 million total lifetime sales.

The original gb/gbc did that

@@staringcorgi6475 I hope you’re right. I would love to see Switch be a flagship for 10 years.

it still is insane to me that the ps2 sold so much because people who played that generation seem so much more nostalgic for it's rivals (Nintendo 64, 1st Xbox) Edit: Gamecube, not 64

Not me! I have too many fond memories of the PS2 to count. My favorite console ever. Though I figure a lot of its sales were from people who wanted a DVD player that could play games as a bonus. Or people who didnt play that many games who just bought the biggest hits, and so don't go on forms discussing their nostalgia. Whereas you were more likely to be a hardcore fan if you were going for a gamecube or even xbox.

Especially since most people buy 2 switches or in some cases collectors buy more

​@@stormhought Gamecube was the PS2, Xbox rival not N64.

I think we'll get a 2d Mario (though I'd rather 2d or 3d Wario), a cross gen Metroid Prime 4, TotK dlc, either a Zelda spin off game or remaster (probably a port of WWHD with a beefed up port of TPHD coming to the next console eventually), another smaller scale Kirby or a Yoshi game, a few games like boxboy or pushmo and something from platinum. I also see a price cut no more than £30 for the oled model depending on how it sells this year.

that would be really nice

Let’s hope Nintendo release a new DK game on switch we’ve been waiting 9 years

I hope the Big Ape can get a new game.

Oh man, could you imagine a DK64 reboot??? I know the original game is super flawed but imagine a modernized, fully fleshed out DK game in 3D... That'd definitely have a lot of talk and be a big console mover imo

WOOWOO BIG APE 💪💪

It's not a crazy concept at all. Steam has massive sales all the time. I rarely buy any games at full price.

It's really just about the dvd thing. It's not the deep

Honestly, price cuts don't really push console sales. If the demand isn't there at the original price, why would they buy it with a price cut. What sold the PS2 was all the third party companies jumping ship to the playstation brand and the gaming media helping to push that.

​@@mr_m4613 well that's not how economics works 😂. Any product could have potential demand as long as they cut the price at least 1%. Like a 100 dollars PS2 slim is a perfect and relatively cheap gift to kids. I remember I wanted a GameCube but my uncle got me a PS2 for this reason (it was cheap). I played some games had decent fun with it, playing sonic games and Naruto Ultimate 4. Then again, PS2 was popular in my country because it was easy to hacked and have all the library.

@Obscure Gun poor build quality?? your family must’ve been pretty rough with it lol, ps2s could withstand bombs. I’ve had multiple throughout my life and they’ve always preformed great even after 20+ years

What was that?

@@Usith I believe it’s in reference to the ripped Arlo that appears on the thumbnail of the video where he addresses his memes.

every time someone hopes nintendo won't screw up the chance of them screwing up increases by 0.1%. This chance resets upon a console launch.

They had to give attractive deals like that because their system sucked and no one wanted it. Switch can stand on it's own so they have to reason to discount their best games.

Part of me kinda wants their next console to fail for this exact reason lol. Having a large install base, you can easily cater the bare minimum to the lowest common denominator. On the other hand, with a failure like the Wii U, you absolutely have to cater to your core supporters, as that's your entire install base. I really dislike the way Nintendo has changed with its consumer practices during the Switch era.

@@phatnecktm3783 same. Like imagine charging $60 for a wii port that's only new feature is locked behind a $25 pay wall. I knew that it would have nothing new when they started advertising that you can use buttons. Like wow you can control the game, what a feature!

That was an end of life cycle thing you’re talking about

The lack of themes

I wouldn't call it a cheat code. It was the sequel to the PS1 which sold 102 million units (more than the Wii) in the 90s, a decade before. PS2 released before Gamecube and XBOX. The major console that was out before was the Dreamcast which the PS2 murdered. It had the biggest and best library of any console on the market at the time. Love the Gamecube obviously but unless you like first party Nintendo games the Gamecube didn't do much for you. Gamecube had lower storage and unappealing design(to most people) and XBOX was risky and uncertain. The PS2 is just the best one. Also it could play DVDs.

I mean having the best selling console and two of the top 4 all time sounds pretty marketable to me. Besides it’s not like they’d legit take a loss is would just be lower profits on hardware after the first year of a price cut but they could easily make that up in software sales and dlc especially if that means more people are still getting the console. It would be a proper send off going into whatever comes next (depending on what exactly that is)

@@nanoff815The only console in history that qualifies as having a ‘cheat code’ is the Nintendo Wii and the gimmicky motion controls. When even your grandparents want to try Wii sports, you know something’s up 😂 You could also argue that the Switch is a bit of a cheat code too. They combined home console with handheld. Especially when you consider that the DS sold 150million units. Nintendo have always done their own thing, and I’m sure they’ll continue to do that. Sometimes it pays off, sometimes it doesn’t.

Even if it doesn't, man what a run it's had!

@Obscure Gun i mean lets face it the prior console was a literal disaster also they ported the life out of that console to kick off the switch.

@@stashallemagne4488huge achievement

Yeah, I think a price drop for the holiday season and a decent holiday title will do wonders for sales. It's hard to justify the current price with how outdated the hardware is

$100 is ridiculously low for a console in this economy

I think just not upping the price is a discount considering inflation. I had to choose what to do is to re release the Mario bundle thing where the Switch includes 1 digital game from a selection. That's a good deal still

@@jeveritt8398 exactly, so now parents will buy multiple switch lites for each of their kid, and Nintendo fans will get the switch oled lite!

honestly I think a price drop would do it- Shit, I want to get my brother one lol

well i got news for you

Probably helped by its timing, Sega left the hardware business, Nintendo were late to the generation. Microsoft weren't established. PlayStation 3 is probably the worst selling PlayStation because it had tough competition from Nintendo and Microsoft, while PS4 made up ground.

@@bri1085 PlayStation 3 didn't need help from Nintendo and Microsoft to be the worst selling PlayStation console, Sony shot themselves in the foot at the PS3's launch by being late, being overpriced (never forget Ken Kutaragi saying people should want to work two jobs to have one), and having no games. And it took them years, the cheaper slim model and the new Kevin Butler ad campaign to finally turn things around. Although if we're talking about the worst selling PlayStation, I'm pretty sure the Vita has that "crown"

Yeah the PS2 was clearly seen by developers and the gaming audience as lead console even if it technologically wasn't so. Which was important given how development worked following the early 3D era hiccups of the prior gen. The Switch by contrast exists in an era in which it can be considered a handheld, or a companion console by many, and it has allowed it (along with other factors ie the pandemic slowing the industries rollover to the next generation) to sell confidently and more developers exist capably at the smaller level with the tools to bring games over (such as the Unreal Engine 4). In a era like the PS2, the PS2 was the one you arguably had to port to even if your goal was to bank on other hardware as lead platform and it often wasn't easy. As a result unless you were a weirdo like me who could justify the gamecube/xbox as the multiplayer console I had to have alongside what the PS2 offered, most people had one console and it was the PS2. People pointed out the DVD thing as a big primary reason, forgetting it also offered backwards compatibility for the already robust PS1 library. Plus pricing adjustment helps. The Switch in modern day at 300 dollars is much more palatable then 23 years ago at that same price point for PS2 (520+ dollars with adjustment) as is the average value of games. And even then, the PS1/2 was seen as a better deal then cartridge users experiences from the prior eras on a value basis. The Switch doesn't have the pricing aspect for developers (price per cart vs price per disc) but that hasn't hurt it it appears due in part to the digital era.

​@@mjc0961I think the PS TV was worse than the vita, but the difference is probably marginal

There's a lot more competition in terms of platforms nowadays. PC and mobile gaming is becoming mainstream, and Xbox and Playstation are the consoles of choice for a lot of people. It's not like when the PS2 had a monopoly on gaming.

Would love to pick up an OLED in addition to my 2020 switch, but they would definitely have to do a decent price drop to get me to cave

​@Anna Bigger screen, internal memory, battery, colors and black levels. Also an ethernet jack on the dock. Get the OLED, it's great!

I’ve really gotten hooked on demos too on switch, especially for ports. Cool to experience a game I almost certainly wouldn’t pay for but never got to play as an exclusively Nintendo console owner

The thing people forget tho is way more people game today than 13 years ago. Gamer culture is just normal now, it wasn’t back then

The Switch is filling the role of home console AND handheld. When you consider that the Nintendo DS sold 150million units, I’d say it’s not really a fair comparison.

@@casedistortedyea but a lot of people bought it because it was also a dvd player, it would’ve sold less if it didn’t have those capabilities

It could probably move a few units at least since it is the first new Pikmin game on the console. Other than price cuts, that's the only thing Nintendo can do to move more units. Bring us more new games in beloved franchises that haven't appeared on Switch yet. A new 2D Mario or Donkey Kong could help since all we have are Wii U ports there as well so far, new F-Zero or Star Fox could help. Maybe Tomodachi Life. These franchises individually might not move too many, but all of them combined coupled with a price cut. Then maybe we'll get somewhere.

It will, if they do a blowout advertisement the way the pushed tears of the kingdom it definitely will.

Are we forgetting about Metroid Prime 4? Assuming it does come out, I can see it becoming the final system seller, considering it's been hyped since 2017.

@CubedMelons I'm 90% certain Prime 4 will not be releasing on Switch at all and has moved to an exclusive on the next system. That's why we haven't seen anything on it yet. Edit: But yes, if Metroid Prime 4 does remain a Switch exclusive, then that could be a good system seller. We already have Metroid on Switch, so I think a lot of the people that want Metroid Prime 4 may have already bought a Switch for Metroid Dread. But there are a lot of Metroid Prime fans who aren't interested in 2D Metroid, so I'm sure it'll still move some units.

We literally went from their worst selling home console to best. Like bro I still remember those Wii U drouts and Nintendo alongside the Wii U being the ass of every joke back then. Damn time goes by fast

​@@AlexDKongActually, the Virtual Boy is their worst selling console.

Not really IMO. Will be close. They might sell another 10 million this year. Then they are still 5 million short. And with a successor coming out it’s not guaranteed.

@@raskolnikov6443how about this: the 3Ds sold 13 million consoles after the switch release, now the switch is like 14 million behind the ps2 total sales, its successor hasn’t been announced, it hasn’t even received a price cut and is still selling very well(right now after seven years keeps selling better than the Ps5 in Japan) once the price cut comes it will surpass the ps2 easily mark my words

Might be better to wait and see if their next system is backwards compatible.

I was also thinking that Totk might just give it a little push that could be enough. I bought my switch last Christmas EXACTLY cus I wanted to play Totk and I just know a lot of ppl feel the same way

If people still havent bought a switch for BOTE, why would they buy one for its sequel?

@@mirakovacs6981I also got a Christmas switch for Totk and know lots of friends who did as well, Totk might push the switch over

​@@deanobeany Considering TotK is being described as "making BotW look like a tech demo", I could see people buying a Switch just to play it.

@@deanobeanyi know people forget about us all the time but: i , for example played BoTW on the Wii U(yes, we exist), and just recently bought a switch for Pokémon and ToTk

The PS3 was backwards compatible and the PS2 continued to sell.

@@darrenmacqueen9884 Yeah, but the PS2 was still a cheap DVD player. Still, that is a good point.

Yea but the PS3 was selling at a whopping $600 back on the mid-2000’s, so that kept people from jumping on board and kept the PS2 alone for a while longer. If the next gen is backwards compatible, then there go the Switch sales. If it wants to beat PS2, then Switch had to be the flagship console at least into 2025.

PS2 was at 110 million once the PS3 launched, the PlayStation 2 sold roughly 50 million more consoles after the launch of its successor

@@ThomastheDankEngine8900 because they still sold them even afrer ps3 and they support it for some time cause "dvd player" things

I think Nintendo can squeeze another two fiscal years of 10+ million units. So 15 million in FY 2024 and 10-11 million in FY 2025.

Heresy

Super Wario Bros lol

Yeah, the DS and 3DS were the only consoles I felt comfortable carrying in my pocket. I needed a carrying case for my PSP and it didn't fit in my pocket then. Of course, the Switch won't even fit in my pocket anyway so needing a carrying case when I'm storing it in a backpack or something isn't a big deal.

Gamplay is always first but better graphics still make games better, I'd definitly pick TOTK as well here but TOTK with better graphics and framerate would be even better

@@KeinNiemand : I dont think 99% of users would notice. And I say that as a graphics guy. That said, Im sure they can do some optimizations thru patches/etc. The draw distance, LoDing, etc are already incredible for what amounts to a handheld.

We need more Ram still, Nintendo could and should have released a new Switch model with more Ram, 8gb ram, i think that would be enough to help the developers, and the games.

Woohoo, full steam ahead

lol no switch is only halfway done

It actually got a price cut in europe not much but still

When did Nintendo say this?

@@setokaiba914said*, and in a direct in the days where the switch was launched

Those are strong games. It doesn't mean the console is strong. As shown in the video, console sales are declining. These games are strong but their strength is coming from selling to existing Switch owners, not from selling Switches to newcomers.

@@mjc0961 There's never been a console that has sold what the switch sold in the 6th year. Not the PS2, Not the DS. The Switch Ecosystem is on fire. It's unprecedented.

Yea at best I can see it top out at around 140 to 145 million.

​@@Daigon95 Either way, Nintendo will have put out 3 of the top 5 selling consoles ever made.

Why does it matter if it beats the ps2?

It matters because the PS2 is the highest selling console of all time

@@Telmarine55 ok but what does that have to do with the market today that was a 100 years ago

Yeah. It’s a hardware in which games are more expensive to produce. But, the 3DS was selling less units than the Switch per month since the beginning. So, even if the sales drop, I don’t think it will be to the extent of the 3DS

Probably the next 2 or 3 years after the release of the next console, the games are gonna be cross plataform with Switch and the new console, like it's happening right now with ps4 and ps5. which means, the switch will get the titles that the next console will have, so there will definetly be notable titles for the Switch in the future.

I have a ps2 3 and 5 but I have a switch too because they added sora in smash that’s it

Awful take, switch will easily top it. The DS already would’ve topped it if Nintendo didn’t discontinue it for no reason

​@@IceBlueLugia they will do the same for the Switch, I don't think Switch gonna be number 1.

Regardless Nintendo knocked it out of the park this generation.I just hope we don't get another Wii U situation again,but at this point I don't think that will happen again.

@@Ghost-ul8eu never know, Wii was an immense success but Wii U flopped hard. Hell even 3DS is their worst selling handheld besides the virtual boy, and that came after their biggest success ever, the DS. Nintendo can fail at any time

It probably will, the games that will release in the next console could and probably will, release to switch as well, like it's happening with ps4 and ps5 currently, there will be at least 2 or 3 years of crossgen titles even after the next console release, and those games will probably be good, so... yeah.

And the PS2 had to deal with its successor for half of its life span

The market is much bigger now than it used to be as well.