April 2023 is the 74th month that the Nintendo Switch has been available for. During the latest month, the gap grew in favor of the DS by 4.15 million units when compared to the Switch during the same timeframe.
In the last 12 months, the DS has outsold the Switch by 2.10 million units. The DS is ahead of the Switch by 15.40 million units.
The 74th month on sale for the Nintendo Switch is April 2023, while for the DS it is December 2010. The Switch has sold 125.06 million units, while the DS sold 140.45 million units during the same timeframe.
Thanks to their portability, steadily advancing hardware, and superb library, portable gaming devices might become the dominant choice soon.
Consoles, desktops, and handhelds are all here to stay. Good to have all these options.
Hope not.
I'm fine they're around, but the day it makes my gaming experience worse on home consoles is when I will hure someone to burn down Nintendo.
Nintendo almost suceeded destroying gaming with Wii.
Due to amazing sales for people who didn't knew better, Sony started on the Move Controllers and MS on the Kinect.
Luckily enough they both flopped and they went back to focus on the right things.
It's very possible especially with Nintendo as games performance continues to improve in the handheld scene.
No. Portable has been around since forever. It's a supplement to a traditional console. Will get a switch 2, but I anticipate that I will be playing it in bed like the current switch.
Unless Nintendo fixes their online, shopping, achievements and other key quality of life features that's a no. It will be worth buying for a specific handful of games like most Ninetndo systems and not much beyond that. I don't doubt it will be in the running for the best selling system of all time, but, it will still be the side action and not the platform to move in with.
Listings on the eShops provide file sizes for a bunch of Switch games. These include Princess Peach: Showtime, Another Code: Recollection, Mario vs. Donkey Kong, Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft, and more.
Xenoblade Chronicles composer Kenji Hiramatsu reflects on his work and feels that it's "time for a fresh start."