150 million

Nintendo shared new sales numbers and the Switch finally crossed the very difficult 150 million milestone. Congratulations to Nintendo for this massive success. The WiiU was a total disaster, with less than 10% of sales of the Switch.

It should be studied, how Nintendo managed to pull this off, but for me the answer is very clear.

Software sells hardware. Good Software sells more hardware.

Nintendo somehow managed to release more than 10 games per year consistently. Almost every month a new game was launched since the release of the console and some of these games are masterpieces. Not all games were new, there were also many remasters or ports, but these are equally important.

Especially Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, an awesome game, which was only played by a few WiiU owners, has now over 60 million sold copies. A very simply port with minor tweaks.

Even Breath of the Wild is technically a port, since the game was meant to be released on the WiiU. The dual launch was genius.

Nintendo is dominating the video game industry and I love it.

In case you want to read the financial results, here is the link.