Nintendo Switch Soars Past SNES in Lifetime Sales (inputmag.com) 21
Nintendo says the Switch has hit 52.5 million sales in its lifetime, already surpassing that of the SNES. From a report: In becoming the company's fifth best-selling console of all-time, the Switch has helped to boost Nintendo -- the company reported a $2.75 billion operating profit, up from the previously predicted $2.38 billion. Previous forecasts had Switch sales for the fiscal year, ending March 31, at 18 million. That number has now jumped to 19.5 million. And, 10.8 million of those were sold during the holiday season alone, leading to a 22.5 percent increase by December of the previous year.
More gamers now than ever (Score:4, Informative)
Also more people.
"public school enrollment across all grades rose from 41,217,000 in 1990 to 50,438,000 in 2015 – a nearly 25% increase overall."
Just to give a sense of the change in population of the K-12 demographic.
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If you'r
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Basketball, soccer, and going out side were all viable competition to SNES. These days kids can't go out and ride bikes whenever they want.
Re:More gamers now than ever (Score:4, Insightful)
Tend to disagree. For everyone I knew with a game system as a kid it wasn't an either/or choice, it was an and. We'd play outside and ride out bikes during the good weather and when it was boiling hot or rainy or snowy we'd play video games indoors. Or at night.
True but videogames didn't dominate play then (Score:3)
PC gaming is still kind of niche. Unless you get lucky and get a AMD Ryzen chip you're not going to be able to do much gaming on the kind of laptop you get for homework. Desktops that can take a graphics card are less common these days due to small form factors and cut down motherboards. As a kid you'd really have to seek it out. You'd be much more likely to end up with a console, which can be ha
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Homework laptop would have Intel graphics (Score:2)
Gaming is almost never CPU-bottlenecked unless you have an utterly horrible CPU. Most gaming performance is GPU-bottlenecked, a Ryzen would make little difference in most setups.
Intel CPU, Intel graphics. AMD CPU, AMD graphics.
I think rsilvergun is trying to say that unless "the laptop you got for homework" has a Ryzen, it will have an Intel integrated graphics processor. As I understand it, Intel graphics have historically have been up to one console generation's worth of GPU performance behind AMD and NVIDIA. Or is "the laptop you got for homework" likely to have a user-replaceable MXM slot for a discrete GPU and cooling to match?
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> Most gaming performance is GPU-bottlenecked, a Ryzen would make little difference in most setups.
For laptops a Ryzen makes a ton of difference as the Ryzens have Vega. For similarly priced Ryzen-Vega laptops vs Intel-IGP you'll see 30-50% boost in framerate for games. For some games that's the difference between literally unplayable and acceptable at low res/settings.
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Not in Japan though.
Not that this refutes your argument overall; but if you look at sales trends in japan your not going to have the same population growth trend affecting things.
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population of Japan: 126.8 million ...
population of US/CA/MX: 493 million
population of Europe: 741.4 million
Where as switch sales for US/CA/MX is close to 15m, and Japan, a much lower population region is doing well at 10m, and Europe is doing poorly at 10m as well. (I think those are close to the Switch sales numbers as of Nov 2019, correct me if I'm wrong or you have more up-to-date info)
Point being, even if Japan is the biggest slice in terms of sales. They aren't the biggest slice in terms of market pla
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And it's also worth noting that there are a lot of gamers who are well past school age, so that needs to be taken into account as well. The average age of a "gamer" these days is 31.
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The age of gamer has definitely increased over the years. When SNES was hot, they were still focusing much of the marketing in toy stores.
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Re: More gamers now than ever (Score:1)
Does that mean we have infantile adults? Or that adult activities aren't engaging enough?
I tried some of the video slots at casinos and other adult games. Boring, I needed a lot of booze to sit there for more than a few minutes.
With NSO, the Switch is a SNES, too. (Score:2)
You might say that buying a Switch (and subscribing to NSO) is also buying a SNES.
Woah! *Fifth* best-selling? (Score:2)
Totally news-worthy!
Apropos: Got anything on bags of rice in China?
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I wonder how much of this is related to Witcher 3 on Switch.