Principate said: We've entered the period where the switch should be able to make up lost ground against the 3DS. Real battle starts now. Click to expand...

schuelma said: Re: Switch. Realistically, looking at known releases, I can't see momentum slowing much at all until late August/September at the earliest. if Nintendo can have some decent software for Fall they should be in a very good position come holiday. Click to expand...

It seems assured that the Switch will overtake 3DS big time before the price cut happened, since Switch is currently only 217k behind, will likely outsell 3DS launch aligned by 10k-15k each regular week, and will have massive weeks with Mario Kart and Splatoon 2. What happens beyond that is very interesting. I can't imagine Switch going back to 45k right after Splatoon hits, and instead will get much larger shipments and sales, so I think Switch has a chance of selling on par with or close to the 3DS' first calendar year.Yeah, I think the period of slowing sales should have been a few weeks ago, a month after BOTW with "nothing else to play." I think now we can safely say that Switch will not do dramatic drops like its predecessors.