 We did it everyone, we ended console wars forever. At least that seems to be claims VMA by certain outlets as it turns out that Nintendo Switch might potentially be the best if not best fastest selling system of all time aka Nintendo Switch has essentially won the console war of all time already and yet it's still not even the best selling system of all time. We all know 157 million PlayStation 2's have been sold. We also know 154 million DS's have been sold. So how can a system that hasn't even crossed a hundred million already be the best selling system of all time and thus ending the console war dilemma? Well one console wars are obviously not over because that's all personal preference and leads to arguing over different brands. This is just like Apple versus Android or Samsung versus Google or I don't know whatever arguments you want to put out there you know you got macOS versus Windows versus Linux you have obviously Nintendo versus Sony versus Microsoft it never ends right like console wars aren't gonna go anywhere so I find the headlines a little bit hyperbolic but we do have some legitimate information here that we're gonna talk about here this information was posted by digitaljournal.com and it was actually done by a research group who found that Nintendo Switch is actually the fastest selling system to date or at least the most units per year have sold to date again we're gonna talk about why this data is a bit skewed and why data like this can get skewed but here's actually the chart I'm actually looking at it right here on my phone it says that Nintendo Switch has sold 90.54 million units within four years that puts it at a sales rate of 22.64 million units per year aka the fastest selling system of all time the most units per year of all time and number two is the DS at 154.9 million with nine years in production that had 17.21 million then you get to PlayStation 4 5 2 3 etc you can see the number of years that things were in production like we sold 101 million units but it was also in production for 11 years obviously the amount of units per year is much lower the thing about this data though that I find interesting and this is just starting to make waves everywhere I've seen this on Nintendo life I've seen this on my Nintendo I've seen this even on places like Bloomberg is that data can be very funky because it's noting 90 million in sales for Nintendo Switch in four years yet in about three and a half months we will have just concluded the fifth year of Nintendo Switch now yes in the next three and a half months we're about to get sales data that's likely gonna push Nintendo Switch past a hundred million units close to a hundred and five maybe a hundred and eight million units and in that case it still might not knock the data down too much instead of it being 22 million maybe it's more like 19 million per year but still the data is obviously not 100% accurate since it's using the most updated sales figures from the current fiscal year which are taking place in the fifth year of Nintendo Switch not the fourth so that data is already skewed and then beyond all of that obviously a lot of systems sell a lot of units in the first four or five years on the market and then typically sold out so let's say Nintendo Switch is in production for 10 years does anyone realistically think it's gonna continue to sell 22 million units every year now you could just say this is an interesting data point to look at but the headlines being made out of it to me are absolutely insane like yes the Nintendo Switch is selling incredible and for its first four to five years on the market being able to top 22 million units in sales per year is incredible and it cannot be understated it is the best Nintendo's ever done the DS wasn't doing this for the first four or five years not even though we was doing 22 million per year for four plus years it actually kind of blew its load in the first three so yeah it's obvious that Nintendo Switch is potentially Nintendo's best-selling system of all time I mean give it another three years this might top the DS in fact who knows it might even top the PlayStation 2 and become the best-selling console of all time but it's not going to do that in five years or six years as they're trying to suggest it's going to take probably an additional four years from today and another three holiday seasons before this would even come close and this presumes Nintendo can keep it selling while we keep talking about switch pro 4k switch other things Nintendo might need to do along the way but yeah it would require the switch as is to keep selling and by the way maybe it will maybe Nintendo will prove the doubters wrong but I still find it a bit hard to fathom a world where this is considered the best-selling system of all time even though the data is suggesting it's off to a super hot start things tend to cool off in the second half of the console life but we'll see obviously with the pandemic and everything things have not cooled off yet and it's very well the switch could continue to sell 20 plus million units per year for the next two to three years there is a reality where that does exist it's just whether or not it's going to happen we're trying to predict future with today's current numbers and I'm not so sure that we can successfully do that it's like PlayStation 5 continues to sell out but it's not always going to sell out eventually they're going to make more units and demand calls for and then we'll see kind of where the sales equal out for PlayStation 5 as well same with the Xbox series which is already in the top 10 so yeah I find this to be absolutely fascinating it's nice to look at this data just be kind of careful about the headlines including the headline in this video because obviously the headline in this video is based on the headlines from all the news outlets out there and yeah it's a little misleading so yeah I guess let's just stick to the narrative and go Nintendo switch is a new console wars yeah by the way folks be sure to like and subscribe to this video just have a giveaway going on right now for three copies of Pokemon Legends Arceus be sure to drop down into the comment section or the pin comment to enter thank you guys so much for tuning in and we'll catch you in the next video