 Hey everyone, today we're gonna talk to you about the sales of game software here in the United States and how Nintendo Switch actually owns 19 of the top 20 software sales. Now there are some caveats to that but it does show Nintendo's dominance. We already know that Nintendo dominates in Japan. It makes up like 97% of all console sales this year in Japan. And yes, they frequently own the top 10 software sales week to week. But that turns out it's really starting to extend to the United States even though there are obviously significantly more PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series being sold here. Still, the fact that despite that Nintendo's able to own so many of the top software selling titles of 2021 is quite amazing. Now before I get into that and get into the caveats of the data I wanna remind you guys to go ahead and hit that subscribe button because any new subscribers all the way until January 27th actually get an opportunity to win $100 cash. 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So the sales data they have is often representative of the grander industry on the whole not 100%. Now there are some caveats to this data for starters how they list game sales is different than you might see in say the NPD report. The NPD report will list game sales with combined digital and physical and also combined version sometimes. That's not the case here with Amazon. So caveat number one is a digital copy of a game and a physical copy of a game are listed completely separately on Amazon. You'll notice this when we go over last year's numbers as a comparison. And then when you also look at it they don't combine versions together. So say you have NBA 2K they're not gonna add the Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and Xbox One versions altogether. So a lot of these multi-platform games are going to be a little bit shocking how low they are on the list. Just note that doesn't mean they're actually not higher. As you guys know the NPD is always reporting that Madden and NBA 2K and Call of Duty are near the top of the list every single month but that's because they're multi-platform so a lot of this is just individual platform individual game version sales. So again the sales of all the games are likely higher but either way it's just as impressive. First up let's just go over comparison for what 2020 was because Nintendo killed it last year too. We all know this. Nintendo's won like 37 of the last 38 months on the market in the United States in terms of system sales. But 2020 is top 10. We just got the top 10 here. Animal Crossing New Horizons, the physical version Super Mario 3D All Stars, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Animal Crossing New Horizons, the digital version. At number six is Cyberpunk 2077 for PlayStation 4, Ring Fit Adventure at number seven, Hyrule Warriors, Age of Calamity, at number eight the PlayStation 4 version of The Last of Us part two and then The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild. Now that was the top 10 last year. You see there were a couple of PlayStation games I got in there are some big ones. Cyberpunk obviously being a big third party game but yeah that obviously showed that there was for individual system sales that Nintendo was really dominating even last year. Although Sony, you know Last of Us part two was able to crack into that list. This year it's even worse for everybody else. So we have the top 20. And there's a reason we have the top 20. First up, Super Mario 3D World Plus Bowser's Fury, best selling game on Amazon this year. Just Dance 2022, the Nintendo Switch version is the second best selling game this year. Animal Crossing New Horizons is the third best selling game. Pokemon Brilliant Diamond is the fourth best selling game. The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword HD is the fifth best selling game. Mario Party Superstars is the sixth best selling game. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the seventh best selling game. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the eighth best selling game. The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild is the ninth best selling game. Metroid Dread is the 10th best selling game. Pokemon Shining Pearl is the 11th best selling game this year. Super Mario Odyssey is the 12th best selling game this year. The 13th best selling game is New Pokemon Snap. The 14th best selling game this year on Amazon is Minecraft the Nintendo Switch Edition. The 15th best selling game is actually Just Dance 2021 for the Nintendo Switch. The 16th best selling game this year on Amazon is Luigi's Mansion 3. The 17th best selling game is Super Mario Party. The 18th best selling game is surprisingly Carnival Games. Man, we actually featured that a couple of years ago at this point for Nintendo Switch. Number 19 is Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe. And finally, we get to number 20 and the reason we're doing the top 20. We finally have our only PlayStation 4 game in the top 20 that being NBA 2K, the one that came out this year. So yeah, as you can see, extreme bias towards Nintendo's software. It just shows Nintendo's dominance isn't just in Japan. We should be surprised. The Switch is the market leader. It is probably over 100 million units at this point according to our own metrics and according to VG charts, likely according to Nintendo's metrics as well, even though they're not publicly announced yet. The Switch is dominating. The Switch has an opportunity to become the best selling system of all time. We'll have to see how it gets there. Is there gonna be another revision to boost sales? It's a little bit more powerful. It's still part of the same generation. How much longer is Switch gonna be on the market? Is it two years, three years, four years? Five, is it gonna be like six more? Like PlayStation 2 is on the market for 12 years? I don't know. What I do know is Nintendo is dominating the software and hardware department right now. Now, why are they doing this? It could be pandemic related. It could be just related to releasing evergreen titles. What you notice on that list is not all those games came out this year. Nintendo has this knack for evergreen titles, titles that sell millions and millions and millions of copies year over year over year over year, despite not lowering the price on most of those games. Only Nintendo seems to get away with it. And I'm not sure why. You know, you look at Horizon Forbidden West coming next year, it's probably gonna sell 10 million plus copies between PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. Maybe even more. But then after like a few months, it's gonna be in discount bins because the sales have dwindled that much that they need to do that. And even after being discounted, it still won't sell additional millions. That's the crazy thing. They discount these games to keep them selling extremely well, but the discount's not keeping them selling the same as Nintendo who isn't discounting. See how weird that is? How Nintendo's getting away with a business strategy? Nobody else can. And then even the strategies they do use to maintain sales still can't hit the same sort of sales Nintendo gets you over a year. I mean, where the heck is PlayStation's Mario Kart 8 Deluxe selling millions every year? Breath of the Wild, millions every year, every year. It's insane to me that Nintendo can do this. But it does show the incredible sales power of Nintendo IP. It shows obviously the fact that people are highly satisfied with Nintendo games and are comfortable paying 60 bucks a pop even years later. It also shows the incredible popularity of the Nintendo Switch hardware. There's a lot of criticism out there in the gaming community that the Switch hardware is underpowered and weak and stupid and blah, blah, blah, it's 2015 technology, LOL Valve Steam Deck next year. But hey, the market is speaking. They're loving Switch. They're loving what Nintendo's doing and they're continuing to buy Nintendo games at record paces. So what does this really mean? It means Nintendo fans have nothing to worry about for the current and present and future of Switch. In fact, we should be stupidly excited because 2022 is gonna be another massive year and Nintendo's gonna want those games to sell for years and years as well. If there is a next gen Switch in 2023 or beyond, it's likely gonna have all these games backwards compatible and or ported versions of them because it works so well for Switch with Wii U. Why not do it again? And obviously the biggest caveat here is just showing how popular Nintendo is. It can be said almost without trepidation that in 2020 and 2021, Nintendo might be more popular now than it's ever been. They've opened theme parks, right? They've gotten LEGO sets out. They've obviously gotten the owning the sales charts and record paces here in the US, Japan and most of the world. Nintendo is doing something with Switch that even the Wii and DS era didn't do and that to me is absolutely incredible. So yeah, Nintendo's kind of at the peak of its power. The question is, what's Nintendo gonna do now that they've been on top for a sustained period of time? See, typically when companies get to the top, they falter, they drop, they make a mistake. Sony didn't seem to do that going from PlayStation 4 to PlayStation 5 yet, we'll see what happens down the line. But is Nintendo about to falter now that they're back on top? I don't know, time will tell. Some people feel like the Switch OLED was already a falter but is it? It's still sold out. Sure, you might walk into your local target or Walmart and find a few switches. There's a few Switch OLEDs on the shelves here and there. They probably will be gone in a couple of days. The demand is incredible. Shintaro Furukawa's warned us that they can't keep up with demand right now let alone in 2022. He's already telling us, stock shortages aren't going anywhere next year. You might have a hard time anytime you want walking into a store and buying the Switch OLED. Same for PlayStation 5. Same for the Xbox Series. Same for graphics cards unless you happen to have a local micro-center that gets thousands of them at once. I honestly think we are in a situation right now where I am very nervous for Nintendo. They have not always done their greatest work when they're on top. Usually leads to a Wii U situation, a Virtual Boy situation, a GameCube situation and I love all those platforms for different reasons. But if we're honest, that's Nintendo squandering their time at the top. So let's see what Nintendo does this time under new leadership. Shintaro Furukawa's first major task as president of Nintendo is going to be what do we do now that we're at the top again? Is he gonna react the way the late Owada did and blow the lead? Or is he gonna learn lessons from the past, apply that to the present and the future and keep this momentum going in the same way Sony can keep it going generation after generation after generation. If the 2022 lineup is anything to go off of, it certainly feels like Shintaro Furukawa is taking lessons from the past and applying them to the present because we've never had a lineup like that in year six. Let's think about that for a moment. The fifth year, the fifth birthday of Nintendo Switch is happening on March 3rd. Most of the games coming next year are gonna be happening during the sixth year and I know you're gonna be like why are we called the sixth year? It's because once we get to March 3rd of next year we have completed five years on the market. That's why it's your fifth birthday. So we will be in the sixth year for most of those games and Nintendo's never had that kind of year in its sixth year for games and software lineup. So we'll have to wait and see. But for right now things are looking up and I don't know what's gonna stop them except for Nintendo themselves. All right folks, I am Nathan DeRobeljans from Nintendo Prime. Thank you so much for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video.