The company revealed during its last quarterly report that it shipped 1.95 million Switch Lite consoles in the first ten days it was available.
At $199, the Switch Lite is definitely cheaper than a $299 Switch, but it’s not an enormous difference.
JoyCon drift is a problem where JoyCon controllers begin to register ghost “input” that occurs with no one actually touching the controller.
It’s completely separate from any calibration problem, and we know the Switch Lite suffers from it — reports of JoyCon drift on the Switch Lite began to surface almost as soon as the console launched.
Nintendo moved 4.8M Switch consoles this quarter and 1.95M of them were the Switch Lite.