Wrong? I never provided numbers, and I was talking about sales not shipments in my original tweet. I'm sure Nintendo pushed a bunch of fresh Switch Lite inventory into channels for the holiday season. Microsoft won't be shipping a ton of new console inventory to retailers because it didn't just launch a new Xbox version in the recent quarter. Either way, I'd expect the Switch has sold through a lot of that inventory to pass the Xbox One. It was close before the holidays, and the Switch will blast past the Xbox One now. Just shows you why having more than just third-party games on your platform really matters.
Even excluding the ~3 Million Nintendo Switch Lite units that shipped in Q3 for Nintendo, they would still have out sold the Xbox One.
Looking at sell through, it seems to be around 14 million+ Nintendo Switch units that sold across the last 2 quarters, with the shipped numbers only being about 15 and a half Million, it doesn't look like the channel was stuffed this time, which makes sense, as Nintendo is just shy of their previous FY numbers already and simply sold more than they were expecting to.
WW shipped numbers usually stay 1.5 to 2 Million above sold through numbers for both Nintendo and Sony, unless they stuff channels like last year.
in a moment you will get the new "2020 responses" ...
- Consoles sold does not matter anymore.
- This is why they go for subscriptions instead.
- They are well set for next gen because they are getting lots of subs to their services.
- Services are the future, not consoles.
- etc.
That is Microsoft's business for the past half decade, look at every Microsoft product, it's all been moving to services. This is Microsoft's goal and to deny it is just more console warrior mindset, I know a lot of you work in the industry and this is the gaming business, but take a real look at what is going on. Microsoft is selling Sony Xcloud services, they offered them to Nintendo, they are selling their games on Nintendo's platform and thought about bringing Halo to the Playstation 4 in the past.
Microsoft isn't selling you hardware, they are selling you their brand, their services, and giving you an option to play it on their hardware, where they traditionally don't even make much of a profit in the first place.