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December 2018 NPD Results: Switch highest selling console of 2018 by units and revenue, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate top selling game of December
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MatPiscatella the gap between Let's Go Pikachu and Let's Go Eevee seems unusually large. how big does it compare with previous pokemon games, and how are the legs looking for Let's Go in general (in comparison to the 3DS games)?
1/5th? The Switch has sold over 10 million units in the US I believe compared to the PS4 that is around 27-28 million. That's not even close to 1/5th.
I think he's saying that the Switch has 1/5 as many consoles sold as the PS4 does currently. Given that, any Switch exclusive game outselling games that are available to 5 times as many people is a big feat.
That's true but many used that as a sign that their games were no longer big system sellers
I know what he is saying but you can't compare the sales numbers of the Switch worldwide to the PS4 when you're talking about how a game sold in just one region. His statement was that they had the 5th best selling game of the year on 1/5th the numbers when that isn't the case b/c this isn't worldwide numbers. It's US. So in that case the Switch is actually closer to 1/2 the sales of the PS4.
Agreed. Over 1/3 of Switch owners in the US bought Smash already. Very impressive.
Damn at Smash's performance. 1 month, retail only, #5 YTD. Also knocked GTAV off the top 10.
Red Dead also managed to sell the most this year, outselling COD with 2 less weeks.
BFV actually held very well. Retail Fallout 76 on the other hand...
Red Dead also managed to sell the most this year, outselling COD with 2 less weeks.
BFV actually held very well. Retail Fallout 76 on the other hand...
Don't forget the Pro and X. On that note, that statement must be about revenue right? The PS4 can't be up YoY in unit sales.
Love me some good basketball game, sad this place don't talk about sport games enough even though NBA 2k19 and Madden 19 are top 3 and 4 sold games last year. But all y'all talk about is exclusive and the usual same old third party games from ubisoft and the rest.
Wish the fan base of the 2k community could make some noise so 2k can cut down on the MTX on mycareer and all the BS the dev be doing .
NBA 2k is like the only game on ps4 that gets 10 updates in 4 months and the dev don't even put out patch notes. Unacceptable behavior from the devs when other game dev don't treat their community like that. Sometimes I wish they don't gain any success till they actually fix shit.
Wish the fan base of the 2k community could make some noise so 2k can cut down on the MTX on mycareer and all the BS the dev be doing .
NBA 2k is like the only game on ps4 that gets 10 updates in 4 months and the dev don't even put out patch notes. Unacceptable behavior from the devs when other game dev don't treat their community like that. Sometimes I wish they don't gain any success till they actually fix shit.
Um, I don't think we have confirmation that that is true even if we are counting just 1st Party. Spider-Man was certainly the best selling 1st Party PS4 title of 2018, but not LTD for the whole system as far we know. It also came in 3rd behind Red Dead Redemption 2 and Black Ops 4 for 2018.
Made my guesses for readjustments there.
Wow, amazing #s.
Gamecube to Wii
WiiU to Switch
I hope they break the trend with the Switch successor :/
Gamecube to Wii
WiiU to Switch
I hope they break the trend with the Switch successor :/
They have a good blueprint on what to follow. I think they can be iterative on the Switch, unlike the Wii.
Perhaps it's not accurate, but Wikipedia says the same thing: List of best-selling PlayStation 4 video games
Absolutely insane sales for the Switch and for Smash. Bonkers really. I never even knew Smash had that sort of draw, and looking at past sales, it seems only the Wii version did really well console sales wise, the other versions didn't hit 10 million. Hell Smash on Switch will have sold in a single month, what the Wii U and N64 versions did in their life time.
On one negative note, I do think the insane success of the Switch is going to be one of the reasons Nintendo isn't going to feel as pressured or compelled into fixing their online systems etc any time soon. They simply don't need to. The wider market doesn't seem to care, and their ever greens are carrying them to unprecedented success nonetheless.
On one negative note, I do think the insane success of the Switch is going to be one of the reasons Nintendo isn't going to feel as pressured or compelled into fixing their online systems etc any time soon. They simply don't need to. The wider market doesn't seem to care, and their ever greens are carrying them to unprecedented success nonetheless.
The Uncharted 4 number is only through January 2017 according to the reference on Wiki and I was assuming we were talking about US sales in an NPD thread.
I agree, throwing the Vita 6-7 meters sounds entirely doable this year.
you mean nearly 1/2. number in op lacks bundles and digital sales
True but then again, the Switch is literally Nintendos 2nd try for the same generation.
Actually it was worse. Ignoring those who said Switch will reach WiiU sales at best, hardly anyone said it would reach Wii Sales level. When Kimishima at some point (when Switch was just starting to take off) mentioned Switch and "Wii like sales" in the same sentence, most forum goers ridiculed him.
I had to take a look through that thread to see what I said at the time... not the worst:
In April, same thread:
No. RDR2/COD are on a tier of their own.
I'm doing a best selling VR required list later, but VR sales in the quarter didnt really break away from previous trajectory.
what a month for nintendo.
can't wait for nintendo's update on WW numbers for hardware and games.
can't wait for nintendo's update on WW numbers for hardware and games.
Oh sure, Nintendo pretty much operates on their own schedule at this point anyway. Just to be clear though my comment wasn't a dig at the PS4 or Xbox, I just think it's cool that upgrade hardware has had such a big impact.
The king of first party games sold the most hardware in December in US. It's amazing which games and characters Nintendo holds in its hands and how these are able to keep selling consoles since decades.
So do we know about the best selling console WW this year?
Probably a close one with Switch and PS4
Probably a close one with Switch and PS4