And Switch is at 13 rn
lmao, yeah that record is not gonna break
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lmao, yeah that record is not gonna break
Nintendo is actually losing money with animal crossing? Never heard of a
Game selling so much and so fast that is not as violent as GTA. They need to make movies, tv series, themes parks and anything with the brand. That's non sense. It's a single game on a single platform without paid dlc.
This shit on multiplatform would be doing crazy batshit numbers. More than is doing now.
Edit: before people put words in my mouth, I'm just impressed how this gMe relaunched switch all by itsef.I don defend it should be brought to ps5 or something.
Anyway, It's a pokemon blue/red effect that I never saw it coming again. I was pretty confident AC would go for. 20 million ltd, but 30 and growing? The fuck. Make a disney theme park already.
Game selling so much and so fast that is not as violent as GTA. They need to make movies, tv series, themes parks and anything with the brand. That's non sense. It's a single game on a single platform without paid dlc.
This shit on multiplatform would be doing crazy batshit numbers. More than is doing now.
Edit: before people put words in my mouth, I'm just impressed how this gMe relaunched switch all by itsef.I don defend it should be brought to ps5 or something.
Anyway, It's a pokemon blue/red effect that I never saw it coming again. I was pretty confident AC would go for. 20 million ltd, but 30 and growing? The fuck. Make a disney theme park already.
Hiska-kun asked for this comparation again, but to make things more interesting (since i believe it'll easy beat it even this year) i'll probabily add 2007 DS next week.
I don't know, but it certainly wouldn't have driven Switch sales past 25M for this FY, that is driven by Animal Crossing, and it's not done yet, there is a chance it sells 30M this FY world wide.
An Animal Crossing themed section in Super Nintendo World seems like such a no-brainer. It has so much potential in that capacity.
Disgaea 6 seeling 50% more on Switch is very interesting.
Hopefully, someday the fallacy of 3rd parties not being able to find success on Nintendo's console can be buried.
If you care for the audience, the audience will care for your product
Hopefully, someday the fallacy of 3rd parties not being able to find success on Nintendo's console can be buried.
If you care for the audience, the audience will care for your product
This is impossible to beat. Absolutely impossible. But in the long run the Switch will still beat the DS LT.
Did a double take when I saw the PS5 numbers to make sure I saw correctly. Hopefully for the people in Japan looking to buy, this positive trend continues for PS5 hardware shipments.
Most of these franchises have a long history and established userbase on Playstation, even if they've been declining for years. Unlike during the PSOne gen, where almost all Japanese third parties immediately abandoned Nintendo during the SNES -> N64 transition, so it was clear PSOne was the system for their games, the Playstation brand has just slowly lost Japanese exclusives through the years. There hasn't been a similar exodus in the opposite direction, so a lot of the people interested in those games still have a Playstation.
It's only sold 24M through the past 9 months (not including last month) which is the FY, but yeah for calendar year, it should be around 30M.
True but Switch will have a longer lifecycle, hardware sales are more spread than your typical Nintendo platform. I don't think it will ever reach DS in terms of total hardware sales but now I can see it going closer to 30m than 25m. Nintendo still has many weapons like price cuts, hardware revisions, new software to keep sales going.
Each quarter has 13 weeks.
Week 13, 2020 (Mar 23 - Mar 29) ended at 1.700.352 units.
Famitsu's Week 1, 2021 (Dec 28 - Jan 03) ended at 312.121 units, which will be subtracted
Famitsu's Week 5, 2021 (Jan 25 - Jan 31) ended at 875.389 units.
So that means Week 6-14, 2021 will need (1.700.352 - 875.389 + 312.121) / (14-5) = 1.137.084 / 9 = 126.343 units per week on average (that's rounded up) for Q1 2021 to overtake Q1 2020.
Edit: I made numbering mistakes.
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If Nintendo can update the Switch with an iterative successor this year, it could sell to current owners all over again... it would be like the Gameboy Color, really a generation leap in technology and hardware over the original gameboy, but still part of the same platform. Just think if they were able to push 3DS as part of the DS platform, instead of something separate, it could have added to the DS total and would have realistically climbed over 50M sales, though might have left the market in 2016, in time for the Switch.
The 30M production report was from September, and if they're saying they're manufacturing 30M, I have to assume that means they intend to ship 25-27M. Right now, I think they're on pace to ship 29-30M for the FY ending 03/31/2021, which suggests IMO that there was at least another production increase up to ~33-35M to start matching NDS quarterlies and have the capacity to hit 30M during a TTM period (and they've now hit peak NDS numbers 2 quarters in a row).
Pokemon Snap will be next FY, reporting will be through March 31st (I think they tabulate data through Fri, Apr 2, and then back out 2 days).
Switch is just insane, wow. Not much else to say. Very happy for Ring Fit too.
PS5 numbers are much more like it, if that was the new baseline then it'd be in for a first full year beyond most people's expectations I think. Also the global launch date aligned picture is now more positive. It does seem like Sony just spread out the PS4 Japan launch numbers over an earlier period for PS5, which is a fair enough strategy. Lets see how PS5 holds from here.
PS5 numbers are much more like it, if that was the new baseline then it'd be in for a first full year beyond most people's expectations I think. Also the global launch date aligned picture is now more positive. It does seem like Sony just spread out the PS4 Japan launch numbers over an earlier period for PS5, which is a fair enough strategy. Lets see how PS5 holds from here.
Switch has a chance to sell 2 Million in just Japan this quarter, so yeah 30M is in play for the FY world wide.
Around 33M for both, Switch can get there, but it depends on if this revision rumored to come in the fall, will sell to original owners like the Gameboy color, or just get a single year boost like the DSi.
A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, Disgaea 5 debuted with 5k on Switch, leading Oregano to declare that Switch 3rd party support was dead.
So i took the MK8 for it. Sorry. But it's impressive nonetheless.
Either I myself am misunderstanding what you are talking about, or you didn't see my post, or you have me on ignore... :-)
z0m3le is talking about Switch numbers, I think you are talking about AC numbers. ACNH is at 31.18 million as of end December.
There was never any potential for a localization to begin with. I and other posters have been saying for weeks that games aimed at fujoshis are niche even in Japan let alone the world.
Looks like it's more or less guaranteed, unless shortages come back in full force. Mario and MH weeks should more than compensate for any sub-100k weeks.
Switch could be close to 20 million by the end of March thanks to those bundles. If Switch Pro comes out this Fall it will be having the 3DS by year's end. That would just leave 8 million to go coming off a peak year.
Yes, I said over 50M because as an iterative successor, it wouldn't catch every DS user that a successor would, and it would have been on sale for a shorter period of time, basically through 2016 and maybe through 1H 2017, but support for the 3DS would have moved over to Switch faster, as iterative successors don't carry the same market saturation levels that a new platform would have, the benefit is that they carry momentum better from the current device and cross gen is a bit easier... Because DS had a very stiff development environment, it wouldn't have made sense to do an iterative successor, as development would have had to be carried between very different architectures, however now and days, engines run on everything, so the developer environment of Switch and it's successor will be very similar, meaning you can make one game and release it on both platforms, similar to PS4/PS5 or Linux and Windows.
I predict a slight drop the next week to just over 100k, just because I can't imagine the Switch selling more again, and then in the launch week of SM3DW+BF 150k+, also thanks to the Mario edition.
SoS and BD2 will lead to another 120k+ week, I hope. So there might be one or two sub 100k weeks in early to mid March, but not lower than 80k, because of the soe.
MHR week will be huge but likely below 300k.
SoS and BD2 will lead to another 120k+ week, I hope. So there might be one or two sub 100k weeks in early to mid March, but not lower than 80k, because of the soe.
MHR week will be huge but likely below 300k.
That's why I'm saying the Switch will sell 33mil. I honestly think it's possible even without a new model. The Switch just wouldn't outsell 3DS LT sales this year.
That very much depends on what nintendo does, it's a lofty goal never the less though.