December gonna be a fun month.
PS4 #1 through August. PS4 will have huge win in Sept due to Pro Spider bundle. Imagine PS4 takes October due to momentum, as well. November is all about the deals, but since PS4/XB1 do the biggest deals in November, Switch still not taking November.
Then Smash hits. In traditionally the biggest month for Nintendo consoles (still, by a long shot). In gift-giving season. Was it still supply constrained last December? That makes a significant difference, too. There are people who
only consider buying consoles in Nov/Dec, so it being available after last Fall wouldn't make a difference to those people.
If Switch takes the year, it'll be because of a monumental December. Not sure if I believe it has it in it, but it's certainly setting itself up to give a good effort to do so!
Edit:
If PS4 has < 1m unit lead YTD going into December, Switch has a good chance of taking the year, I think.
DSi had over 500 exclusives.
I like you. People seem to treat the digital DSiWare store as not counting for some reason. :lol:
Edit:
Yeah, I would imagine that they'll be publishing the specific SKU number, which obviously will give subscribers the number of games sold.
I guess what my question boils down to is whether they track physical sales of download codes, or if those are treated the same as actual on-eshop purchases as far as what they are allowed to report goes.
Some review:
* Manufacture bundled software is not counted in the software totals, but the hardware SKU is tracked separately in the full hardware chart subscribers get.
* Store bundles are treated as separate items, for comparison.
Good question on the POS cards. NPD tracks everything sold at the register, so they are aware of the POS card sales. Not sure how they're counted, though.
MatPiscatella , are POS cards tracked as physical software, accessories, or digital software?
Now, we do track sales of Nintendo digital sold via Game Cards purchased at retail. However, these sales are not included for calculating the software sales charts.
Hope that's helpful. Lot of minutiae in how the reporting is put together.
So the POS cards are counted as digital sales, and NPD reports those sales only for the companies they have permission to report digital sales, then?
Thanks!