Made it to the beach pizza joint, the "PB Hot Chick" basically buffalo chicken pizza. And yes, weasled.
Talk about not knowing how to take something lol
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PR: Switch surpasses Wii in best-selling Nintendo console in US on BF+CM. +115% HW over 2017
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Made it to the beach pizza joint, the "PB Hot Chick" basically buffalo chicken pizza. And yes, weasled.
Talk about not knowing how to take something lol
I feel like this is what is wrong with your calculations. There is no way the peak 5 days only account for 80% of sales in the week, right ? Do we have any number showing us the split between the different days of the Thanksgiving week ?
On the other hand, as we can see from this thread (and a few examples in the past) when Nintendo ballparks a number (like 350k or 800k) they often underestimate the number rather than overestimate it. So it could be possible that instead of 800k it was 830k or 850k.
But wouldn't they have said "more than 800k" if that was the case ?
I'm expecting Pokémon to be huge next year with the new game, movie and a Switch price drop.
Edit: The thing is, it's really hard to calculate anything as there are too many approximations:
-"more than doubled"
-"to about 800,000"
-"from about 350,000"
Well for one it's literally 80% methodology and legitimate sales discussion instead of 80% BEAST and TALENT WINS, so that's a nice change of pace for these guys.
Ah yeah, those are some confusing numbers...
I guess the best we can guess is somewhere within 25k of each of those numbers. If it was 774k or less or 826k or more they probably would've gone with 750k or 850k.
Either way I don't think we can assume the 350 and 800 numbers are caps, it's possible they went slightly over those too.
Also, the thing is, this is unlikely. Or at least, the opposite could be true. Nintendo is known to be conservative in the numbers they give, as we've seen throughout this thread. So, they probably would not give a number higher than reality. Which also would not be a safe thing to do, as investors could be disappointed if what Nintendo announced as "about 800k" was in reality "less than 800k".
The "around 800,000" could simply be interpretated as "very close to 800,000", ever slightly less or slightly more, but nothing meaningful (770k in your example would mean a 30k approximation, that's a lot, if this number was true, I believe they would have said something like "more than 750k" which does not change anything, the three facts you listed would still be true, but it would spin it positively)
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Basically, though I don't think the "or 826k or more" part of your post is true, as that would mean they inflated their numbers, which I don't think is a good thing to do
These group think threads puzzling out a problem are super fun, they make sales era for me.
it is also more fun if you have a horse in the race, but people have to hide it. ;-)
I guess "about" means different things to different people. I see that they're willing to announce numbers in 50k increments (with about 350k) and that would make me think they'd be okay rounding up or down to the nearest 50k. In my industry though "about" is often assumed to mean "within 10%" which in this case would be a larger range.
Basically I don't think there's anyway to determine what the number is so the best bet is to take it at face value and assume it was very close to 800k.
Anyone knows how these numbers compare to the Nintendo DS and 3DS ?
Technically the switch is doing double duty for Nintendo as a home AND portable console, which was obviously a stroke of genius on Nintendo's part, so I am not at all surprised it smashing Wii records.
Needless the say, these are delightful news for all switch owners. Things will continue to look good as I expect Metroid prime and Bayo3 in 2019/early 2020 another zelda in late 2020/early 2021 at the latest.
Technically the switch is doing double duty for Nintendo as a home AND portable console, which was obviously a stroke of genius on Nintendo's part, so I am not at all surprised it smashing Wii records.
Needless the say, these are delightful news for all switch owners. Things will continue to look good as I expect Metroid prime and Bayo3 in 2019/early 2020 another zelda in late 2020/early 2021 at the latest.
I mean, those games are awesome, but they are clearly not system-sellers. And even Zelda is not the best exemple.
In 2019, the big confirmed system-sellers are NSMBUDX, Animal Crossing and Pokémon.
Don't know about the US specifically, but worldwide DS did 35.61 million by the end of 2006, which would align with Switch's March 31st 2019. DS went beast mode shortly after that, though, so that one will gallop off towards the horizon in the aligned years to come.
3ds would be at 31.1M by the launch aligned date of March 31st 2019 for Switch.
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But Japan needs to catch up. Using the 1.3m Nov and 2m Dec USA prediction, Japan would need to sell 890K Nov (it has sold 405K) and 1.37m Dec to keep the 24% current Switch shipment share.
Haha, no unfortunately not. I've been using this name as my internet handle since like 06/07 though :P
Yeah Japan is likely gonna lag behind their usual 24-25% share unless December really over performs. Luckily it looks like the US might overperform a bit.
Yes and no. In overall numbers, of course- but that's a function of the market being bigger and also not nearly as impacted by mobile. In terms of actual market share, Japan is probably Nintendo's top market. Its just a smaller market.
Not really. Even adjusting by popilation, Nintendo systems sell more in North America sans the DSes and SNES.
I don't think you're fully understanding my point- Japan's dedicated gaming market has severely contracted so yes, in absolute numbers Nintendo's share of the pie from Japan is smaller- but the pie that is there is dominated by Nintendo, in contrast to other markets where PS4 is in a much better position.
What schuelma seems to be saying is that Nintendo has a larger share of the people who actually buy dedicated gaming systems in Japan than they do in other markets.
edit: confirmed above
With the switches great success I hope they release this.
With a 5.5inch screen and a small bezel.
With a 5.5inch screen and a small bezel.
Just a reminder the population of Japan is around 126 million and the population of the US is around 325 million. Wii U has sold over 3 million in Japan. For it to do more in NA, adjusted by population it would have had to sell around 8 million when instead it sold a little over 6 million and that was for the whole of the Americas.
Edit: If anything all the data shows is that in recent years Japan does not like home consoles as much as the US (something we already knew) and is nothing to do with Nintendo not being as popular.
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Retailers already had Stock in the channels going into this fiscal year. So basically 20 million shipped means 20 million sold at this point. Retailers are not going to stuff another million in shipping channels
Didn't Nintendo actually report they've sold 9.13m Switch in America as at 30 September 2018?
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2018/181030e.pdf
I'm sure most of those sales come from the US, so the number from the start already doesn't add up.
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2018/181030e.pdf
I'm sure most of those sales come from the US, so the number from the start already doesn't add up.
With the switches great success I hope they release this.
With a 5.5inch screen and a small bezel.
Lel, that looks exactly like a Switch SP.
With the switches great success I hope they release this.
With a 5.5inch screen and a small bezel.
Hmm. Not a bad mockup.
Needs to be dockable though.
NSMB is getting a switch release too?? They really are releasing every single WiiU game for the switch, aren't they? As a WiiU owner, I can't say I'm thrilled about it, but everybody who skipped it must be feeling pretty happy with themselves ;)
Thanks for the numbers. So if I understand correctly, the switch is tracking to sell around the same numbers as the 3DS?
Obviously, the DS was a crazy beast, and benefitted from Japan still buying consoles at that point. Nintendo will never match those numbers again. Not when everybody has a smartphone.
With the switches great success I hope they release this.
With a 5.5inch screen and a small bezel.
I firmly believe that the JoyCon is the best motherf***ing controller in history. By far, and the best thing about the Nintendo Switch. Nintendo should be really, really proud of it.
Do you really think there is a chance Nintendo would release a console version without their best feature?
3DS was different because 3D was a stupid gimmick that strains the eyes and makes things unnecessarily fuzzy if you move your head a millimeter to the side. One could say it was the console's worst feature.
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For me, I just want a switch I can put it my pocket and a clamshell would make that possible, no need to worry about damage in the pocket.
It for that market, people who want a hybrid can get a that standard or switch pro if they make one.
That number is for "the Americas" - North and South America.