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Nintendo Switch Sold Over 110k in Korea in Dec

sinonobu

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According to Nintendo of Korea's post on Kakao Story (Korean SNS) Switch sales had surpassed 55k in just 3 days.

This is record breaking sales not only beating the launch week sales of Nintendo DS, 3DS, and Wii, but also over launch month sales of those devices, too.

https://story.kakao.com/ch/nintendokorea/HJKt1WYtbgA

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Update : Switch sold over 110k on December.

http://sports.news.naver.com/esports/news/read.nhn?oid=356&aid=0000023382
 
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Renna Hazel

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This is a market I'm completely unfamiliar with. What have consoles like PS4 and the Wii sold here lifetime? I always thought SK was much more of a PC market, by a large margin.
 
ZhugeEX

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Strong opening for Switch in Korea.

Wii and PS2 are the only consoles there to sell over 1 million consoles. So that should give people a rough size of the market. Console is still very niche there compared to Mobile / PC.

PS4 is the current leader in SK and Sony have done really well growing the market there.

Nintendo off to a good start with launch. Most analysts expect maybe 150k units to be sold in 2018 there.
 
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Renna Hazel said:
This is a market I'm completely unfamiliar with. What have consoles like PS4 and the Wii sold here lifetime? I always thought SK was much more of a PC market, by a large margin.
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It would only be a couple of a million: (All I could find at a quick glance)

As of December 27, 2007, the DS had sold over 1 million units in South Korea, according to Nintendo of Korea.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_DS_sales
 
TheMisterManGuy

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South Korea is pretty similar to Japan in terms of size and population density, so it's a given the Switch was able to sell this much there.
 

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By Korea do you mean South Korea?

There are two Koreas and they are entirely separate countries.

I can't imagine many outside companies can sell in North Korea, though
 

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TheMisterManGuy said:
South Korea is pretty similar to Japan in terms of size and population density, so it's a given the Switch was able to sell this much there.
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Can't compare Japan to rest of Asia.
Japan is the only country in Asia where console is bigger than PC.
Also if you are talking about population density, Japan problem of highly concentrated population in capital city is very common in Asia. It does not only apply to Japan and South Korea.
 

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TheMisterManGuy said:
South Korea is pretty similar to Japan in terms of size and population density, so it's a given the Switch was able to sell this much there.
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Markets not even close to similar. Japan's game culture is pretty unique in the world.

Wiped said:
By Korea do you mean South Korea?

There are two Koreas and they are entirely separate countries.

I can't imagine many outside companies can sell in North Korea, though
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C'mom, this is a non-post. Obviously we're talking about South Korea.
 
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The latest MK8Deluxe update added Chinese support, it looks like they are aiming for a release there in 2018 too. Nintendo didn't pay attention for smaller/emerging markets for a very long time, I hope they correct this mistake with the Switch.
 
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Nintendo has been needing to get into emergence markets since the Wii.
The Switch, though, seems like s good choice to push ahead with on capturing new markets.
 
Dekuman

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Korea is tough market for them too. They shuttered Nintendo of Korea or severely reduced its staff during the Wii U era.

I think it is a good practice run for China as Korea appears to share similar traits as Chinese.
Big in PC games. Consoles a non factor for a long time due to ban on Japanese consoles there until recently.
 
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ZhugeEX said:
PS4 is the current leader in SK and Sony have done really well growing the market there.

Nintendo off to a good start with launch. Most analysts expect maybe 150k units to be sold in 2018 there.
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That must be on the low end though? I find it hard to believe they'll only do three times the launch week in the entire following year.
 
dadjumper

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That's neat! I hope this means there will be some Korean developed games for the Switch in the future.
SK seems like a really interesting market, especially for Nintendo. It's wild that they didn't get the DS until the DSi.
 
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didnt we hear that NetMarble or Nexon was looking into Switch development? would be interesting to see their MMOs make the jump from mobile to the Switch. if sales continue on this trajectory, they might be a viable option given the games are already on portables
 
Atheerios

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hussien-11 said:
The latest MK8Deluxe update added Chinese support, it looks like they are aiming for a release there in 2018 too. Nintendo didn't pay attention for smaller/emerging markets for a very long time, I hope they correct this mistake with the Switch.
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Nope. That's because they recently launched in Taiwan.

There are no plans for mainland China yet.
 
Grapezard

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I wonder what markets the Switch'll pierce next?

BREAKING NEWS: Switch sells 200K first week in Antartica!
 
TheMisterManGuy

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Marukoban said:
Can't compare Japan to rest of Asia.
Japan is the only country in Asia where console is bigger than PC.
Also if you are talking about population density, Japan problem of highly concentrated population in capital city is very common in Asia. It does not only apply to Japan and South Korea.
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I'm not saying the markets are simillar necessarily. I'm just saying that South Korea is simillar in terms of size and population density. But you are right that this can apply to most Asian countries in general.
 
HPH

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Love these updates on Korea, thank you sinonobu. Seems like a very good launch for Switch, I'd love to see how the Switch has fared in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
 
Igor

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Hope the good sales will mean we will see DJ max ported over. I would kill for a chance to play it on a portable again.

Technica was not for me.
 
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