Switch smashes 800k target in France, 911k units sold in 2017

ggx2ac · Jan 11, 2018

References: http://www.lefigaro.fr/secteur/high...un-des-champions-de-noel.php?redirect_premium

http://nintendoeverything.com/nintendo-france-on-switch-sales-expectations-games-3ds/

Credit to toutoune134 and Figaro for the information.

toutoune134 said:
This is worth a thread but I can't make one so here are the Nintendo sales number for france from Figaro. Feel free to create a thread with those information.

Switch consoles sold in 2017: 911k (much above expectations)
In comparison, WII sold 703k in 10 months and PS4 650k also in 10 months.
459k Switch consoles sold in November-December
Should reach 1 million at the end of February, as much as the PS4 in 1 year.
507k 3DS sold in 2017
4.8 million games sold in 2017
Super mario Odyssey and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe are both > 500k. Could have been more for Odyssey but there were stock shortages.
Zelda Botw = 410k sold on Switch
Mario + Rabbids = 150k
Third party softwares represent 26% of the games (not specified if switch only or 3DS games are also included in this number) sold in france.

How it compares to other platforms lifetime sales, credit to wrowa

wrowa said:
For comparison's sake, these are French sales numbers for other platforms as of March 2017 according to Gameblog/GfK

Consoles:

Wii : 6,293 millions

PS3 : 5,235 millions

Xbox 360 : 3,379 millions

PS4 : 3,221 millions

Xbox One : 1,026 millions

Wii U : 832.000

Handhelds:

DS : 10,596 millions

3DS : 4,765 millions

PSP : 3,582 millions

PS Vita : 535.000

So, Switch already outsold Wii U and is probably relatively close to Xbox One's total sales as well.

More software numbers:

Lelouch0612 said:
More numbers :

SMO : 512k
MK8D : 508k
Zelda BotW : 410k
Splatoon 2 : 252k
M+R : >150k
FIFA 18 : 73k
Just Dance 18 > 50k
Rayman Legends > 50k

Third party ratio on Switch : 26%
Third party ratio on 3DS : 11%

SNES mini : 221k

"best console launch ever"

https://www.challenges.fr/high-tech...t-mieux-en-france-que-la-wii-et-la-ps4_559269

TimeFire · Jan 11, 2018

Wow. Almost one million in Frace only. I know France is one of Nintendo's strongest euro markets but it's still impressive.

Switch is slaying.

Martin · Jan 11, 2018

Smash and switch in a title made me happy for a few secondes :(

But wow that is awesome! Switch deserved it

Mory Dunz · Jan 11, 2018

Ody and Mk8d over 500k is something else.

Mario + Rabbids shooting for that 3m (and eventually 4m). I've been telling you guys.

Zalman · Jan 11, 2018

It's great to see it do so well in European countries as well.

bananas · Jan 11, 2018

switch did 911

thousand?

Oregano · Jan 11, 2018

God damn.

That's actually impressive.

Kelanflyter · Jan 11, 2018

Clearly a better market than UK for Nintendo Europe.
Reminder that WiiU sold quit good here, probably the Only country with relatively good WiiU sales with Japan.

wrowa · Jan 11, 2018

For comparison's sake, these are French sales numbers for other platforms as of the end of 2016 according to Gameblog/GfK

Consoles:

Wii : 6,293 millions
PS3 : 5,235 millions
Xbox 360 : 3,379 millions
PS4 : 3,221 millions
Xbox One : 1,026 millions
Wii U : 832.000

Handhelds:

DS : 10,596 millions
3DS : 4,765 millions
PSP : 3,582 millions
PS Vita : 535.000

So, Switch already outsold Wii U and is probably relatively close to Xbox One's total sales as well.

Jon Carter · Jan 11, 2018

911, I'm reporting a slaying.

Deleted member 24550 · Jan 11, 2018

Zut alors

Datajoy · Jan 11, 2018

bananas said:
switch did 911

thousand?

Dock rails cant scratch plastic screens.

Lelouch0612 · Jan 11, 2018

Fantastic results !

Software has been doing very well here and multiple titles have faced severe shortages (Mario Odyssey, Xenoblade etc).

Deleted member 24550 · Jan 11, 2018

Datajoy said:
Dock rails cant scratch plastic screens.

Ay lmao

Mory Dunz · Jan 11, 2018

So it likely passed Wii U, and will probably pass the XB1 before next holiday season I assume.

Deleted member 21326 · Jan 11, 2018

Glad that Nintendo has turned the ship around, after the wiiu. Heres hoping the 2018 lineup can keep momentum. Afterall theres a direct comming soon, riiiiighhhhht guys?????

Starmud · Jan 11, 2018

amazing on switch; not awful for 3DS given its placement in the market?

if we could get an idea on germany, it seems itay/france have held a strong turn around so far

jariw · Jan 11, 2018

Are there any countries left that didn't sell more Switches during 2017 than LTD Wii Us?

Puroresu_kid · Jan 11, 2018

Nice. Another example of not looking at the UK as whole of Europe.

3DS numbers seem to very good for a dying platform.

Deleted member 21326 · Jan 11, 2018

jariw said:
Are there any countries left that didn't sell more Switches during 2017 than LTD Wii Us?

Im 100% sure Denmark is one of those.

Hoshigumi · Jan 11, 2018

I really want to see Nintendo crack the UK more so than they have in the past, I feel out-numbered over here!

Glad to see them doing well over in EU though :)

Limabean01 · Jan 11, 2018

That's crazy good. It's always good to see the industry healthy.

wrowa said:
For comparison's sake, these are French sales numbers for other platforms as of March 2017 according to Gameblog/GfK

Consoles:

Wii : 6,293 millions

PS3 : 5,235 millions

Xbox 360 : 3,379 millions

PS4 : 3,221 millions

Xbox One : 1,026 millions

Wii U : 832.000

Handhelds:

DS : 10,596 millions

3DS : 4,765 millions

PSP : 3,582 millions

PS Vita : 535.000

So, Switch already outsold Wii U and is probably relatively close to Xbox One's total sales as well.

Almost 1/3 of PS4 and 1/5 of 3DS LTD after 10 months?!

Deleted member 5491 · Jan 11, 2018

Earlier reports suggested this trend.
France was always big for Nintendo. It's their love
for japanese Culture in media in general.

That's why don't get it why NoE focuses so hard on the
UK market. They are weak there since... ever

ZhugeEX · Jan 11, 2018

Strong hardware and software sales for Nintendo Switch in France. The attach rates on first party software are extremely impressive. This also shows that there is quite a big gap between France and the UK with the former being the larger of the two.

Mediking · Jan 11, 2018

Hecka nice

Pokémon · Jan 11, 2018

Puroresu_kid said:
Nice. Another example of not looking at the UK as whole of Europe.

3DS numbers seem to very good for a dying platform.

Yep, UK seems more and more like an outlier. Still I wish we would get more concrete numbers for other European countries.

Oregano · Jan 11, 2018

Limabean01 said:
That's crazy good. It's always good to see the industry healthy.

Almost 1/3 of PS4 and 1/5 of 3DS LTD after 10 months?!

Those are LTD are only up to March 2017 so it's probably more like 1/4 and 1/5 respectively.

Mr. Pointy · Jan 11, 2018

I remember Nintendo France saying they thought the Switch would beat the Wii U's LTD in year 1 and no one believed them.

Ephonk · Jan 11, 2018

Mory Dunz said:
So it likely passed Wii U, and will probably pass the XB1 before next holiday season I assume.

I don't think Xbox had a huge uptick in sales since that march '17 number, it's selling quite low in FR and mainland Europe.
If they sell about ~60.000 switches a month they should jump over xbox by summer.

chromatic9 · Jan 11, 2018

Kelanflyter said:
Clearly a better market than UK for Nintendo Europe.
Reminder that WiiU sold quit good here, probably the Only country with relatively good WiiU sales with Japan.

France Wii U 742k
UK Wii U over 700k

Lets stop with the myths

2016 numbers

Deleted member 35598 · Jan 11, 2018

So in 10 months, the Switch did the 3rd of what the PS4 did in more than 4 years ? Jesus-Christ !!!

Deleted member 5491 · Jan 11, 2018

Ephonk said:
Before summer, i don't think Xbox had a huge uptick in sales, it's selling quite low in FR and mainland Europe.

Europe never was XBox Land. Always PlayStation.
UK was the only market during the 360 era, where the XBox could hold
one on its own.

Mory Dunz · Jan 11, 2018

Ephonk said:
Before summer, i don't think Xbox had a huge uptick in sales, it's selling quite low in FR and mainland Europe.

I was going to put summer, but then I thought, eh it got christmas and the X since march 2017, so maybe it got a boost.
But yeah, summer is likely

Limabean01 · Jan 11, 2018

Oregano said:
Those are LTD are only up to March 2017 so it's probably more like 1/4 and 1/5 respectively.

Yeah, speaking of which I wonder how well PS4 did this year in France.

Either way, a great result :p

Lelouch0612 · Jan 11, 2018

More numbers :

SMO : 512k
MK8D : 508k
Zelda BotW : 410k
Splatoon 2 : 252k
M+R : >150k
FIFA 18 : 73k
Just Dance 18 > 50k
Rayman Legends > 50k

Third party ratio on Switch : 26%
Third party ratio on 3DS : 11%

SNES mini : 221k

"best console launch ever"

https://www.challenges.fr/high-tech...t-mieux-en-france-que-la-wii-et-la-ps4_559269

Datajoy · Jan 11, 2018

So mainland Europe loves Sony and Nintendo, UK loves Sony and likes MS, Japan loves Nintendo and likes Sony, and USA loves everybody?

Mory Dunz · Jan 11, 2018

ZhugeEX said:
Strong hardware and software sales for Nintendo Switch in France. The attach rates on first party software are extremely impressive. This also shows that there is quite a big gap between France and the UK with the former being the larger of the two.

France is bigger overall or...?

Paradox House · Jan 11, 2018

So thats where all the switches are going!

silva1991 · Jan 11, 2018

Very impressive. I wonder what's the latest PS4 number by the end of last year?

marc^o^ · Jan 11, 2018

Switch will pass XBox One LTD in coming months in France, telling quite a story for Nintendo and Microsoft performances there.

Arkert · Jan 11, 2018

26% of sales third party and

In comparison, WII sold 703k in 10 months and PS4 650k also in 10 months.
459k Switch consoles sold in November-December

Impressive!

ZhugeEX · Jan 11, 2018

Mory Dunz said:
France is bigger overall or...?

For the Nintendo Switch I mean.

Apologies for not being clear there.

KingSnake · Jan 11, 2018

These are some impressive numbers. Good attach rates for the game too.

Lelouch0612 said:
FIFA 18 : 73k

That's not bad at all.

Kane · Jan 11, 2018

France is the best country <3

Mory Dunz · Jan 11, 2018

Lelouch0612 said:
More numbers :

SMO : 512k
MK8D : 508k
Zelda BotW : 410k
Splatoon 2 : 252k
M+R : >150k
FIFA 18 : 73k
Just Dance 18 > 50k
Rayman Legends > 50k

Third party ratio on Switch : 26%
Third party ratio on 3DS : 11%

https://www.challenges.fr/high-tech...t-mieux-en-france-que-la-wii-et-la-ps4_559269

Love the smell of ~~salvage~~ numbers

Too bad we don't get ARMS.

Not sure what to make of FIFA. I assume France is one of the Switch's highest FIFA SKUs. Maybe the highest in Europe. But it's only a little higher than Japan's SKU.
Is Japan's FIFA performing exceptionally well, mainland Europe's FIFA performing poorly, or both?

I feel like both. But then again it was never going to be higher than games like M+R...

ZhugeEX said:
For the Nintendo Switch I mean.

Apologies for not being clear there.

no problem

Ephonk · Jan 11, 2018

BTW: For Fifa, the numbers we know (Japan + FR) put fifa at 135k without digital. It's not selling super well but is keeping some legs and certainly isn't a complete flop for the effort they put in.

Mory Dunz said:
Not sure what to make of FIFA. I assume France is one of the Switch's highest FIFA SKUs. Maybe the highest in Europe. But it's only a little higher than Japan's SKU.
Is Japan's FIFA performing exceptionally well, mainland Europe's FIFA performing poorly, or both?

It's having decent legs after bad/mediocre first week sales. I'd assume the trend everywhere is similar.
It's not the first game a switch owner buys, but it's a game the pick up because it's fifa on the go.

Nightbird · Jan 11, 2018

Datajoy said:
So mainland Europe loves Sony and Nintendo, UK loves Sony and likes MS, Japan loves Nintendo and likes Sony, and USA loves everybody?

Seems about right

MANUELF · Jan 11, 2018

The best part is that Switch owners are buying A LOT of software

Arkert · Jan 11, 2018

MANUELF said:
The best part is that Switch owners are buying A LOT of software

And that's without eShop games.

Sgt. Demblant · Jan 11, 2018

Wow, above the Wii and PS4. And I was happy to contribute.
Still, I'm surprised because I didn't notice the same kind of frenzy at retail that there was for the Wii. But that's purely anecdotal of course, and I assume that plenty of people bought it online like I did.

And while it's true to an extent that France is "Nintendo territory", I believe the country is just friendlier to Japanese games (and pop culture) in general, certainly much more than the UK or even America. Sony has always done gangbusters here.

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