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Nintendo sold 2.6m units of hardware in the US during December 2017 (1.5m Switch, 750k 3DS)
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3DS top screen is 400x240. Bottom screen is 320x240. Both layed out horizontally would be 720x240, which easily fits on the Switch's 1280x720 screen. Of course that would be a little small, so you'd want to blow them up to about 1.5 times that much, 1080x360. Actually you could even make the top screen double size.
Yeah, indie games and digital sales make it clear that third parties are benefiting. I suppose I was more curious about retail sales haha.
Now let's hope it stays solid haha
I think Pika might have potential based on as you said the movie- but I wouldn't bet on it.
And they're all Nintendo games. I can understand other publishers ditching the 3DS, but Nintendo's known output for 2018 is head scratching. The 3DS is still making them a lot of money, and yet they barely have any software announced for it in 2018
It is 1.5M in the US for December. It should already have passed the Wii U LTD.
No lie, Nintendo 3DS's peak year in the Americas was its first year.
Source: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/finance/historical_data/xls/consolidated_sales_e1703.xlsx
Incredible numbers. I really do think Nintendo is killing it lately, both with respect to the design and creativity of the Switch itself, right through to this Labo thing, and games like BotW and Odyssey. Kudos to them, they deserve their success.
As a personal thing, my only wish is that they pushed for better hardware specs and offered better pricing. Other than that, they've been delivering. Question is, can they carry this momentum in to 2019, I'm going to go ahead and guess that they can.
As a personal thing, my only wish is that they pushed for better hardware specs and offered better pricing. Other than that, they've been delivering. Question is, can they carry this momentum in to 2019, I'm going to go ahead and guess that they can.
They may yet announce games for it, I expect one final Zelda game at least.
I also hope we can get some details on Third Party sales. I expect they have done well but it would be nice to get some details, especially on some specific titles. There were some saying that Doom was a failure and it would be nice to get legit data to show how it actually done.
We're likely getting a full general Direct within a month. I also expect several 3DS announcements that will upset some people around here.
part of the reason I thought the game was getting remade for the Switch was because of timing with the movie. I was expecting a release within months of each other. a full year between the game and the movie sounds like a lack of synergy, but I guess that's just due to the game being made first, then the movie deal was cut with Legendary.
They were second place both months though?
Or do they have the highest cumulative sales?
That would be a nice surprise. It's just a bit strange that we know less about the 3DS lineup than we do the Switch for the first half of the year. They could've thrown us a bone in the mini direct last week. I'm assuming at this point with this alleged direct next month we'll get the full picture on the 3DS. I know lots of people on here just want it to go away, but I'm holding on to mine for the upcoming Atlus games, and some more Nintendo support would just be the icing on the cake.
Haha, that's exactly what I'm thinking. Lots of "this should be on the Switch" and "why is Nintendo still supporting this dead platform"
I'll be happy though
damn, that's crazy
Nintendo dominated the holiday season, it seems, and it looks like 2018 is already in the bag for them too looking at Labo
Nintendo dominated the holiday season, it seems, and it looks like 2018 is already in the bag for them too looking at Labo
That's pretty big. Those two regions represented about 50%-55% of total sales as of September 30th, so total sell-through might be 7+ million. That would mean they will have shipped almost 15 million as of the end of the year.
PS4 numbers at least, don't think I've seen XBO numbers (prior to this year's) posted
With the Switch being an INSANE success so far, I don't think it really matters anymore if Nintendo continues to release 3DS software.
I think initially the reason people were upset is they were afraid Switch wouldn't sell well so Nintendo not putting 100% of their efforts behind the system was seen as a risky strategy. Now it really doesn't make much of a difference.
I don't know. They're going to be using Labo to bring kids over to the Switch and its pricing.
If it catches on, price cuts may not be needed.
It was the best hardware they could offer at the time the Switch was developed. It has top notch specs.
You have to realize that the whole console is slightly larger than a PS4 game case, and that's including a screen and battery. It was almost impossible to deliver better specs for the price/size.
Both down.
PS4 - 1.080.000 VS 1.568.000
XB1 - 1.365.000 VS 1.511.000
PS4 drop is more than expect, was selling at a bigger price than last year, and with XB1 at 189$.
XB1, well, was down YOY for the most time, and by a huge margin, was up in November thanks better promotion than last year + XB1X boost, but now is down YOY again. Not saying XB1 sales are bad, but the trend is not looking good imo.
That must have been what Greenberg's tweet was about. Highest share for the holiday season thanks to December sales? Or something nonsensical like that.
I thought it was mostly agreed that DOOM sold decent for what it was. Didn't completely bomb but didn't sell great like skyrim. I thought for Nov. it was guessed around 80K?
Japan roughly 25%, US roughly 30%.
Both are a little over, so 55%-60% is a better range.
I believe in terms of volume the US has sold ~50% more units than Japan.
I remember back at gaf, someone said Nintendo won't sell over 2 million Switches during nov-dec period.
I'm surprised at its success. I knew it would do well, but not as well and as fast.
I'm surprised at its success. I knew it would do well, but not as well and as fast.
Remember we talk about sold VS shipments... but yes, even then, the difference is not that big (is not like Switch is overshipped or something, more like undershipped considering the stocks problems).
People there just unerestimate way too much the rest of the world. And for Rest of the world i don't talk about Europe alone. Asia outside of Japan count. Africa count.
Hell, America outside of US count, A LOT. Canada should be at 400K Switch (was at 200K 4 months ago).
There are more markets than US/EU/JP...
December 2016 was XB1's highest selling ever month in NPD.
December 2017 numbers are incredibly solid for XB1.
I assumed this was a pretty straightforward joke lol, I'm mocking people who were implying the Labo reveal would have a perceivable negative impact on Nintendo's core business.
Well, if it were to, we'd have to wait until the next month to see, since these are December numbers.
Of course, the very notion is ridiculous.