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Follow up to the tweet from the other day to the article.
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View: https://twitter.com/6d6f636869/status/1750865585272234092?t=i0_YkWcDQ-SOnSqSL4BIDQ&s=19
Follow up to the tweet from the other day to the article.
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It's not a "followup to a tweet" it's the journo reboosting his article for which there's already a thread with a billion posts lol
10 million doesn't seem like a lot? Didn't PS5 do more than that in its first year even with the chip shortage?
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I could have my numbers mixed up but I think it was 15 million for Switch in its first year.
Note: the Switch 2 is very likely likely launching by September at the earliest so that's why it would be less.
Important to remember that this device won't have a full fiscal year until FY2026, beginning in April 2025.
The suggestion here is that the device ships in a September-October timeframe, which means it will have a maximum of two quarters in Nintendo's upcoming FY2024 (and, even then, it wouldn't have two full quarters unless it releases September 2nd...which it could, but likely won't)
This would put it on par with the Switch during those equivalent quarters in FY2018 (meaning Oct-Dec 2017 and Jan-Mar 2018):
The suggestion here is that the device ships in a September-October timeframe, which means it will have a maximum of two quarters in Nintendo's upcoming FY2024 (and, even then, it wouldn't have two full quarters unless it releases September 2nd...which it could, but likely won't)
This would put it on par with the Switch during those equivalent quarters in FY2018 (meaning Oct-Dec 2017 and Jan-Mar 2018):
- Q3 FY2018 - 7.2 million Switch units sold
- Q4 FY2018 - 2.9 million Switch units sold
- Total: 10.1 million
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PS5 sold almost 8 million in the time period they're describing here, and that was virtually every unit that they could ship at the time.
its gonna be hard getting consoles year one from switch 1 onward
Good work here, i was going to dig up Switch sales for comparison.
You're right that the 10 million+ is likely only going to be for at most 2 quarters.
The silver lining to me is, with shipments this large, Nintendo must feel quite confident and i suspect it will be what everyone wants, just a more powerful Switch, with an interesting gimmick, but ultimately, it's iterative, more powerful and has full BC.
Someone in the other thread was able to narrow down when the system will likely drop based on the information this article provided…
That post should be thread marked or the OP should be updated or else this thread will be full of the same comment.
I've decided that I hope it's called the Switch 2. It gives off PS2 vibes and it absolutely works
Literally read your comment above as soon as I posted that lol. Yeah that's a lot for launch.
As long as it's fully backwards compatible with the games I bought on Switch, both digital and physical, I am so down.
I think/hope they'll launch before then so the launch rush/holiday rush don't completely overlap with one another.
I feel we could get announcement any time now. Just a hunch, no inside info or anything, but it feels the right time.
Gamecube, Wii, and Wii U all launched in November. Doesn't really mean anything but Xbox and PlayStation tend to release in that month as well.
Regardless, it's 10 million units in a relative short period of time signaling that hopefully supply won't be an issue.
It took Switch 9 months to reach 10 million.
Say they launched in November so it should take 5 months to be sold within the fisical year 2024.
Say they launched in November so it should take 5 months to be sold within the fisical year 2024.
I hope they can crank out a ton. It was easy to preorder a Switch. But, everything big just sells out instantly now thanks to flippers and bots.
I really appreciated that Sony invited PSN members to order directly.
I'm honestly not too sure about November. Not only would that go against Eurogamer mentioning that Nintendo wants to launch the system sooner if possible, it would also step on the toes of Pokémon (which is likely still Switch 1-only this year).
September or October make more sense while still fitting with the "holiday period" timeframe mentioned by Bloomberg.
I don't see Nintendo wanting to launch anywhere near the 2024 election. My guess is September at the latest if it's this year at all.
