He was on point, but switch sales being 3.5% above his expectations does not really mean he underestimated anything, that's almost statistical noise at this point.
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Nintendo France: Switch sold 1.13 millions in 2018, above expectations and higher than in 2017 [UPDATED]
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He was on point, but switch sales being 3.5% above his expectations does not really mean he underestimated anything, that's almost statistical noise at this point.
That was called tongue-in-cheek.
You're right obviously but I was being deliberately facetious.
Mario Kart will keep selling through the switch lifetime. Its the go to game for new switch owners.
Between UK,France,Germany the big 3, 2018 sell through would have be around 3 million+
Trying to figure out how many Switch units sold for all of Europe
At the very least it's an indication that France probably did their part for that goal, yeah.
Didn't Switch sell like 850k in the UK?
So around 1.9 million in two European markets alone?
I think there is a real chance Deluxe sells more than Mario Kart Wii... Something that was simply UNTHINKABLE !!
Even more impressive when you know that they have been negatively impacted by the protests of the « yellow vests » (like every retail in France).
Yep.
It's usurped the Dreamcast for me. As a kid, playing something like Skyrim, Zelda, Doom or Smash Bros portable would have made me shit my pants.
They need more than that. Around +33% for whole FY. If the global increase this year is same as in France (and UK) and that translates directly to shipments Switch shipped little over 18 million units this year which would mean little over 10 million for Q3 and would leave almost 5 million to last quarter which feels too high bar. I still think they miss their forecast by about a million but it's not like it matters in long run.
UK, France and Germany are 4+ million without knowing Germany's updated numbers (last known number was 650k from March 2018).
Don't forget that US seems to be overperforming and going noticably higher than 33%.
No, it's not enough. Switch will certainly miss its target for hardware, but software will do better than expected, so who cares?
If you only count physical sales, yes. But as we know that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe did 700K in 2018, it means that Black Ops 4 did at least 30% less (in physical) than WWII.
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It's more than 20-25% up compared to last year when using shipped numbers. Last year had shortages all year long. This time they shipped in large quantities.
no, not "certainly".
no, not "certainly".
Even physical only, that's still impressive. WWII did 1M last year. And came out on november 3rd, almost a month later vs BO4 (october 12th). There are no reason for the game to have sold so few compared to WWII. It's really weird. Or is the digital share much higher than last year for some reason ? Or were there some stock issues ? Weird for COD, impressive MK8D nonetheless
Edit: oh wait could the protests really have had any kind of impact ? I thought it was just a joke
Man when those results drop it's going to be crazy, either way it goes.
The US number is more effective in the full picture, its a much bigger market. And they probably shipped more than 20% in Europe compared to last year when supply was constrained.
I think 19m at least is almost certain at this point.
Anyone know how much it sold at launch in France? I was curious to subtract that amount to compare the two FY.
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Just to be clear, I ask because the bullet point talks about how much was sold in 2017 vs 2018, however March 2017 would have been launch month and in a different FY, so the 2017 number is skewed for the percentage comparisons people are making.
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Just to be clear, I ask because the bullet point talks about how much was sold in 2017 vs 2018, however March 2017 would have been launch month and in a different FY, so the 2017 number is skewed for the percentage comparisons people are making.
Shipments will be significant up even if sell through was flat.
You could also add in the OP that Switch was the best-selling console in 2018. (Or maybe not ? to avoid console war stuff ?)
Edit: just reread the article, they actually say that had it not been for the protests, they could have done better. Impressive stuff really (not related to the first part of my post, this is also relevant to Sony and Microsoft)
Shipped≠sell through
Nintendo can overshipped if they really want to reach their target. Sony did it in 2016 with 3.6 million consoles on shelves end December. In 2017 they shipped less than 2016 but sold 2 million more to consumers.
I think France really likes the japanese culture and vice versa? But I'm not sure.
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I actually didn't spot that bit at all. I'll add it to OP. Thanks.
oh yeah. It will be close and yeah at least 19 million should be rather safe bet. Of course I could be completely wrong too and they hit that 20 million (wouldn't be first time). We shall see when Nintendo releases their Q3 data at the end of this month (how much the holiday shipment was and will they change their forecast).
That's what I was thinking too. Anime is very popular in France. Heck, they used to air Sentai in the 80s.
French people are just big ol' weebs.
Nah but seriously, french people are very fond of japanese culture. The manga industry is specially pretty big over there.
Taking these numbers and converting them means UK had 6.4 B$ gaming market, compared to France with 5.3 B$.
Probably gonna get even closer come this year due to certain happenings, as well as xb/ps probably cooling of as they prepare for next gen.
Europes Gaming market is reportedly around 20 Billion dollars, but the only "official" number i know of is 28 B dollars for Europe combined with africa and the middle east.
So if we say 20 B is europe, France would be about 25% of europes gaming market, with the UK at 32% and germany(4.7 B in 2018) at 23%.
yeah. For example France is the second biggest market for Manga after Japan (so bigger than US despite the huge population difference).
Yeah the yellow vest movement definitely impacted the sales so it is even better with context.
Cant wait to hear about other software numbers.
Cant wait to hear about other software numbers.
Really ?
Sorry to be off topic, but wow.
Gilet jaunes are the worst.
Over christmas i had family from France over, they told me some GJ were seriously protesting for a 36 Hour workweek mandate.
That's crazy!
I'm just glad that the Manga & Anime market in Germany grew in the last decade.
They were tight on supply everywhere last year and they are not tight on supply this year.
So last year... France was 21.3% of the other region through December 31st (0.911 of 4.26 million). If similar ratio occurs this year we are looking at 5.3 million in the calender year of 2018 for Other. I think it's going to be a fair bit more than that actually, considering how close shipments were to sell through last year, and how regions like the uk and other weaker regions for Nintendo would likely have a higher percentage gain yoy.
To reach its target, Nintendo needs to ship 33% more units than last fiscal year. We only have numbers for three markets (2nd, 3rd and 4th or 5th market of the Switch), but none of them are close to that. So no, Switch won't reach its target, except if Nintendo launch a new revision just before the end of the fiscal year. The question now is to know if they will ship 17M, 18M or 19M of Switch.
I think the main answer is "Red Dead Redemption 2". In 2013 also (Grand Theft Auto V), all others AAA (FIFA, Battlefield, COD) were significantly down YOY.
True, but I think Nintendo already did that during Q1 and Q2.
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