There's been no scalpers market in the US for about two months. Nintendo has done a good job lately of keeping them in stores. Hopefully they can keep that up during the holidays. Not just consoles, but also accessories. My local 6 Targets were sold out of Pro controllers and Joy-Cons this week. Same goes for games. No store should ever run out of the big games (Splatoon, Kart, Odyssey, Zelda).
Okay, but this october has the release of a game that has turned out to sell gangbusters, with a bundle to boot. I truly feel that numbers should be higher, 500k-600k at least. Consider, for example, that amazon has sold out of its entire Switch stock. That didn't happen in September, so either the stock was comparable (doubtful imo because of the anticipation of SMO release) or sales were in fact much higher. More geneeally for amazon, the monthly charts put the Switch SKUs much higher than in September, and add a third sku with the SMO bundle.
That would be a really high number for any console in October. Wii didn't put up those kind of numbers in it's entire first year save for December.
I think that's a bit high for Americas. From recent numbers for Canada we know they are 10% or lesa of us for Switch units, and shipments to americas in the first quarter indicated total share of us to be over 80%.
It's going to be almost impossible for Nintendo to supply the demand. Too much hype.
We know Switch weekly average in September was +60K, if we assume Switch sales were increasing every week since late September because of more supply, a gradual increase to something like ~65K week 1, ~70K week 2, ~75K week 3, then ~180K week 4 (~100K Mario bundles) would be a perfectly fine and great result, while still being ~400K. You can cut week 4 down to 150K and it would still be a great month.
I don't know about higher powered just yet, but a reduction in production cost as well as longer battery life would be great. Well, I wouldn't mind to see more power if it just meant that the same games could be played at say 1080p and not effect existing owners. Yeah, that would be okay.
The 3.11 million also includes stock that has been shipped but is not available in stores yet. If they were at over 2.6 million by the end of September, they would have said more than "over 2 million" imo.
Yeah, I forgot that September tracks one more week than October, so the comparison is slightly off. In that case, 400k does sound more reasonable (although I still don't want to rule out 500k).
Only once pokémon launches on it ;)
It's crazy that M+R and Pokken are on there in the top 20. Even when considering we can't take amazon as the de facto state of the whole market, it is a promising sign for those games for sure!
