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Nintendo Switch was the highest selling console of 2018 in USA, France, and Japan
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Absolutely deserved. Love my switch, and will be upgrading to a pro model if that actually is released. My very first console was the N64, and I having never owned a GC, barely used the Wii, skipped the Wii U, it feels like I've come back home with the Switch. Congrats Nintendo.
We already know sell trough for PS4 in 2018 globally was 18 million. Nintendo hasn't given us sell trough numbers in a while but even if we talk about shipped units they need 10 million shipment for holiday quarter just to match PS4 sell trough (as Switch shipments for this year were around 8 million as end of september).
US difference should be more than 300k when it outsold both Xbox and PS4.
Edit: oh, for the whole year you meant I think. Sorry
Nintendo is right below Wii levels. Next year should put it well above that, the way things are looking. This is better than anyone could have imagined.
I mean they destroyed the competition in December even without a price drop.
December US NPD
Switch 1.77m
XB1 920k
PS4 797k
December US NPD
Switch 1.77m
XB1 920k
PS4 797k
Beni suggested 300k for US which would balance out the 300k PS4 had over Switch. 4M doesn't make sense
Benji, praise him, who got a ton of shit from Toxic twitter console warriors and a few.here was right about pretty much everything except the actual Switch sold being lower but this was.offset by PS4 and X1 being lower as well. Switch being over X1 and PS4 combined was the original insight we had in December
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Yeah, sorry, that's a mistake. It's supposed to be closer to 2 million
No because until December Ps4 had 600k lead besides we know the numbers from the leaked info.
NSW: 5640K
PS4: 5330K
Leaked?
It doesn't make sense as to how Switch was 1.77M, while PS4 + Xbox combined is 3M. Unless those are old numbers.
Most PS4 sales for the holiday season were on November due to the Spider Man bundle. I don't think PS4 had any special offer or discount on December, so I'd temper your expectations a bit.
Only part thats crazy to me is the combined part. And its still $300. Switch must be hella desirable with no ether port.
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Might be worth considering that to the larger market the lineup wasn't actually underwhelming.
It's just a fad. Soccer moms and grandmas are buying them to play Mario Kart and then they'll collect dust.
It wasn't until pokemon that a system seller came out in 2018 than it had two back to back ones. So I'd be surprised if the larger market didn't agree but both of those are two huge selling games.
3m? These are the leaked numbers:
Not very surprising, but I believe this could be the first time since 2010 (Wii) that a Nintendo home console sold the most in the industry. Since 2012 (3DS) if we include handhelds. Of course, assuming it did indeed outsell the PS4.
I might be wrong, but I'm lazy and in school right now to look up data.
I might be wrong, but I'm lazy and in school right now to look up data.
800k for a system at MSRP is really good for December.
Especially since it had a $199 bundle the month before.
"Specifically, the group found that console sales jumped 4% compared to last December, with the Nintendo Wii unsurprisingly leading the way with 3.81 million units moved (up from 2.15 million the previous year)."
https://www.engadget.com/2010/01/15/npd-wii-leads-video-game-industry-to-biggest-sales-month-ever/
TIL that a lot of people don't follow the NPD prediction threads (which is the source of this US information). Interesting.
Anyhow, its a great year for Switch and with such a big lead in these major markets it may well have taken the WW crown for the year. I guess we'll find out with the financials at the end of the month.
Anyhow, its a great year for Switch and with such a big lead in these major markets it may well have taken the WW crown for the year. I guess we'll find out with the financials at the end of the month.
It did fine. Slightly soft. But understandable for the reasons given.
Hardly a "monster December" though.
And then buying Mario Odyssey, and then Breath of the Wild, and then Smash, and then *insert indie game that has done ridiculously well*, and then Animal Crossing.
Checkmate Nintendo. It will never last.
But really. Congratulations for the Switch, it earns every ounce of success it gets
In the other thread, someone had a chart showing 2017 vs 2018. Huge negative percentage in April for switch, and in most of September/October. Wasn't until Pokemon in November and Smash in December that everything picked up.