Switch is a wallet magnet I keep buying stuff I know I wouldn't buy as much on other platforms.
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Q1: Nintendo shipped 1.88m NSW hardware (-5% YoY), 17.96m NSW software (+120% YoY)
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Switch is a wallet magnet I keep buying stuff I know I wouldn't buy as much on other platforms.
That's a really weird statement to make. Sounds like a spin tbh. It has been like one month and a half since E3.
you think October to December will be down too but Jan to March will be up?
Which is only half of Q1, not that hard to imagine that sales have picked up afterwards. Not enough to close the gap, but picking up nonetheless.
What big releases are happening in Q2 btw?
and how much did Switch did do last Q2?
I guess it might be up just from all the games cumulatively adding up, but there's no major game right?
maybe fortnite.
I think 20 mill is probably not happening though. 1.88 m isn't terrible by any means, but to have a 20 mill year you generally need to be in top form or close every quarter.
Either that or Nintendo is gonna have to price cut for the holidays, which I doubt they would do.
Either that or Nintendo is gonna have to price cut for the holidays, which I doubt they would do.
I had such a strict "I will only buy a game when I have completed my active one" rule for my first month. And then I just completely lost it.
They did 3 million in Q2 2017 with big sofware movers (even Japan hand some big weeks).
I expect Q2 to be down too unless NPD July shows some big increase in sales.
A tad low on the HW side, was expecting over 2M. But the software sales are insane.
Still expecting a huge holiday for the Switch so I wouldnt rule out 20M just yet. Surely they expect 10M+ units sold October-December with the success continuing the first months of next year.
Still expecting a huge holiday for the Switch so I wouldnt rule out 20M just yet. Surely they expect 10M+ units sold October-December with the success continuing the first months of next year.
from my Biased perspective, this Q2 release: Octopath Traveler, Captain Toad, Monster Hunter GU, Xenoblade 2: Golden Country, FIFA 19, Dragoball FighterZ, Valkyria Chronicles 4, The World Ends With You
Last Q2 Switch Shipped units were 2.9M
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If Nintendo meets their 20m HW target I expect a lot of "no one could have expected Pokémon and Smash to drive sales so much", even after months of people repeating that Pokémon is the biggest IP in gaming.
Oh I was just clarifying what not to put in.
Besides, Mario Tennis Aces was not listed in that summary.
HW drop understandable, Kirby, DK, Labo aren't Mario Odyssey, MK, Splatoon or Zelda. The software numbers are great though, maybe 100 millions is doable.
A drop in HW sales is disappointing, but reflective of the drought I guess. Hoping they can turn the tide with Fortnite, Pokemon and Smash, though 20M seems pretty far off. Labo is doing surprisingly decent on the other hand. That is, I predicted 20M across all SKUs by next year, which was way too optimistic, but 10M should still be doable.
No, that doesn't make sense. In the supplementary information they say Nintendo first party titles account for 83% of all titles sold, if that's the case then of the 17.96m almost 15m would have to come from first party sales. Someone else did the count earlier and it looked closer to 8m for first party switch software sales. The wording is also very vague, "Software sales units include both packaged and downloadable versions of software" downloadable versions could mean anything, not specifically only the downloadable version of packaged software. For the software sales figure to make sense Nintendo have got to be including all types of software sales, the numbers don't add up otherwise.
Yes, because last year Super Mario Odyssey released in October and this year Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will only launch in December.
I think hardware sales will be down in October and November, up in December (but not enough to do better in Q3 than in 2017) and up in Q4 (at least in January).
I think Smash launch too late for changing everything in Q3, but it will probably help Q4 hardware sales.
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He's correct. Nintendo doesn't count download only titles
Really surprised at the Kirby numbers. In so few months it is one of the best selling Kirby games yet. All these franchises are going to hit record highs on Switch. Excited to see what Metroid Prime 4 and Bayonetta sell.
So they're banking on shipping 18.12 million Switch units in the next 3 quarters? I really don't see it.
The Wii for example sold 3.43 in Q1 of its second year and then 15.18 mill for the next three quarters to end the fiscal year with 18.61m I believe.
I don't understand why Nintendo makes such outlandish sales predictions.
The Wii for example sold 3.43 in Q1 of its second year and then 15.18 mill for the next three quarters to end the fiscal year with 18.61m I believe.
I don't understand why Nintendo makes such outlandish sales predictions.
What games it was used to reach these 8 million count? Nintendo publish a lot of titles and you need to count old titles sales too.
83% includes 3DS, WiiU, etc.
Super Mario Party and Pokemon are still Q3. Also there were major shortages in Q3 2017. I'd be surprised if they were not up in Q3 2018.
serious or rhetoric question? cause this is a 1st so no data about how it would impact sales.
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Pokémon never released on a $300 console, what's the point of such question.
I dunno. If it was Mario Maker Switch ... now you might be talking.
a good point with this pokemon game (for parents) is that it has coop, so both of your kids can play together with only one game and console :P
this is something else to think about
(also... fully compatible with GO!)
You sound so sure that Pokemon the biggest IP in gaming will do the job =)
so parents won't even need to buy 2 switches, just one switch would be enough
That was Wii's second fiscal year, not its second year. Second year it sold well past 20M.
20M was never outlandish. It actually felt very realistic until there turned out to be "nothing" for the first three months.
I mean, outside this site, this game has positive buzz so...yeah, I'd say it'd sell a bunch of $300 consoles.
Odyssey came out the last week of oct and this year has God damn Pokemon right before black Friday. December is also Nintendo's biggest month ( IIRC dec 2017 was 3 mil) and smash is coming first week.
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I was just point out that he didn't consider Pokémon at all.
Do you think a Pokémon release isn't gonna influence hardware in any way and so it's not worthy of a mention when talking about Q3?
why not, they moved 10M unit last Q3+Q4 all driven by basically only 1 game since October (Mario: O)
this year they have for the same time frame, Mario Party, Pokemon LG, Smash, Fire Emblem, Yoshi Yarn (maybe),
Amazing quarter for software, hardware being slightly down is kinda surprising, but shouldn't matter too much as long as the other 3 quarters pick up the slack.
It's pretty outlandish IMO that they continue to stick by it.
Assuming the next quarter for the Switch is in the 3 mill neighborhood, that means Q3 + Q4 are gonna have to be pretty darn close to *peak* Wii type sales to get to 20 million.
That's asking *a lot* of two games in Pokemon Lets Go and Smash.