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Switch sells 600k units in Germany, selling faster than Wii

wrowa

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I'm not sure if this was already known, but it's a small tidbit hidden in the German press release for Labo:

Nintendo sold more than 600,000 Switch units in Germany in less than a year. That's more than any other Nintendo home console sold in the same time frame, including Wii.

Press Release said:
Vor knapp einem Jahr erst hat das Unternehmen mit Nintendo Switch die erste mobile TV-Konsole der Welt herausgebracht. Sie hat sich in Deutschland mit mehr als 600.000 Konsolen bisher besser verkauft als jede andere TV-Konsole von Nintendo im vergleichbaren Zeitraum – und hat damit auch Wii überholt.
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Press Release (translated) said:
Just roughly a year ago, the company launched Nintendo Switch, the world's first mobile TV console. It has sold more than 600,000 consoles in Germany so far, better than any other Nintendo TV console in the same period - and has thus also overtaken Wii.
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Raijinto

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Very impressive. The software is also doing really well there, I think 3 Switch games were in the top 10 best selling games of the year in Germany.
 
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I really don't know how can a company fail miserably every other generation to just then skyrocket to the top on the next one. They're weird.
 
Kouriozan

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Switch's best selling Europe country is France then.
Actually I'm not surprised as French just love Japan.
 
pswii60

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RabbidPeach said:
Look at it this way. My local stores have reduced Switch shelf space to the bottom, right next to unsold stock of Skylanders toys. It's really depressing to look at.

We weally don't like Nintendo stuff here. Sadly.
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Wii and DS were both absolutely massive in the UK, as was Game Boy back in the day, and everything Pokémon including the trading cards. So the whole UK doesn't like Nintendo thing is nonsense.
 
Astandahl

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Great sales once again for the Switch. So right now the best market are USA , Japan , France , Germany.

Really big difference between France and Germany though.
 
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Spork4000 said:
The UK situation looks weirder and weirder every day.
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I don't think it's that weird, Nintendo doesn't have the same nostalgia factor in the UK as it does in other parts of the world and the 2 biggest games on the switch cater to that nostalgia. Also the switch doesn't have the same inherent appeal to non-gamers as the Wii did.

It will probably pick up in sales in year 2 and beyond like the DS did, probably after price drops.
 
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pswii60 said:
Wii and DS were both absolutely massive in the UK, as was Game Boy back in the day, and everything Pokémon including the trading cards. So the whole UK doesn't like Nintendo thing is nonsense.
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You missed out the SNES, N64, Gamecube, 3DS, Wii-U.....

Trust me, as a lifelong Nintendo fan in the UK, it's a very lonely road I have walked :(
 
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wrowa

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The most recent GfK sales numbers for other consoles I can find on the quick are from August 2016. In other words, quite outdated — but I think they are worth posting anyway. Maybe someone else has numbers that are more up to date.

PS4: 3,200,000
Wii U: 745,000
Xbox One: 710,000

(Again: As of August 2016. Very old numbers.)

PS4 apparently was at 540,000 units sold in June 2014.

http://www.4players.de/4players.php...or_Wii_U_und_Xbox_One.html?4pTemplate=desktop
 
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That's pretty good! For comparison

As of September 2007
Wii: 361,000 (10 months)
360: 316,000 (22 months)
PS3: 135,000 (7 months)

Wii ended 2007 with 728K
 
Aostia82

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antonz said:
Switch is doing ok in UK but its not setting the charts on fire. Switch in mainland Europe is in beast mode
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France, Italy and Germany have seen switch being the fastest selling home console for Nintendo ever
In France it is even better being the best selling hardware ever for Nintendo

I think that Spain too will soon share the same trend

UK is the only market with good but not great sales so far among the big 5
 
karmitt

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Spork4000 said:
The UK situation looks weirder and weirder every day.
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Here in Australia the system feels pretty irrelevant. I haven't lived here long, but stores don't seem to keep stock of software whenever I'm looking. Just the other day I went to a couple stores looking for a copy of Yooka Laylee and Doom, and the JBHifi employee just outright told me Yooka Laylee isn't on Switch, and that Doom was out of stock.

I love the system, but I feel like my interests are definitely not in-line with most gamers I've met over here.
 

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I can't believe we have actual numbers for the Switch in Germany. Danke Merkel!

So it's selling faster than Wii here too and this should put Germany at 2nd place in Europe for Nintendo consoles in Europe behind France (911k).
 
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karmitt said:
Here in Australia the system feels pretty irrelevant. I haven't lived here long, but stores don't seem to keep stock of software whenever I'm looking. Just the other day I went to a couple stores looking for a copy of Yooka Laylee and Doom, and the JBHifi employee just outright told me Yooka Laylee isn't on Switch, and that Doom was out of stock.

I love the system, but I feel like my interests are definitely not in-line with most gamers I've met over here.
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Yooka Laylee doesn't have a retail version(yet).
 

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wrowa said:
The most recent GfK sales numbers for other consoles I can find on the quick are from August 2016. In other words, quite outdated — but I think they are worth posting anyway. Maybe someone else has numbers that are more up to date.

PS4: 3,200,000
Wii U: 745,000
Xbox One: 710,000

(Again: As of August 2016. Very old numbers.)

PS4 apparently was at 540,000 units sold in June 2014.

http://www.4players.de/4players.php...or_Wii_U_und_Xbox_One.html?4pTemplate=desktop
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Handheld numbers?
 
Spork4000

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karmitt said:
Here in Australia the system feels pretty irrelevant. I haven't lived here long, but stores don't seem to keep stock of software whenever I'm looking. Just the other day I went to a couple stores looking for a copy of Yooka Laylee and Doom, and the JBHifi employee just outright told me Yooka Laylee isn't on Switch, and that Doom was out of stock.

I love the system, but I feel like my interests are definitely not in-line with most gamers I've met over here.
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I don't think Yooka Laylee got a physical release? I get that reaction, but it does suck about doom.
 
antonz

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We also know Switch is selling faster than Wii in Italy but No numbers were provided for there.
 

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Great news.

As far as we know, the Switch's weakest markets so far are the UK and Australia. I want to hear how they're selling compared to other Nintendo systems in these territories.
 
Zoon

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Is it safe to say that the Switch is close to 2.5m in EU?

Edit: Seems like it's a lot higher than that.
 
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visvim

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having lived in the UK for most of my life there has always been a bit of a 'Nintendo is for kids' mentality amongst my friends and family. I guess the cultural thing is still a thing.
 
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Zoon said:
Is it safe to say that the Switch is close to 2.5m in EU?
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It sold 5ish million in the US and it is at around 3 million in Japan and we got the confirmation it passed 10 million WW a few weeks ago so I'd say it's around possibly 3 million by now in EU. Maybe a bit under to account for other countries in Asia.
 
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Zoon said:
Is it safe to say that the Switch is close to 2.5m in EU?
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Japan is over 3.3 million by the end of 2017, why would you think Europe not only is under that, but even MUCH less than Japan?

The "Rest of the world" section from Nintendo was always bigger than Japan, and we know most of those sales comes from Europe. Plus US is over 4.8 million, no way Europe is only half of that.

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300,000
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That was before the holidays lol, it's easy well over that now.
 
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