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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Nintendo Switch in Japan: 2018 vs. 2019 - Final Results

Looks like it will be an easy win for 2019.

Why only Switch and not PS4 btw?



2019 will definitely be above 2018. In fact I think it will be up YoY for every single week this year, except maybe the ones corresponding to Pokemon and Smash launch. So at least 50 weeks up YoY is what I predict.



Switch was lacking a lot of system sellers during most of 2018, with price cut and the games we know of rn, pretty sure Switch will be up this year.
Also, PS4 had some huge titles last year to compete but i think it will fade this year. KH3 is far from being MHW



Bofferbrauer2 said:
Looks like it will be an easy win for 2019.

Why only Switch and not PS4 btw?

I don't really know. I just decided to focus on Switch for the time being since that's the more interesting one to watch for. I may do add a PS4 comparison later down the road. But for now, I'm just focusing on the Switch for the time being.

Edit: I'll include a poll option to see if everyone would like to see the PS4 included. Though I think I may know the answer already.

Last edited by PAOerfulone - on 11 January 2019

The_Liquid_Laser said:
2019 will definitely be above 2018. In fact I think it will be up YoY for every single week this year, except maybe the ones corresponding to Pokemon and Smash launch. So at least 50 weeks up YoY is what I predict.

Well, if Gen 8 launches on the same week as Let's Go, then I think this year may be up as well.
Smash week though, yeah, that will likely be down.



Thank you so much for these charts. These really are my favorite things to look at.



MasonADC said:
Thank you so much for these charts. These really are my favorite things to look at.

My pleasure, man!



Week 2 numbers have been added. 2019 is off and running to start the year, extending its lead to nearly 100k.



If they could get a new stable baseline at 55K minimum per week, it would be fine for them.



Does anybody know if Yokai Watch has a release date? It could also help in Japan for switch sales