PS4/XBO/NS - 2018 vs. 2019 - Week 52 Numbers Added; Final 2019 Totals

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The_Liquid_Laser said:

PAOerfulone said:

According to @ZhugeEX, Nintendo really up'ed their game with the stocks for Switch Lite for both the holiday season and the possible new tariffs pending from China. So stock shouldn't be an issue at all this holiday season, but if it is... Holy shit.

I think they will most likely have stock issues.  All of these people projecting 20m for Switch this year are waaaay too conservative.  The Switch Lite means that this is the first holiday season that parents can afford to get their kids a Switch.  Now add in the Pokemon factor, and this holiday is going to be nuts. 

There are people out there who only play mainline Pokemon games and nothing else.  I have met more than one person like this.  Mainline Pokemon gets released and these people come out of the shadows to buy the game (and system too if need be), then they disappear for about 3 years until the next Pokemon shows up.  Pokemon + Switch Lite alone is huge on top of the growing sales momentum already there for the Switch.  Expect Switch to have supply issues.

Exactly. We only have 2 weeks of data with the Lite, you can't just compare the total for the years cuz the launch of the lite is getting spread over the whole year but actually look at how insane the momentum changed now that the lite is out and how CRAZY it will be for families to be able to buy a switch for 200$ and maybe multiple ones per household. Feel like 18 million is the minimum it will do this year, 20 millions is easily achievable imo.