And the above statement and question remain both true and unaswered. No other Nintendo system in NOA history has sold so many units in such a small space of time.

That is true but it also doesn't matter. As i keep saying this is a console launch. 

There are only so many consoles nintendo can make for a launch. And there are a lot of reasons why that is. 

Console launches are more impacted by available stock than by the time of release. I am just shocked that this is a concept that seems to be lost on many here all of a sudden.

Look at it this way, the PS4 was $400 in november 2013. And it remained out of stock/hard to find till around May 2014. It was still $400. If between nov 2013 and may 2014 it had sold through 8M consoles worlwide, all the while with stores not being able to keep them on shelves cause once new stock comes in its being sold. What that means is that if on launch day sony had 7M consoles available worldwide, there were 7M people willing to buy the console on day one at full price. But the reason they couldn't do that was because they couldn't make that many all at once. 

Thats the same thing thats happenning now with the NS. If you could walk into a store right no and see a pile of NS consoles on the floor somewhere, then yes; we could say releasing in the fall could have helped. But the thing is sold out everywhere. people are still pre-ordering for it. That means its launch has been in no way impacted by the time of the year it was released.

I never said you said it was gonna be a success. I never said it won't. And pls drop that nonsense, this has nothing to do with celbrating good news or what not. That kinda petty shit is exactly what turns every simple discussion into a fan war.

All I am saying and have been saying is that what time of the year a console launches at doesn't matter. This overly sensitive nonsense talking as if me simply pointing that out is somehow slanting nintendo is just uncalled for. i have also said that to me its sales performance is only expected. And that what is more important is how it does through the rest of the year.

A lot of stuff do great right off the gates but that doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme of things. If my pointing that out somehow to you seems like I am somehow throwing shade at a successful launch (which is what this is cause they went through the stock they made available) then I am sorry. But thats not what thisis at all.

Weren't you the guy going on about Nintendo fans not being happy for Horizon, so why are you not happy for this, since these are decent numbers. Are you basically going to make statement "Why cannot sony fans be happy for Nintendo statement", like you did the other thread. 

Great numbers in NA, Decent to Great in Japan, Poor in Europe is my take on these switch numbers. For softer launch that Nintendo seems to be going for, I hope it pays of for them to get some what of base, I don't mind if this sells less than 50 Million, just as long as it has solid base. 

So many units? How many is that? Personally i think it's some MS-level spin. There's a very good reason they've not release actual numbers because past the 2nd day that statement doesn't hold true. Just my opinion. Actual facts point to Nintendo hardware not selling all that well at launch, thus setting the bar relatively low.

Why do you say the numbers will be poor in Europe? UK numbers already released point to 80k units sold, if a similar number or even a bit smaller is achieved in Germany and France you have 150k right there, only in 3 countries, not even mentioning the other 40 something countries. Probably Europe will also meet Japans numbers for the first 2 days if not surpass them.

Might end up decent but I was not impressed by UK numbers. Might not be poor but it wasn't too impressive either.