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Goodnightmoon said:
SvennoJ said:
I was skeptical about using it as a handheld before buying it, but now I love it. I just got back from the car dealership to get my car checked out. I had to 'wait' an hour, that was way too short, still plenty battery left! The guy at the service counter was trying to get one too 'for his kids'. Demand will only get stronger when more are seen outside.

Yes, I think the same.

I sure hope so; I want a Switch Mini and a New Switch.



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Mummelmann said:
Have Gamestop employed a person full time dedicated to hyping up their business with vague statements almost every day? I find it sort of strange that they're the only major retailer going bananas like this, I'm sure it has nothing to do with their impending doom.

Pretty much

We already had a thread like this a few days ago from GameStop, comparing it to "Wii levels" of sales



Mummelmann said:
Have Gamestop employed a person full time dedicated to hyping up their business with vague statements almost every day? I find it sort of strange that they're the only major retailer going bananas like this, I'm sure it has nothing to do with their impending doom.

They sure have. I think they created a new position for him. CEO/COO or something.



xl-klaudkil said:
animegaming said:
What date does the NPD come out? We should probably know how well it is actually selling and what are the exact records it broke.

Wow it beat the ps4? Amazing.  Definitely  did not  expect  that!

2.1mill units ww first week is a lot,let alone touple it.

Well 1 Million PS4's sold in US in first week, compaired to Switch launch in US that sold 500,000 first week.

PS4 had a pretty staggered launch compaired to switch, but still very good numbers.



PenguinZ said:

The Switch can only get better at this point as it adds more games to it's library throughout the year. It's hard to see the demand going down anytime soon based off of what the Switch offers. It's still getting a lot of positive chatter around my work place, which is something the Wii U never had. Their marketing is also more on point.

yep the concept, marketing and software output (less titles at launch but a more steady flow) for Switch are far better than Wii U.



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I love Nintendo and everything they do, but I'm not convinced. Just like I wasn't with the PS4. Consoles always sell out like crazy early on. Bragging about day one or even first month sales has little meaning. The Wii sold out every week for years. That's real momentum.

In short, it's too early to tell.



zorg1000 said:
bonzobanana said:

It looks like it shot past 3 million easily and then it started braking but I accept it was already in trouble before 4 million looking at this.

that is shipments, not sell through.

Notice how terrible those Q1/Q2 2013 shipments are? Thats because they had so much excess stock at the end of 2012.

According to NPD+Media Create, there was over 500k units sitting on store shelves in America+Japan.

The region Nintendo labels Others was even worse, they had shipped 900k at the end of Dec 2012 and by Sept 2013 shipments had only grown to 1.01 million. Thats just over 100k in 9 months and they actually had negative shipments (retailers sending units back) over the summer. There had to have been a few 100k units on store shelves at the end of 2012.

So based on all that, we can conclude that sell through for Wii U at the end of 2012 was much closer to 2 million which lines up well with Vgchartz numbers of 2.17 million as of Dec 29, 2012.

I was actually referring to shipments but remember the huge issue of stock sitting on shelves at the time. Again that is still possible if Switch sales drop off sharply even if the  timescale is different or the cliff edge happens at a different point.  It still feels like a product that has less reasons to buy it than much of the competition for now at least. Whatever it will be interesting to watch it unfold if nothing else.



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Gamestop wants a system that will let them keep selling a lot of physical stuff (accessories, games, screen protectors, amiibo) to do well so take it with a grain of salt.

There are a ton of compelling reasons to believe the Switch is doing well though.

1.) Selling well above MSRP on eBay
2.) It's hard to find
3.) Even accessories and games appear to be sold out in a lot of places

I'm becoming more and more convinced that the Switch will do well. For starters, the system does what it is billed to do. It plays the same games at home and on the go and that works pretty flawlessly. The more and more I look at the 2017 lineup, the stronger it looks.

They launched with what will probably get GotY by a ton of outlets and they're capping the year with an EAD Tokyo Mario game. Splatoon 2 and Mario Kart 8 will almost assuredly be really good. They're launching three new IPs. Their indie presentation was really strong. So on and so on.



Gamestop has been really vocal lately, possibly due to their sales situation..

but still good news for Nintendo :p



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