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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Year 1 - Week 52 - Global Switch Sales vs WiiU/XboxOne/3DS/PS4

JRPGfan on 30 October 2017
guiduc said:
Very nice! It is catching up on PS4 slowly, but certainly.

Its going to take some time.....

If switch is at 7.63m shippped, and PS4 is at like ~67m shipped... by september 30th.

Theres still a 60m or so gap, for the switch to close.



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Nymeria on 30 October 2017

The race against 3DS is one I'm most interested in to see if Switch drops its price and takes of fin Japan like I expect it to.



GuyDuke on 30 October 2017
JRPGfan said:
guiduc said:
Very nice! It is catching up on PS4 slowly, but certainly.

Its going to take some time.....

If switch is at 7.63m shippped, and PS4 is at like ~67m shipped... by september 30th.

Theres still a 60m or so gap, for the switch to close.

Not on total global sales, you fool

For now, let's just see if it catches up in its first year aligned.



GuyDuke on 30 October 2017
RolStoppable said:
guiduc said:

That's what I'm trying to figure out... mmm

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2017/171030_4e.pdf

According to their Earnings Release Supplement, at page 4 the software sales includes bundles and digital, so that's most definitely sold (otherwise, shipped wouldn't include digital, I guess)

Going by that logic it would be... inconsistent to release numbers for only shipped consoles. I believe adjustments were made in that regard when the Three Months Earnings released.

Perhaps we should seek for someone who could confirm that.

For consoles, Nintendo shows shipments. They refer to them as sales because shipping is equal to selling to retailers.

For games, Nintendo shows shipments including digital sales. Once again the same logic applies for physical goods, shipments are refered to as sales because the goods are sold to retailers. Or in other words, the sales figures for games on NIntendo's website consist of sold through copies, copies on shelves of retailers and sold digital copies.

Thanks Rol.



DonFerrari on 30 October 2017
Flilix said:
DonFerrari said:

Nope, there were some people celebrating the Switch doing better than PS4 on the week and expecting Switch to outsell PS4 when both stop selling. I won't say it is a lot of people, but there were some.

But so far Switch have been presenting a very good sale performance.

Although I personally don't believe in it, it's certainly not impossible. Nintendo is aiming at 14 million FY, so it's dong equally well as the PS4.

Sure it's possible, we are just to far away to have any certainty. As I said so far Switch is doing fantastic and the 14M is quite good, we will need to monitor the next couple years to see what is the trend for LT.

guiduc said:
RolStoppable said:

For consoles, Nintendo shows shipments. They refer to them as sales because shipping is equal to selling to retailers.

For games, Nintendo shows shipments including digital sales. Once again the same logic applies for physical goods, shipments are refered to as sales because the goods are sold to retailers. Or in other words, the sales figures for games on NIntendo's website consist of sold through copies, copies on shelves of retailers and sold digital copies.

Thanks Rol.

Even easier way, on official figures (like finnancial announcements) it's shipped because it needs 100% certainty. Same with Sony and MS (if they released their numbers), on PR it will depend of their wording. Sony have been clear when they ment sold to customer, not sure about Nintendo releases.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

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Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

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GuyDuke on 01 November 2017
DonFerrari said:
Flilix said:

Although I personally don't believe in it, it's certainly not impossible. Nintendo is aiming at 14 million FY, so it's dong equally well as the PS4.

Sure it's possible, we are just to far away to have any certainty. As I said so far Switch is doing fantastic and the 14M is quite good, we will need to monitor the next couple years to see what is the trend for LT.

guiduc said:

Thanks Rol.

Even easier way, on official figures (like finnancial announcements) it's shipped because it needs 100% certainty. Same with Sony and MS (if they released their numbers), on PR it will depend of their wording. Sony have been clear when they ment sold to customer, not sure about Nintendo releases.

Fair thinking there, thank you Don.



Green098 on 01 November 2017

Updated OP



GuyDuke on 01 November 2017

Good, steady sales. Ahead of 3DS (post pricecut) is nice to witness.



Bofferbrauer2 on 02 November 2017
guiduc said:
Good, steady sales. Ahead of 3DS (post pricecut) is nice to witness.

And this is probably still subject to some adjustments as the numbers are a bit low for 7.63M Consoles shipped. I could see 3-400k on shelves, and even then barely for many regions, but the way it's heading would indicate twice as many consoles in storage.

Edit: Which week is Mario Odyssey release week?

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GuyDuke on 02 November 2017
Bofferbrauer2 said:
guiduc said:
Good, steady sales. Ahead of 3DS (post pricecut) is nice to witness.

And this is probably still subject to some adjustments as the numbers are a bit low for 7.63M Consoles shipped. I could see 3-400k on shelves, and even then barely for many regions, but the way it's heading would indicate twice as many consoles in storage.

Edit: Which week is Mario Odyssey release week?

Week 35.