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

gabzjmm23 on 09 January 2018

That Odyssey bundle did its job. Great to see consoles getting its deserve sales. Hoping for more quality games across all platforms.



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Mbolibombo on 09 January 2018
Green098 said:
Mbolibombo said:

Much appreciated this thread. Thanks for doing it. Looks like Nintendo might actually do it across the first year. Are you considering doing one for year two as well? PS4 should probably pass the Switch again the following weeks after year 1 so it would be fun to follow when that happens :P

Thanks, and yes, I'm planing on doing the same for year two and so on.

Saucy!



xMetroid on 09 January 2018

Really nice thread.
On another note, i'm really curious if the Switch can end up with the fastest selling console WW in a year. I'm sure Nintendo wants that headline and its possible.

I see the Switch end up around 12.6 millions and being able to sell around 250k a week till march to end at 14.6 millions. This would be a nice big headline to finally destroy the transition between Wii U to Switch in many people's mind.



Amnesia on 09 January 2018

Prediction for the whole first 12 months of the Switch : 15,2 M

9 first months : 10.2 M
Dec : 2.8 M
Jan : 1.2 M
Fev : 1 M



Flilix on 09 January 2018
Amnesia said:

Really ? Are you sure it is not the PS2 with something like 15,6 or 15,8 ?

 

edit : sorry...Lol with 6500 posts...You are probably right. How damn can you have twice the maximum number of post I have on my forum.

PS2 was a very slow seller. Its first two years were pretty low (1.41M in 2000, 9.20M in 2001).



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Flilix on 09 January 2018
RolStoppable said:
Flilix said:

PS2 was a very slow seller. Its first two years were pretty low (1.41M in 2000, 9.20M in 2001).

That's incorrect. The PS2 was selling big numbers right from the start.

The numbers you posted are shipments for the fiscal year ending March 2000 and the fiscal year ending March 2001. Since the PS2 launched in March 2000, the 1.41m figure constitutes shipments for only one month of availability and therefore the figure for 2001 brings the total to 13 months. Scaled to 12 months and sell-through instead of shipments, the PS2 did ~9m.

One caveat here is that the PS2 was Japan-only in its first six months, so a regional alignment of launches would push the PS2 in the range of 15-15.5m. The other caveat is that such an adjustment to the comparison gives the PS2 a notable advantage because it is granted a much bigger timeframe to sort out its supply shortages. That's why overall it's the fairer comparison to take the first day of availability and count 12 months from that point, but it's clear that no kind of comparison will be absolutely equal due to the launch timings that differ for all consoles.

Regional alignment would increase the numbers of all other consoles too, not just the PS2. The only exception is Switch which launched day and date worldwide. An additonal problem with PS2 comparisons is that VGC was only founded in 2006 and weekly sales tracking only applies to consoles from the Nintendo DS forward, so there are huge holes in the historical database that will never be filled. The GBA is another fast-selling system that pushed ~15m in its first 12 months with regional alignment of launches; it may actually have done even better than the PS2.

I see, sorry. All of that information was actually on the site I got the numbers from, but I got confused with the dates.



Bofferbrauer2 on 09 January 2018
Green098 said:
Mbolibombo said:

Much appreciated this thread. Thanks for doing it. Looks like Nintendo might actually do it across the first year. Are you considering doing one for year two as well? PS4 should probably pass the Switch again the following weeks after year 1 so it would be fun to follow when that happens :P

Thanks, and yes, I'm planing on doing the same for year two and so on.

Yayyyyyy



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SuperNova on 11 January 2018
Green098 said:

Updated OP

Switch sales pass PS4

Thanks for all the hard work you put into this thread, multiple adjustment and all! :)



trent44 on 12 January 2018
p0isonparadise said:
Amnesia said:
Is it now safe to say that the NS will completly destroy the global first 12 months of the PS4 ? The next 2 weeks coming to the table will see some 700000-900000-ish for the NS...

What is the current fastest 12 first months console and how many sold unit was it ?

Wii with 14.5 million. 

Beating Wii's first year world wide record... I think it might just happen.

The morale at Nintendo must be over the moon by now. (especially after so many of their employees survived the darker days of the Wii U)

Kimishima brings Nintendo good fortune,

through Nintendo say we should "leave luck to heaven",

we know they have a man on the inside pulling favors.

:P



xMetroid on 12 January 2018
trent44 said:
p0isonparadise said:

Wii with 14.5 million. 

Beating Wii's first year world wide record... I think it might just happen.

The morale at Nintendo must be over the moon by now. (especially after so many of their employees survived the darker days of the Wii U)

Kimishima brings Nintendo good fortune,

through Nintendo say we should "leave luck to heaven",

we know they have a man on the inside pulling favors.

:P

I'm pretty sure Nintendo are going to push the shipments to make it happen.

That headline all over the news and internet would be incredible for the Switch. "Fastest selling console of all time over (during it's first 12 months)"