yeah. I mean untill at least oddesy and xenoblade 2 drops, people are buying a switch for splatoon2, not the other way around.

It's selling not just because of Splatoon but the great 1st party line-up it's offering and the future releases as well. To say that Switch is only selling because of Splatoon 2 is false. 

As I recall Switch is sold out the moment the Switch was release. It's still selling even before Splatoon was release. 

Nintendo was caught off guard bigtime and they cannot meet the demand for months now. It's a new gadget. New gadget generate hype. Especially when you cannot even purchase it immidiately. It creates the stigma that I want it as well.  The more you cannot get it the more you will want it.

It's a hybrid of Home console and Portable so it has mobility. Which as far as I know a big thing in Japan. The ability to play in a big screen then you can go outside and continue your game then you got home again plug it in on your Dock is for me the best selling point of Switch. Which I hope Sony follow as well. Ability to continue playing Uncharted, Bloodbourne and some of the exclusive JRPG like persona when I go out will be gamers dream for me.

Add to that the great software ( Splatoon) it offers. Zelda is a System seller, Mario Kart is a system seller, Arms sold well as well, Then You have Splatoon which is a great system seller. With Mario Odyssey with just a month away. For a hardcore Nintendo fan that is a fantastic line-up in less than a year it was release. 

I don't get it. What is Everybody's Golf and why is everyone excited for it?

Regardless, nice to see Splatoon 2 do 50k. I seem to remember it doing consistently 50k-75k, so if it can keep doing that every week it should grow to be one of the biggest titles on Switch. If it did 50k theoretically from now till the end of the year, that would be another 875k right there, making it 1,931,500 in Japan alone. That probably won't happen, but if the holiday sales spike enough it could still do a lot. 

Placing the Switch against all the big boys... Meany!

I mean, intergenerational population decline is probably enough to make it impossible for the Switch to ever reaching the ludicrous numbers the DS produced later on...

After Splatoon 1, from moment Nintendo annauced Splatoon 2 for Switch it was obvous that Switch will easily one of strongest game in Japan at all, not just Switch game. Splatoon 2 can easily hit 2m at end of year in Japan alone, but that really depends from Switch stocks.

Ugh. My original comment was extremely positive. Does thou Nintendo fandom demand more positivity : P ???

I think it depends. The sales have been very good, if it continues to sell around 50k till December where it will get a decent boost, then it will come close to 2 million. 2 million by the end of the year though? Ehhhhhhhhhhh, it's hard to tell since the switch shipments to Japan have been very inconsistent. I think 2 mil by the end of the year is somewhat likely, I just think 2 mil by the beginning of next year is a lock.

"That probably won't happen" is not positive in any case, not alone "extremely positive". ;)

We already see trend that Splatoon 2 sales are identical to Switch week sales, basically that means that almost every new Switch owner buys a Splatoon 2 with console. We can assume that in September in October awereage weekle sales will be around 50k, while from November and Mario Odyssey launch (end of October) Switch will have bigger shipments, and if you include digitial sales (that are around 10% of phisical sales), 2m is very posible at end of year.

Famitsu is up

https://www.famitsu.com/biz/ranking/

The gap between the PS versions of Nights of Azure 2 and the Switch version is even wider (switch < 13% of total).

Sellthrough is decent for PS4, bad for Vita and Switch.

What happened today is tremendously important : think, what is the point of releasing NoA2 on Switch, apart from the fact that KT must give something in exchange of publishing FE Warriors in Japan (the real reason)? KT is checking if what I call the pure Nintendo audience (people who solely own Nintendo systems) might be interested in their games. And today, the pure Nintendo audience clearly demonstrated its disdain.

But the second phenomenon is that by starting a Switch version (which no one wanted) halfway, they sacrified the PS4 version with a long delay and subpar graphics, this being outrageous to the existing NoA fanbase on PS4/PSV which automatically buy less. Therefore, KT loses on both sides and goes straight into the wall if they pursue that strategy. They must stop the alliance with Nintendo, otherwise they may damage their Gust brand beyond repair.

As a sidenote, very good 2nd week for Shin Yomawari. Probably not trailing too far from the 1st one now. As Yomawari 1 sold several times its costs, the sequel must be good profit for NIS.

User bases

Vita : 5.696.448 (45%), Switch : 1.578.036 (12.5%), PS4 : 5.276.853 (42%)

NoA2 FW sales

Vita : 7168 (24%), Switch (15%) : 4463, PS4 : 18207 (61%)

I don't think you chose the best example to illustrate your point here. Switch number are pretty much as expected based on total NoA2 sales and user bases.