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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - USA Today Says Switch Has Sold 15 million units!?

DonFerrari on 29 December 2017
PortisheadBiscuit said:
Pinkie_pie said:

If they said switch only sold 10 million units, the nintendo fans will immediately say fake and bring out nintendos announcement of 10 million sold in 9 months. Now they would rather believe usa today instead of nintendo

Everyone pretty much agrees that it is 15 million shipped and not sold, stop fabricating 

Unless you read the whole thread and see not everyone imediattely assumed shipped.



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

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

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

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DonFerrari on 29 December 2017
zorg1000 said:
Teeqoz said:

I doubt it's shipped either. The Switch's supply has been tight all year, if it's 15 million shipped, then it's basically 15 million sold as well (maybe 14.5 million).

Its feasible.

Switch shipments at the end of Sept were 7.62 million and Nintendo stated in their presentation that sell through was around 7 million in the same time frame.

Another comparison is PS4 at the end of 2014. Shipment numbers were 19.9 million at the end of December with sales of 18.5 million.

Shipments of ~15 million with sell through of 13.5 million at the end of December is pretty viable.

 

But yes you could be right and its just a general estimate.

Except they were at basically 0 unsold inventory by the end of November... so the 10M sold through or shipped would mean essentially the same, and with Nintendo reportedely making 2M per month, their December shipment shouldn't be more than 13M.



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

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

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

zorg1000 on 29 December 2017
DonFerrari said:
zorg1000 said:

Its feasible.

Switch shipments at the end of Sept were 7.62 million and Nintendo stated in their presentation that sell through was around 7 million in the same time frame.

Another comparison is PS4 at the end of 2014. Shipment numbers were 19.9 million at the end of December with sales of 18.5 million.

Shipments of ~15 million with sell through of 13.5 million at the end of December is pretty viable.

 

But yes you could be right and its just a general estimate.

Except they were at basically 0 unsold inventory by the end of November... so the 10M sold through or shipped would mean essentially the same, and with Nintendo reportedely making 2M per month, their December shipment shouldn't be more than 13M.

where was it stated Switch had 0 stock at the end of Nov?



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DonFerrari on 29 December 2017
zorg1000 said:
DonFerrari said:

Except they were at basically 0 unsold inventory by the end of November... so the 10M sold through or shipped would mean essentially the same, and with Nintendo reportedely making 2M per month, their December shipment shouldn't be more than 13M.

where was it stated Switch had 0 stock at the end of Nov?

Have I said there were any formal announcement?

They were sold out like a month before, sold well on Nov (close to the Nintendo 2M production claim) and from the reports we had on the NPD and prediction threads the flow of Switch was always that it received constant supply but they weren't sitting around, so there wasn't much surplus to imagine that a September sold out, October nearly sold out, November no units sitting around with a 10M announcement and 2M December production would have 3M consoles shipped and not accounted for.



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

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

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

zorg1000 on 29 December 2017
DonFerrari said:
zorg1000 said:

where was it stated Switch had 0 stock at the end of Nov?

Have I said there were any formal announcement?

They were sold out like a month before, sold well on Nov (close to the Nintendo 2M production claim) and from the reports we had on the NPD and prediction threads the flow of Switch was always that it received constant supply but they weren't sitting around, so there wasn't much surplus to imagine that a September sold out, October nearly sold out, November no units sitting around with a 10M announcement and 2M December production would have 3M consoles shipped and not accounted for.

You are making alot of assumptions here.

According to Nintendo's own statements, there was a ~600k difference in shipped vs sold numbers at the end of September (7.62m shipped vs ~7m sold).

Also, outside of Japan, Switch does not appear to have mass shortages.

One last thing, if shipments are only about 12-13 million at the end of December than they would have shipped ~5 million this quarter with plans to ship ~4 million next quarter.

It doesnt add up, if Switch sales are around 13m than shipments would be close to 15m.



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Brii on 29 December 2017

Wasn't the Switch set to be released in China? What sort of impact would that have had on sales?



CrazyGamer2017 on 29 December 2017
Simpleton said:
I just I want to know if the doomed on arrival console was able to beat the Wii U in 9 months at this point.

Nope, after 9 months it sold 10 million units so it has not beaten the Wii U yet. Should do that sometime in 2018 though.

Also it's not really a console, it's a portable system with a mobile processor that you can hook up to a television.

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Juma009 on 29 December 2017

Nintendo stated they expect to sell 20 million units in 2018 FY, that optimism must be coming from somewhere, I say its True



Normchacho on 29 December 2017

Those have to be shipped numbers. I actually can't imagine what would make someone think otherwise.



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Farsala on 29 December 2017

It is just their own estimates. And they clearly underestimate PS4 as well because that should be there at like 20m.