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Forums - Sales Discussion - NPD: Smash Ultimate sold 3M+ in 11 days in US,Pokemon Let's go 2M+

tbone51 on 18 December 2018
Wyrdness said:
My prediction for first month sales was 9m but it looks like it possibly will do that in its first 2 weeks.

Sell thru or ship+digital?



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siebensus4 on 18 December 2018
Supermario28 said:

This means smash is at 6 or 7mil right now WW even if we have no clue how it did in Europe, except for the UK.

Pokemon let's go is a bit disappointing even if the WW numbers must be very good for a spin off.

 

Swtich could reach 10 mil in the US by the end of the year

No numbers, but SSBU is the fastest-selling Nintendo home console game of all time in Europe: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=238706



p0isonparadise on 18 December 2018
colafitte said:
p0isonparadise said:

This is a press release by Nintendo. This isn't rocket science, cola.

So NPD has nothing to do then....ok. Then the OP is as wrong as me, because it called this thread "NPD:...."

Nintendo used NPD data for its PR. 



Nuvendil on 18 December 2018
SpokenTruth said:
colafitte said:

You still have to convince me that Switch is a current gen system though....

I don't have to convince you of anything given that the industry itself accepts it as such.

I think people often forget that generations are entirely arbitrary categorizations used in the industry to divide the history of console sales and competition into periods dominated by sets of hardware that were considered contemparies of one another and were each other's principle competition.  The Switch makes the most sense as a Gen 8 platform.  Yes, that means Nintendo had 2.  Doesn't really matter.  Barring miraculous legs or a surprise early launch for gen 9, the Switch will garner the majority of its sales in competition with the PS4 and Xbone.  And it will do so over a period of 3 years or more.  Rolling it into gen 9 would make no sense.  



Stuart23 on 18 December 2018
colafitte said:
p0isonparadise said:

This is a press release by Nintendo. This isn't rocket science, cola.

So NPD has nothing to do then....ok. Then the OP is as wrong as me, because it called this thread "NPD:...."

Those numbers in the title are NPD numbers...and in the post they are using those NPD data to give an statement. Is really not that hard to understand.



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colafitte on 18 December 2018
p0isonparadise said:
colafitte said:

So NPD has nothing to do then....ok. Then the OP is as wrong as me, because it called this thread "NPD:...."

Nintendo used NPD data for its PR. 

Yes, i agree of course. But then should not be "Nintendo:...."??.

Just looking at some of the very first google sites that appear searching for "switch sales" in last 24h brings me to articles like this one:

https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/damien-cox/the-nintendo-switch-is-selling-quicker-than-the-xbox-one-and-playstation-4/?PageSpeed=noscript

"American researchers at the NPD Group have stated that the Nintendo Switch has sold “more than 8.7 million units” in the United States in its first 20 months."

It doesn't  even name Nintendo PR until the 3rd paragraph, and articles like this will be all over the world. That's my problem.

Edit: There are others that make it right too, to be honest.



Kerotan on 18 December 2018

Great sales. Congrats.



kirby007 on 18 December 2018
SpokenTruth said:
Nuvendil said:

I think people often forget that generations are entirely arbitrary categorizations used in the industry to divide the history of console sales and competition into periods dominated by sets of hardware that were considered contemparies of one another and were each other's principle competition.  The Switch makes the most sense as a Gen 8 platform.  Yes, that means Nintendo had 2.  Doesn't really matter.  Barring miraculous legs or a surprise early launch for gen 9, the Switch will garner the majority of its sales in competition with the PS4 and Xbone.  And it will do so over a period of 3 years or more.  Rolling it into gen 9 would make no sense.  

Absolutely correct.  And having 2 consoles in the same generation is not unprecedented.  Magnavox had 2 consoles in the first generation, Atari had 2 in the second generation, Sega and Atari both had 2 in the 3rd generation and SNK had 2 in the fourth generation.  It's less common now but it's certainly not something unique to Nintendo this generation.

Too many people think power determines their inclusion into a generation but nobody in the industry itself has ever used that criterion.

I dont see a normal xbox one and a one x as the same console either



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Miyamotoo on 18 December 2018

Great to see this game doing great in Europe and Japan also.



Nuvendil on 18 December 2018
kirby007 said:
SpokenTruth said:

Absolutely correct.  And having 2 consoles in the same generation is not unprecedented.  Magnavox had 2 consoles in the first generation, Atari had 2 in the second generation, Sega and Atari both had 2 in the 3rd generation and SNK had 2 in the fourth generation.  It's less common now but it's certainly not something unique to Nintendo this generation.

Too many people think power determines their inclusion into a generation but nobody in the industry itself has ever used that criterion.

I dont see a normal xbox one and a one x as the same console either

Well yeah, hardware revisions are another example of major new hardware releases - even ones that constitute a substantial upgrade - don'ttruigger a new gen.  The first gen of dedicated handhelds for example is more or less measured as the GB to the launch of the GBA.  The GBC was not considered a new gen.  Nor were the many competitors that launched during that span at different points.