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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Nintendo FY2018 results, Switch 34.74M, Software 187.52M

DonFerrari on 25 April 2019
haxxiy said:
DonFerrari said:
Good numbers, specially on SW.
But seems like the "pessimistic" won, they didn't hit the target for FY18 and their forecast for this year is 18M, so very far from 20-25M some were expecting here. At least 18M I believe is easily achievable by them, but doesn't seem like they'll pass PS4 at the end of cycle.

It was always a pipe dream, considering we do know how much the Wii and the 3DS sold in this very site and could make a reasonable estimate. But VGC has been like this for Nintendo hardware for over ten years already, if you want to know.

Software, on the other hand, seems pretty good. Except for the Yoshi game, which deserved more.

Edit - oh, that's just Yoshi's initial shipment. Didn't realize it had just released haha. So that's good.

20M I think is achievable this year, 25M was the too much optimism for me.

SW really is where it is shining a lot.

It still early to estimate what will be the end total, but 80-100M seems a safety bracket.

Dulfite said:
Rather than focusing on the fact that they missed their lofty goal, can we not simply appreciate how far the switch has come compared to Wii U? Only the Wii after the GameCube was probably a greater comeback in gaming history.

Some would say PS3 was the greatest comeback because it was made within the own generation without having to kill prematurely and cause all the discussions of Switch being gen 9.



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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Mandalore76 on 25 April 2019
DonFerrari said:
haxxiy said:

It was always a pipe dream, considering we do know how much the Wii and the 3DS sold in this very site and could make a reasonable estimate. But VGC has been like this for Nintendo hardware for over ten years already, if you want to know.

Software, on the other hand, seems pretty good. Except for the Yoshi game, which deserved more.

Edit - oh, that's just Yoshi's initial shipment. Didn't realize it had just released haha. So that's good.

20M I think is achievable this year, 25M was the too much optimism for me.

SW really is where it is shining a lot.

It still early to estimate what will be the end total, but 80-100M seems a safety bracket.

Dulfite said:
Rather than focusing on the fact that they missed their lofty goal, can we not simply appreciate how far the switch has come compared to Wii U? Only the Wii after the GameCube was probably a greater comeback in gaming history.

Some would say PS3 was the greatest comeback because it was made within the own generation without having to kill prematurely and cause all the discussions of Switch being gen 9.

Moving from 3rd place to 2nd place is the greatest comeback in gaming history?



jenpol on 25 April 2019

I'm less certain of a Switch Mini from their forecast. We could see a revision of those prediction if a mini hit the market. Maybe they won't reduce price this year.



RaptorChrist on 25 April 2019

Did not expect Labo to be a million seller.

And they did just over a trillion yen in net sales (unless I'm reading the report wrong).

1 trillion yen = ~ 9 billion USD



Jranation on 25 April 2019
RaptorChrist said:
Did not expect Labo to be a million seller.

And they did just over a trillion yen in net sales (unless I'm reading the report wrong).

1 trillion yen = ~ 9 billion USD

Only Nintendo that can sell 1million cardboard. 



Pocky Lover Boy! 

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DonFerrari on 25 April 2019
Mandalore76 said:
DonFerrari said:

20M I think is achievable this year, 25M was the too much optimism for me.

SW really is where it is shining a lot.

It still early to estimate what will be the end total, but 80-100M seems a safety bracket.

Some would say PS3 was the greatest comeback because it was made within the own generation without having to kill prematurely and cause all the discussions of Switch being gen 9.

Moving from 3rd place to 2nd place is the greatest comeback in gaming history?

Switch haven't passed sales of PS4, so how would it them be the greatest comeback? Also PS4 have dominated WiiU and X1.



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."

jason1637 on 25 April 2019

Those are some crazy software sales.



MasonADC on 25 April 2019

Pretty good hardware and software sales. That 18 million prediction is not sticking. Their meeting should be tonight, I wonder if anything else will be announced then



Cerebralbore101 on 25 April 2019

Xbox One is like...



Jranation on 25 April 2019
jenpol said:
I'm less certain of a Switch Mini from their forecast. We could see a revision of those prediction if a mini hit the market. Maybe they won't reduce price this year.

There is a gamexplain video that says that Nintendo wont show a new hardware at e3. So there is a chance they can show it before or after e3. 



Pocky Lover Boy!