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Farsala on 31 July 2019
StarDoor said:

Here's something that hasn't been mentioned yet: This FQ report is the first time that Nintendo has ever separated sales in Europe from the "Other" category. Switch only, though. Quarterly hardware shipments below:

Dec 2017 Mar 2018 Jun 2018 Sep 2018 Dec 2018 Mar 2019 Jun 2019
Japan 1.78 0.66 0.50 0.64 2.22 0.49 0.53
The Americas 2.82 1.20 0.67 1.32 3.80 1.08 0.82
Europe 2.03 0.59 0.31 0.88 2.77 0.58 0.50
Other 0.62 0.47 0.40 0.35 0.62 0.32 0.28
Total 7.24 2.92 1.88 3.19 9.42 2.47 2.13

Numbers come from here: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/hard_soft/number.html

I can't find data for the June and September quarters of 2017. They do have the data for the entire 2017 fiscal year (ending March 2018), though:

Japan: 3.78M
Americas: 5.94M
Europe: 3.79M
Other: 1.54M

And for the fiscal year of 2016 (which is just the March quarter because that's when Switch launched):

Japan: 0.60M
Americas: 1.20M
Europe: 0.76M
Other: 0.18M

Do they specify the country split between Europe and Other?

If I read this right then LTD numbers are

Japan 8.76m

Americas: 14.84m

Europe: 9.6m

Other: 3.69m

Europe is only a tiny bit ahead of Japan, and Japan might surpass Europe after the Switch lite is released.



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Lafiel on 31 July 2019

looks like the Switch is up 4.4m on the 3DS launch aligned, that's about 13.5%
to reach 100m in shipments it must outdo the 3DS by about 30% (assuming 3DS shipments stop at ~77m)

@ Europe vs Japan discussion

what's very notable is that they shipped 62.46m Switch software units in Europe (6.5 SW/HW ratio), while only shipping 39.05m software units in Japan (4.46 SW/HW ratio) - in terms of ratio Europe is on par/slightly ahead of the americas (6.37 SW/HW ratio)

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kopstudent89 on 31 July 2019

BOTW is almost building steam at this point!

I think overall, ok numbers. Nothing that shows any particular growth at the moment. The second half lineup though and the introduction of the Switch Light will at least keep the Switch consistent with the 18m projection. They will have to match their last Q3 which had Smash. Not sure Pokemon will have that impact past launch.



Valdney on 31 July 2019

I predicted that BotW would outsell that 3D Mario game. People said I was crazy. I was right



zorg1000 on 31 July 2019
Valdney said:
I predicted that BotW would outsell that 3D Mario game. People said I was crazy. I was right

Mario is 1.33 million ahead of BotW



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Barkley on 31 July 2019
zorg1000 said:
Valdney said:
I predicted that BotW would outsell that 3D Mario game. People said I was crazy. I was right

Mario is 1.33 million ahead of BotW

BOTW outshipped Mario again last quarter though, so it should overtake eventually though.

He also might be including WiiU numbers.



zorg1000 on 31 July 2019
Barkley said:
zorg1000 said:

Mario is 1.33 million ahead of BotW

BOTW outshipped Mario again last quarter though, so it should overtake eventually though.

He also might be including WiiU numbers.

Yep but "should eventually overtake" and "I was right" are two completely different statements.

I forgot about the Wii U version, you may be right about that.



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Farsala on 31 July 2019
RolStoppable said:
Lafiel said:

looks like the Switch is up 4.4m on the 3DS launch aligned, that's about 13.5%
to reach 100m in shipments it must outdo the 3DS by about 30% (assuming 3DS shipments stop at ~77m)

@ Europe vs Japan discussion

what's very notable is that they shipped 62.46m Switch software units in Europe (6.5 SW/HW ratio), while only shipping 39.05m software units in Japan (4.46 SW/HW ratio) - in terms of ratio Europe is on par/slightly ahead of the americas (6.37 SW/HW ratio)

Six months ago Switch was only 8% ahead of the 3DS. 18 months ago Switch was behind.

The 3DS's early price cut and revision bought the 3DS some time, but it still fell behind before Switch makes its first move of that kind.

If Switch hits 50m by the end of calendar year 2019 (15.26m shipped between April to December 2019, in line with the forecast of 18m for the full fiscal year), it will be 17% ahead of the 3DS.

Should Switch hit 65m by the end of calendar year 2020 (so shipments of 15m for the full calendar year, certainly not an optimistic expectation), it will be 29% ahead of the 3DS. It won't be a challenge to outdo the 3DS by 30% in lifetime sales.

So 98m+, where will those sales be regionally? I am really curious.



Wyrdness on 31 July 2019

Everyone's chosen villain 1-2 Switch crossed 3m I have a feeling this game is going to continue sailing along and hit something like 6m-7m by the end of the NS' life.



Barkley on 31 July 2019
Wyrdness said:
Everyone's chosen villain 1-2 Switch crossed 3m I have a feeling this game is going to continue sailing along and hit something like 6m-7m by the end of the NS' life.

Eh, it did only ship 0.04m this quarter though lol.

It's sold far too many, but I don't think it'll go much further.