That's why I included bundles in that part, I dont think we will see any price reductions but I think we can see some better added value bundles than we did last year.

Last year had the special edition Smash & Let's Go bundles but they cost the same as the console+game individually. Other than that they had the MK8D bundle for $299 on BF and a $35 eshop card included for much of December.

This year I could see the OG model MK8D bundle coming back and the $35 eshop being packed in with Lite but this time from BF all the way through Christmas for both.

Yeah I hope they do some good bundles like Sony/MS will, but they do have an annoying habit with the Switch so far of being stingy in terms of holiday deals. I just feel like they could do so much better if they loosened the purse strings a bit and did some killer deals like an aggressively priced Sword/Shield bundle.

I would like it if they did as well but I totally understand why they dont, last year saw shipments of 9.42m during the holidays and this year is looking like 10m+

Alright, let's account for if Famitsu got it wrong and do the 120,000 and 125,000 unit numbers.

At those units, divided by 0.3% would equate to:

40 million units (120,000)
41.67 million units (125,000)

So those would still be way below the mark and considerably lower than VGChartz' current worldwide estimates.

And if we reduce the percentage to 0.25%, they would equate to:

48 million units (120,000)
50 million units (125,000)

Now they would be way above the mark.
But all of them are way off from that 46.9 million figure.

There's way too much deviation and margins for error are far too great to be taken seriously, that's the point.

Alright, let's account for if Famitsu got it wrong and do the 120,000 and 125,000 unit numbers.

At those units, divided by 0.3% would equate to:

40 million units (120,000)
41.67 million units (125,000)

So those would still be way below the mark and considerably lower than VGChartz' current worldwide estimates.

And if we reduce the percentage to 0.25%, they would equate to:

48 million units (120,000)
50 million units (125,000)

Now they would be way above the mark.
But all of them are way off from that 46.9 million figure.

There's way too much deviation and margins for error are far too great to be taken seriously, that's the point. In any statistics class you take in college, the point is to maintain the smallest margin of error as possible. Enough to where you can narrow it down to a specific, small range. This range is all over the place. From as low as 36 million to as high as 50 million. You'd have better luck throwing a dart and trying to hit a bulls-eye with a blindfold on. 

Bottom line: There is absolutely no reason whatsoever why we should take CNBC seriously over other trackers and sources that have proven, time and time again, to be much more reliable and accurate. That's all there is to it, and if you can't understand that, then I see no point or purpose to continue this conversation. We're done here.

And I guess the point here also is that there is no reason whatsoever why we should take Famitsu and other trackers over CNBC since all of these provide estimate based reporting. So would you mind explaining how these other trackers are more reliable and accurate. Any proof would be welcomed. I think that is going to be difficult since MS themselves do not report on their console sales numbers.

Well, if you actually bothered paying attention to what's been said in this thread, Famitsu and other trackers have always been accurate and close when it comes to tracking Sony and Nintendo, and they certainly never put out the wrong or inaccurate sales figures AFTER Sony or Nintendo published theirs like CNBC did with the PS4.

Turns out that the unreliable analysis came from IHS. They had the PS4 at a flat 53m despite Sony's announcement of 53.4m.

https://www.mcvuk.com/ihs-world-console-market-down-in-2016-but-ps4-claims-51-share-over-xbox-ones-26/

So this means IDC can't be discredited based on the specific precedence linked above, but merely based on the maths for their current figures; Japan accounting for 0.3% of global Xbox One sales simply doesn't add up.

Do you still think Switch won't outsell the Xbox One in lifetime sales, as you insisted back in 2017/2018?