Switch Breaks Nintendo Sales Records in Americas & Japanese Sales ~330k+

[Intrinsic]

SpokenTruth said:

Intrinsic said:

Please explain... why won't they be a regular thing? PS4 did it, XB1 did it.... and both did better than their previous console launches, which did better than their previous console launces..... so what metric other than nintendo not doing it do you have to suggest that it wouldn't be a normal thing.

And this march nonsense again...... ok, lets just settle it. Are you aware that the PS2 relead on march 4th  in japan? And sold over 900k consols (980k to be exact) by march 5th. 24hrs after launch? In just one market.

So what exactly are you trying to say?

Those numbers were retail orders, not consumer sales.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/03/06/sony_sells_980_000_playstation/

 

Point still stands.... sony had actually taken the orders (and money) of siginidficantly more consoles than it was actually able to manufacture. And lendig to what i was saying, that meant that every machine coming off the line was already bought by someone. Long story short, thats generally how launches go. And if sony were able to have actually brought those consoles to market they would have been sold too.... well, because people had already paid for them.