Reggie: Nintendo Switch Is Setting Sales Records Every Day, We’ve Turned the Industry on Its Ear

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RolStoppable said:

zorg1000 said:

no it didnt, it shipped 3.06 million in a month but was waaaayyyyyy overshipped.

Shipments as of Dec 31, 2012-3.06 million

Sell through as of Dec 29, 2012-2.17 million

Sell through as of June 29, 2012-3.06 million

There was close to 1 million units on shelves after the first month and it took an extra 6 months to sell them all.

It's so funny that people still say that the Wii U had a great launch. Iwata's official statement back then was "not bad" which shows how bad it really was. He couldn't even call it good.

Now that we are approaching April and Switch still hasn't dropped off a cliff (you know, some people here really predicted Switch would do worse than Wii U), we are going into the phase of "it was always obvious that Switch would do well in March and April." Doomsday will probably get postponed on a monthly basis.

In any case though, it looks safe to say now that Switch won't follow the trajectory of 3DS and Wii U. Wii U was really bad for a holiday launch, the 3DS lost steam after a month, so by the time it launched in America and Europe (March 2011), it already didn't look good anymore in Japan (February 2011 launch).

It's been out for 3 weeks rol...