GameStop: Nintendo Switch is Selling Out “Within Hours”; Demand “Incredibly Strong”

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bonzobanana said:

zorg1000 said:

there was a large drop in hardware sales after 2 million for Wii U.

it sold 2 million in the first month and took a full year to hit 4 million.

It looks like it shot past 3 million easily and then it started braking but I accept it was already in trouble before 4 million looking at this.

that is shipments, not sell through.

Notice how terrible those Q1/Q2 2013 shipments are? Thats because they had so much excess stock at the end of 2012.

According to NPD+Media Create, there was over 500k units sitting on store shelves in America+Japan.

The region Nintendo labels Others was even worse, they had shipped 900k at the end of Dec 2012 and by Sept 2013 shipments had only grown to 1.01 million. Thats just over 100k in 9 months and they actually had negative shipments (retailers sending units back) over the summer. There had to have been a few 100k units on store shelves at the end of 2012.

So based on all that, we can conclude that sell through for Wii U at the end of 2012 was much closer to 2 million which lines up well with Vgchartz numbers of 2.17 million as of Dec 29, 2012.