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Nuvendil on 13 April 2017
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Intrinsic said:
Nuvendil said:

Well no, it doesn't matter who you target, the Holidays are a period where people are most readily parting with large sums of money.  Best way to put it is that in the Holidays, the hundreds of dollars are *going* to be spent and you are competing to be the thing they are spent on.  In March, people don't normally spend hundreds of dollars, so you are competing largely against their own apathy or defensiveness against spending.  In short, you are fighting to get them to actually spend the money in the first place.  Which is a significant difference and what makes this impressive as Nintendo convinced this many people to spend 360+ in a period when they normally avoid sizable spending.

Two words.... launch console.

How about this, the PS2 sold over 800k on launch day.... in japan.... in march.

The PS4 sold 1M consols on launch  day in NA.... then went on to sell under 50k the following week due to shortages.

Thats just how launch hardware goes.

First off, the Switch is also supply constrained, just fyi.  

Second, I was referring to the States specifically.  I don't know the exact spread of spending in Japan but in the states spending on stuff like games, consoles, etc is absurdly heavily skewed towards the Holidays.  Selling 906k in March in the States (and being aupply constrained meaning it could have sold more) is nothing to sneeze at.  Also, the fact PS2 did that does not make what the Switch did not impressive both due to what I just said and due to the fact that the two - Switch being impressive and the PS2 being impressive - not mutually exclusive.  Especially since the PS2 is the best selling console ever.