March 2017 NPD Thread! Software charts up!

[Normchacho]

zorg1000 said:

Normchacho said:

That's a good point actually. Looking at VGC numbers the Wii U sold 760K in the US in it's first 28 days. That puts the Switch at about 142K or about 19% better. It will be interesting to see how the Switch performs in the next few months.

Switch did better in March than Wii U in Nov+Dec

 

Green098 said:

Normchacho said:

That's a good point actually. Looking at VGC numbers the Wii U sold 760K in the US in it's first 28 days. That puts the Switch at about 142K or about 19% better. It will be interesting to see how the Switch performs in the next few months.

Although a Holiday vs March launch also skews things. First year sales will be a better comparison.

Is there evience to support the speculation that the holidays positively affect console launch sales? I'm not saying they don't, I just haven't seen any actual evidence that says it does. Also, I think you could find evidece to support the idea that modern launches represent a larger portion of a consoles first year sales compared to older launches. So that may skew the numbers in Switches favor.

 

Like I said, I haven't seen actual evidence to support either just yet. But I'll do some digging either tonight or tomorrow morning.