CaptainExplosion said:
Oneeee-Chan!!! said:
Nintendo has previously said that Switch is its fastest-selling system ever. More information is provided by the NPD Group today.
According to analyst Sam Naji, “Switch had the biggest hardware launch for a Nintendo platform and the second biggest launch for any video game platform since 1995, the time NPD began tracking this category.”
Naji later added:
“In this debut month (month 1), the Nintendo Switch sold 31K more units than previous best-selling Nintendo month-1 platform, the Game Boy Advance, which released back in June 2001. The two Nintendo Switch SKUs, the 32GB Gray Joy-Con, followed by the 32GB Neon Red/Blue Joy-Con, were the best-selling systems for the month.”
Between the time NPD started tracking sales in 1995, Zelda’s total since then is at $1.4 billion. Naji also says that the franchise “is the top-selling property of all time within the Adventure super genre, selling 54 percent more revenue than the next best-selling franchise, Resident Evil.”
Naji concluded by confirming that “Switch’s packaged software sold 1.3m units, a record high for a Nintendo platform launch.” 1-2-Switch also had an attach rate of 19 percent.
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Dammit Nintendo this is why you should've made 1-2 Switch a pack-in game on launch!!
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I think that kinda shows the Switch is its own thing and it's being driven by its own demographics, not those of the Wii/DS era.
81% of Switch owners not bothering with 1,2 Switch even with little competetion from anything else and Zelda having an attach rate over 100% says a lot.
Nintendo made the right call not bundling 1,2 Switch, it would have made the system look like a novelty and ran counter to their main marketing of the system which was primarily aimed at adult males. The whole "people are going to take 1,2 Switch to parties and it's going to become a phenom!" type thing was never going to take off.
