Global Hardware 3-18-17

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Ka-pi96 said:

Slarvax said:
I don't know where to post this, but Switch software totals are amazingly undertracked. Nintendo reported 5.5 million software at the end of the FY, and sure that includes digital, but VGC has the Switch software totals at 2.9 million units as of April 1st. For reference, BotW alone has sold 2.76 million units as of March 31st.

Wouldn't that be shipped rather than sold though? Would make sense there would still be a lot of games in stores.

Looking at the Wii U, VGC has 4.5m software shipped by the end of Dec 2012, while Nintendo's reported software figure is 11.6m https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2013/130130e.pdf

Either that's got to be shipped and having a few million games on shelves still is fairly normal, or the Wii U had absolutely insane digital sales! Or that's undertracked too I guess, but VGC is usually better at historical stuff right?

Oh of course, but the fact that BotW by itself is almost at VGC totals for all software is too much of a discrepancy. It makes sense for a lot of software to be on shelves, but BotW had an enormouse attach rate.

And we are giving Switch digital downloads too much credit. There's only 25 GB (7 GB of the 32 are used by the OS) of storage per Switch, which is less than 2 copies of BotW (without updates).