RolStoppable said:
From sell-through data. Your 3m figure is shipped. If you stick with shipment data and add the following quarter for Wii U, you get a total of only 3.45m, meaning that the console didn't even ship 0.5m in the three months after its launch period. That averages to shipments of roughly 30k units per week. For comparison, Switch sells through this amount in Japan alone, so the updated shipment figures we'll get in July should eclipse 2m units worldwide for the April to June quarter. We can expect roughly 5m LTD for Switch, so ~1.5m ahead of the Wii U's 3.45m in a comparable timeframe. Looking ahead to the following quarter for both systems, Wii U remains dead in the water due to no noteworthy releases in April to June 2013. On the other hand, Switch starts off its corresponding July to September quarter with Splatoon 2 on top of the strong momentum it already has. So while Wii U won't get to 4m LTD through its first three financial quarters, Switch should be closing in on 7.5-8m, growing the gap in shipments from ~1.5m to ~4m. This trend will keep going, so one year from now Switch will have already sold more units than Wii U did in its entire lifetime. The only conclusion that can be drawn from this is that Switch is selling well beyond the Wii U userbase. |
Not saying you are wrong, but where can I find sold though numbers?
