Evre Nintendo Switch game already passed 1m, and Zelda BotW and MK8D crazy attach rates (83% and 75%)

[Nautilus]

Lawlight said:

Nautilus said:

Thats another whole level of denial.A number cant be more precise and final than official numbers, which is what they are when they come from Nintendo.NPD and Media Create numbers are, in the end, estimations, which not always include digital(Media Create never includes digital).

NPD and Media Create use sell-through numbers, not sell-in. While I agree that as a general rule of thumb, shipped numbers are used, in this case, we know the sold through numbers and it is way lower than the shipped numbers. And fairly sure media create counts download carts. Even being optimistic about digital would not get you close to 1.2M.

I dont know how NPD really operates(but even not knowing that, they still work with aproximations and estimates), but for Media Create it is still an estimation.It is simply impossible to count every single game sold through stores, since they dont have direct acess to that data, something that the company that made the game has(read:Nintendo), and thus they make estimates based on data that they receive through whatever method they use, and make a very educated "guess" about the final sale(Its not really a guess since they probably have very precise formulas to calculate the sales, and they must have different and reliable sources for their data).But no matter as reliable as those number usually are, at the end of the day theyy are still guesses.Thats why you see differences in the numbers betwenn the different companies, such as the differences betwenn Media Create and Famitsu, which sometimes are rather big.And Famitsu counts download carts, but they are also estimates.

Reading through parts of the earnings release, they dont state if its sold-through, or sold in.But, even if it is shipped, the shipped in number is never really much off the sold through number.Assuming it is indeed shipped, from that 1.18 million units sold, I think its safe to assume that the sold-through number should at least be 1 million.As I said prior, Media Create and NPD are estimations at the end of the day, so there is always a margin of error, and digital sales are more important than ever nowadays, sometimes grabbing around 20% of the total software related sales.So basing your guess on only the NPD and Media Create numbers, and not only forgetting that Europe may very well make up for that difference and that the game may have a higher than normal number of digital sales, not to mention worldwide sales, is ridiculous when Nintendo itself are saying that the sales for the game are great.