Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - 7th - 13th Aug 2017

[Mnementh]

Kerotan said:

RolStoppable said:
This week is the final confirmation that Switch production is up. What's worth to note is that we are going to see fluctuations in weekly sales as long as Switch sells through its shipments virtually instantly. Something like 60k (last week), 90k (this week), 65k, 85k, 75k, 85k, 60k, 80k wouldn't be surprising, because weekly shipments aren't going to be consistent. When the DS remained sold out through 2016, the weekly hardware sales also fluctuated with swings of up to 30k units from week to week.

Is production up or are they just allocating Japan a higher percentage of switches that previously would have went to other regions?  NPD data and the availability in europe would suggest this is likely.

NPD data is from July. In Japan only the last two weeks the sales were up. I expected less for Switch in NPD, because I assumed 20% up for two weeks, so overall 10% up. Switch clearly outperformed that. This thread is already august and has another production increase. So we still have to see if NPD will also be up.

I agree on europe though, seemingly demand is (barely) met for some time now.