trent44 said:
My guess is that, at this financial results meeting, Nintendo will announce that they have shipped 7.5 million consoles by September 30, 2017 Possibly wrong, but based on what we have observed in NPD and MC results, they have definitely shipped more for July through September, than they did for April through June. Even if Nintendo had 0% increase, they would have still shipped 6.72 million switches 2.74 + 1.96 + 1.96 = 6.72 Assuming they can do "only" 1.5 million per month for the Holidays + Jan and Feb, that would still put the first 12 months LTD at 14.22 million Switches Shipped, 6.72 + 5x(1.5) = 14.22 Indeed, it will be interesting to see how it all turns out... |
I think 7.5 million is a little too optimistic. That would only be possible if the shipment increase to the Americas and Other was to the same degree as the shipment increase to Japan, and NPD data indicates that this is unlikely. I'm guessing lifetime shipments as of September 30th will be somewhere between 6.9M and 7.2M.
