| StarDoor said: You misunderstood what I said. I didn't say 750k and 660k were the literal shipment numbers, I said those were the differences between sell-through at the end of Q2 and sell-in at the end of Q1. You would then add unsold stock to those numbers to get the shipment numbers for the quarter. Switch is still as supply-constrained as ever in Japan, so I doubt that there's a larger amount of unsold stock there than there was in June. In the Americas, USA sell-in was 378k below total shipments, which has probably increased to around 550k as of September. So 2.26M + 550k is 2.81M. As for Other, its sales are usually between the Americas and Japan, although probably closer to Japan at this point. Americas: 2.81M (+860k) Now, if PS4 actually did as well this year in the USA as in previous years, then maybe the number for the Americas is too low (I expected Switch to sell 260k in September, based on the same weekly sales rate as in August), but I think this is countered by the Other numbers being too high. VGChartz seems to think that Switch in Europe is selling only 60% of what it's selling in North America, and it's not like RoW is going to make up the difference. |
Oh ok, makes sense, sorry for the misunderstood.
As for Switch numbers in September NPD, the PS4 sold an estimate of around 191,000 units in August. Now, September is always an increase in weekly sales, and it also was Destiny 2 and NBA month (both games sold over 1.3 million units at retail, withouth digital), Destiny 2 had a bundle as well.
I know all, i know Destiny 2 underperformed, i know the bundle was probabily pretty niche and expensive, i get all, but still, September is a bigger month than August in general, and i'm sure NBA and Destiny made a bit boost of PS4 sales. September is a 5 weeks month compared to August 4 weeks, so, if Switch sold 260k this month, and the PS4 less than that, this would mean the weekly sales of PS4 were up by only 9% this month. For a comparation:
September 2014 = +126% (Destiny month, PS4 white bundle, huge month)
September 2015 = +37%
September 2016 = +43%
I can see this year being the smaller increase, but should still be a bit more than that. And, Switch is over PS4 so you see.
Also, VGChartz numbers are inaccurate if VGC does not have a source to get the numbers, so better no use them.
