Nintendo's FY 6 month earnings report: Switch - 7.6m, Splatoon 2 - 3.6m

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mZuzek said:

LipeJJ said:

Wii and PS4 both released on the holidays, so they have that advantage. It will be more interesting and fair to compare the first 12 months of each console.

Btw, these results really surprised me. I thought Switch would be at 7m, but it's actually at 7.6m, so I guess that 10m this year is really a given at this point. Might as well reach 12m.

Saying 10m this year is a given is quite an understatement actually. If it sold 2.9m last quarter, something would have to go horribly wrong for it to sell under 2.4m in the last 3 months of 2017. And by horribly wrong, I mean probably like I don't know, a meteor falling straight down on Nintendo's headquarters or something.

12m this year feels almost like a safe guess, which is insane to think about. Even I didn't see this coming and I was optimistic about the console's performance from day one (day one being October 20th last year, not March 3rd this year).

I know, right? It's just that there were doubters of the 10m mark like 2 months ago.

I think 12m is probably a safe guess indeed, but it's probably what Nintendo expects since they changed their numbers to 14m first year (as in, first 12 months), so that probably means they expect something like 12.5m this year + 1.5m in January/February. I think it won't go further than this due to stock as I bet it will still have stock issues this holiday.