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Lawlight on 06 November 2017
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Shadow1980 said:
Lawlight said:

Why is he being quoted here? I don’t see what he said wrong. People were saying that the 3DS was beasting in the US and when he checked the sales, it was at 2M.

He's wrong because he's suggesting that 2M in six months isn't successful. Once you take into account the facts that the Switch launched in March instead of Q4 (which does matter), the Switch's sales are pretty good. It had the second-best launch month of any system ever in the U.S.:

And sales in Q2 & Q3 were pretty good, despite supply issues:

The Switch ought to sell at least 4.5M this year, which comparing it to other systems' first calendar year performances gives us this:

So much factual yet misleading information in there.

- The Switch had more days on the market for the launch month that both the PS4 and the X1. Do a unit sales per day chart and the difference is highlighted much more. The X1 for example sold those numbers in 9 days.

- How are you calculating the Switch’s first full calendar year when this year won’t be its full calendar year? And are you including its launch month?

Last edited by Lawlight - on 06 November 2017