Nintendo Switch exceeds 2.6m sales in the US; Mario Odyssey exceeds 1.1m in the US

[zorg1000]

Shadow1980 said:

zorg1000 said:

Great post..........but he will find a way to deflect the point.

I was actually compiling data for his "daily average" argument when I realized that said average can be greatly skewed depending on what time of the month a system is released. Let's say System A gets two weeks of sales during launch month, pulling 400k in Week 1 but only 50k in Week 2. It's competitor, System B, is released exactly a week later, getting one week of sales but pulling down only 300k that one week. It does, say, 40k Week 2, but that week is part of the next sales month so it doesn't count. That gives System A an average of 32,143 units per day for launch month, but System B manages 42,857 units per day for the same month despite having worse sales. It had fully a third fewer sales for the month, but crammed those into half as many days.

For all we know, the Switch could have sold 600k its first week, with the remaining four weeks of the March sales period accounting for the remaining 310k. But spead that out over a period of 30 days, and you get only an average of about 30k/day. Meanwhile, the XBO may have pulled 600k its first week as well, but only 309k the next week (which was Black Friday week). Since the NPD doesn't track sales on a weekly basis, we don't know for sure.

TL;DR, a "daily average for the month" metric is useless for launch months.

 

Yep a daily average for the month is absolutely rediculous.

 

For some people having their system of choice do well isnt enough, they have to downplay the success of others and that is exactly what Lawlight is known for.