Japan Sales- Switch Year 1 vs 3DS and Wii U

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konnichiwa said:

Miyamotoo said:

Of Course, with next week sales we entering holiday season and Nintendo definitely will prepare and ship much more units for holiday season compared to previous weeks. Nintendo recently said they increased production and they will start shipping much more units, and their plan is to ship around 7m Switch units during Q4 and of course most of that will go through holiday season.

Well that's the thing, Japan holiday season isn't like the West.  End december/january is popular for holiday releases and the famous winter sale that you may compare like ours (end november/December) That's why I expect them to send more to the West (and I guess now also a shipment to Korea) having 100K stock available weekly till end december should be an achievement.

More will be sent to the west but Japan will still get a sizeable shipment.

Shipments as of Sept 30 2017-7.62 million

Japan-1.95 million (~25%)

Outside Japan-5.67 million (~75%)

 

They will ship 6-7 million this quarter and using the 25/75 split gives us 1.5+ million for Japan and ~5 million for the West.