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quickrick on 05 January 2018
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quickrick said:

 

 

Shadow1980 said:

The Switch was at about 2.62M at the end of October, so this means that combined Nov.+Dec. sales were at least 2.18M. We never got an exact number for November, but assuming it was between 750-800k we can peg December at around 1.4M, plus or minus several hundred thousand.

Oh, and I can't help but mention that in this case a launch-aligned comparison isn't exactly apt. After 10 months, no other console had a full non-launch holiday season. The the PS1 & N64's 10th month would have been a June, the PS2's would have been a July, and every other console from the Xbox & GameCube up to the PS4 & XBO would have their 10th month in an August.

Not trying to downplay the Switch's excellent first year. Just putting it into perspective. A better comparison would be to compare the Switch to the first full calendar year of those other systems. Granted, the Switch didn't have a full Q1, but its March was comparable to the first Q1 of other successful systems. Comparing the Switch's 2017 to the first full calendar year of other systems from the past four generations, we get this:

Not nearly as good as the Wii or PS2, but those are very high bars that we shouldn't expect anything else to reach. But it is a bit ahead of the PS4 & N64.

i post this chart to show first year sales doesn't mean as much a people think it does. i

 

Ryng_Tolu said:
quickrick said:

Just look at 3ds sales, switch will follow a similar pattern, but be way more front loaded due it having most if its big franchises released early, and the small user base that still  buys nintendo consoles giving it a boost. in reality if ps4 released in march it would have beaten the switch this year by a good margin. nintendo doesn't have third-party support,  and sales will fall hard like 3ds and N64 in the US.

3DS launched at 250$, and dropped to 170$ in 5 monhts, Switch launched at 300$ and it has not dropped in price yet, the reason is because the demand is still too high and it won't go anywhere, expecially because Switch had shortages for almost all year.

But hey ok, think what you want, think that if PS4 was released in March it would have sold more than in the holidays :D

it had a million preorders 3 months before launch, and sold out within 24 hours. only shipped round 700k for December. it could have sold around the same easy for april in march, just like wii and 360 could sold the same if released in a none  holiday period.