RolStoppable said:
The numbers for total hardware sales in 2016 and 2017 I have in my mind are ~4.5m and ~8m, respectively. Exact figures will differ, but relative to each other they should be in the right ballpark. On second thought though, the comparison could very well be based on revenue instead of unit sales, in which case there would be no contradiction. Unit sales up by ~70%, revenue up by ~170%. I didn't click the link in the OP and went with unit sales in my initial post. Still didn't click the link, but a revenue-based comparison is a good enough explanation. |
172.9% is not that outrageous. Need to remember 70% of 2016 sales would be 3,412,773 using Famitsu's data for 2016 (a decrease YoY), 170% increase is 8,288,163 sold (an increase YoY). I think you may be understanding %'s incorrectly in this case, 100% equals same level, 50% equals half the level, 150% equals 1.5x the level. If anything the wording was just incorrectly phrased.
This is all using Famitsu data as comparative to 2016 console sales which according to the link below sold a total of 4,875,390 game systems in 2016.
https://www.serkantoto.com/2017/01/06/size-of-japans-console-gaming-market/
Using just the information that Famitsu has provided, they believe the Switch by itself sold somewhere around 3.3 million or so in Japan alone in 2017. That is equal to 67% of 2016 total game systems (PS4, WiiU, XBO, 3DS, etc.) in Japan sold.
Using data from the charts forum. About 4.2 million "other" consoles have been sold in 2017.
1,935,247 PS4, 396,207 Vita, 14,644 XBO, 21,817 WiiU, 16,394 PS3, 1,827,131 3DS
Combining the 3.3 with the 4.2 equals 7.5 million estimated. Which is close-ish to the number of 173% increase (number is closer to 165% though based on what info I had gathered though it may be incorrect).
Last edited by shoichi - on 09 January 2018
