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RolStoppable said:
shoichi said:

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.

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).

A 173% increase to a base value of 4.875m results in ~13.3m, so a 172.9% in unit sales can be ruled out. Either the provided increase by Famitsu is wrong or the comparison is revenue-based. I believe it's the latter.

IMO, its more likely the website that the OP linked from just phrased the title incorrectly. 

The Famitsu website source is talking about hardware sale numbers and not revenue numbers. 

edit: Yup you are correct. Looked at the source article to find where the information was gathered.

translated the part where the info is located

https://www.famitsu.com/news/201801/09149462.html

単位(Units):億円 (PER 100 MILLION YEN[PER 1 MILLION USD])

2017年(year)(53週(weeks))
ハード(hardware):2023.7(昨年対比 (contrast compared to prior year) 172.9%)
ソフト(software):1893.8(昨年対比 (contrast) 103.8%)
合計(total):3917.5(昨年対比 (contrast) 130.8%)

2016年(year)(52週(weeks))
ハード(hardware):1170.5
ソフト(software):1824.3
合計(total):2994.8

Last edited by shoichi - on 09 January 2018