Japan sales (Week 7): Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - February 12-18, 2018

[Megiddo]

RolStoppable said:

Megiddo said:

It's going to be difficult for the Switch to hit 20 million next fiscal year with a 40-50k weekly average in Japan. I believe that's roughly 2-2.5 million for a year in one of its strongest regions. Hope it has some big plans for the second half of 2018 to be able to reach such a bold goal.

It has had this baseline without any new software releases that drive hardware sales, so once you factor in such game releases and the holiday spike, the number for a full year will be notably above 2-2.5m units.

The majority of the sales increase that Nintendo needs for Switch to sell 20m+ will have to come from other regions anyway.

Right, but before that baseline was mainly only due to stock shortages. Now, it may just be the new normal.

And yes, big game releases will definitely help. That's what I was alluding to with my post. Nintendo needs some big game releases for 2018.