January 2018 NPD Thread! Switch #1

[kopstudent89]

Farsala said:

thelalaby said:

It had its biggest January since 2013, how is that "pretty typical"?

5 weeks vs 4 weeks?

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8732772

To break it down further

2012 - 40k/w
2013 - 29k/w
2014 - 24.25k/w
2015 - 18.5k/w
2016 - 17.5k/w
2017 - no numbers, but less than in 2018
2018- between 24k and 29k a week

I think 2017 was up on 2016 due to pokemon go. Thus I think other than the peak year the sales are pretty typical and therefore pretty good.

Best december since 2011 and best january since 2013 for a 7 year old system that, and let's be honest, hasn't aged well graphically, and still has low resolution. It's quite insane to me that after the Pokemon Go hype has died it's still able to put up these numbers. Yeah not a significant jump but many expected it to die out in 2015 and it's still chugging decent amount of sales.