Labo is going to have trouble selling that initial shipment. The 1st week sales were 90,410 for the Variety Kit and 28,629 for the Robot Kit, which is about 119,000 units combined, but apparently this was only about 30% sell through of the initial shipment in Japan. So that means Nintendo shipped about 380,000 between the two kits in Japan as its first shipment.
https://www.dualshockers.com/nintendo-labo-sales-japan/
Today, post Golden Week and now 4 tracking weeks on market, Labo (both versions) is sitting at 201,500 sold through approximately in Japan. That means Japanese retailers are stuck with a shit-ton of unsold inventory and given how Labo's not showing great legs (already sub-10k for the Variety kit, sub 2500 for the Robot Kit) it probably means Labo is likely going to have to be discounted heavily to sell through its initial shipment.
Wii/DS era my ass, this is not anywhere close, Nintendo can keep trying to bang their head against this wall again and again or they accept the market as it actually is today and get back to what was making the Switch successful last year.
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