Pachter: Switch on track to sell only 8 million systems this Fiscal Year

[Megiddo]

Mnementh said:

Megiddo said:

Title needs to be updated as he only mentions that the Switch is tracking towards only shipping 8 mil this fiscal year, which is basically just saying that the first quarter was awful, which it was. Nintendo needs stronger quarters than that if it hopes to come even close to shipping 20 million this fiscal year.

Yeah, he says they are tracking for 8M. But he follows up with 'They'll miss by a mile'. So, does he genuinely think that nothing changes the other quarters? I mean, he is in the industry long enough to know, this quarter is usually pretty low, and Q3 will be much higher. So even only considering basically constant performance the usual doubling in Q3 would mean Switch is on track for 10 million. So I really don't understand why he followed up with, that Nintendo will miss by a mile. He must know pretty well, that it will go up - by how much iis up in the air.

All depends on what a person thinks "miss by a mile" means. It's not a direct quantitative assessment. If Switch misses the goal by 4 million would that be missing by a mile? Some would say yes and some would say no.