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Miyamotoo on 18 September 2018
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Shadow1980 said:
Miyamotoo said:

Great Job!

So despite Switch still didnt had any any big year this year or any price cut still, until August is selling on pair of what PS4 was selling in 2014. and 2015., very impressive for Switch and Switch would easily beat PS4 in those years with sales in November and December.

Also, Switch beating 3DS in every single market with obvious difference is also very positive.

Actually, the Switch is selling a bit slower than the 3DS in Japan:

It's posting much better numbers than a home console typically does, but so far it's not been doing as strongly as the 3DS. To be fair, though, the 3DS was posting absolutely amazing numbers for the 2011-2013 period, some of the best in the history of the Japanese market (the 3DS's 2012 performance in particular was the third-best year for any single system, after the DS's showings in 2006 & 2007), and it's the #3 best-selling system ever there after the DS and Game Boy. So, that's hardly a slight against the Switch. We'll have to see what happens once it gets a main-series Pokemon game and a price cut under its belt, and maybe a couple of other series that did well on Nintendo handhelds (e.g., Animal Crossing), before we can get an idea of how well the Switch will do longer-term in Japan.

Uf, my mistake I wanted to wrote every single month instead of every single market.

Talking about 3DS in Japan, 3DS needed huge price drop in order to start selling much better, and like you wrote 3DS had very strong sales in Japan and its 3rd best selling gaming hardware ever in Japan, while Switch still have launch price and very high price point for typical handheld apeal and popularity on market, when Switch get price point of around $200 that could be called handheld price point, Switch sales will explode in Japan, we will then see multiple Switch devices per household. I think that in long term Switch will also pass 20m in Japan, I mean at end of this year Switch will pass 7m sold units in Japan and we talking about less than 2 years on market with still full price point and without any revision.