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Barkley on 20 October 2018
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AngryLittleAlchemist said:
Barkley said:

16m is it's first 13 months, as it includes march 3rd to march 31st 2017. Last FY the Switch sold 14.3m to consumers.

It is up so far this FY, ~4.8m this fiscal year compared to 3.97m for the same period last fiscal year. Still 4.8m in the first 6 months of the fiscal year isn't great when you want to ship 20m. Even if it sold 10m for october-december and another 3m for January-March they still need another 2.2m somewhere. I mean they can ship a little more than they sell to consumers but not that much.

You're saying it's only sold 4.8M since April? Seems kind of low, is that about normal for consoles?

It's not really low at all, the only reason we're talking about the number negatively is the massive expectations thrown on the system by Nintendo and others. 20m Forecast, or the many users on here who tipped the Switch to beat the PS4 this calendar year (it actually might come fairly close still!), or that one guy that thinks Switch is going to outsell the PS2.

For comparison PS4 sold about 5.7m since April and XBO sold about 2.9m. 4.8m is actually quite the achievement especially without releasing any big games, it's just not enough to hit lofty expectations.