Global Hardware 6 October 2018

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haxxiy said:

Mar1217 said:

I'm pretty sure it'll do over that just fine. Right now, it's easily outpacing the 3DS numbers worldwide without even getting it's first cut while the 3DS needed a massive cut to get going in the first place, then it had a revision almost each successive year to keep it going.

Is it yet, though? The 3DS sold about 7.6m the last quarter of 2012. Can you really see some 29.8m Switches shipped by the end of the year? It would have to seriously overperform to get there. Nearly 60% of a console's yearly sales, on average, are gone already, as of the latest global charts.

Either way, it's an interesting comparison, since both consoles released on similar periods and are tracking very closely so far.

 

 

30m by this years end? Definitely. It was at 19.6m by the end of June, so it would comfortably be at 22m as of the end of September (we shoulld officially know that in a week from now). All it needs is to ship less than 8m on the holiday quarter (Oct/Nov/Dec), which is basically what it did last year without bundles and only with Odyssey + Xenoblade Chronicles 2 as main sellers. This year, the Pokémon + Smash combo is definitely stronger than that, so I can't see them shipping less than last year all things considered.