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Megiddo on 20 November 2018
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zorg1000 said:
Megiddo said:

Last year  was the first time during the holidays to buy a Switch for Zelda BOTW, MK8D, Splatoon 2, and SMO.  It had 4 dynamite games to sell last year for those wanting a Christmas gift. Switch had the perfect first year lineup, whereas the second year basically comes down to Pokemon and Smash.

People are seriously, seriously selling last year's lineup short and/or are vastly overestimating this year's lineup.

It's essentially flat YOY for the first 10 months on the strength of last years evergreens along with a handful of mid-tier titles (Kirby, Donkey Kong, Mario Tennis, Mario Party).

To think it wont be comfortably up once actual major system sellers appear seems a bit odd to me.

Yes, it is flat YoY against a year where Nintendo couldn't manufacture enough Switch units to satisfy demand resulting in stock shortages. I'm not sure why you think that's odd. Do you think that the Switch would be even remotely close to flat YoY if Nintendo didn't have widespread stock shortages last year and could actually meet the demand for their product as they have been doing so for this entire year? Do you think that the stock shortages didn't have any impact whatsoever on the first two quarters of FY17?