Japan Sales Week 46 Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - November 12-18, 2018

[Megiddo]

Barkley said:

RolStoppable said:
Pleasantly surprised by Switch numbers after seeing how many replies this thread had gotten in such a short span of time.

So Switch is back to being up year over year and the comparison going forward is Xenoblade Chronicles 2 vs. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. I think 2018 has a slight advantage, as tiny as it might be.

I expect sales for week 47-52 to be at least 25% higher than last year with Pokemon and Smash going forward, more than a slight advantage imo. I guess next week will be very telling.

Megiddo said: 

Correct, that's Christmas week. If it was Smash + Christmas there'd be no way I'd take that bet.

However after Pokemon + Smash bundle achieved 200k, seeing 100k increase from Smash alone is quite a stretch.

Smash bundle was never going to move many units when it launched.

Going to stop you right there. The Smash bundle has been the top ranked Switch console SKU on Amazon.co.jp for almost 2 months now. This week's numbers is the culimination of all those Smash bundle pre-orders.