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Megiddo on 29 November 2018
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RolStoppable said:
Megiddo said:

Not that I have a time machine or anything, but isn't it pretty normal for there to be a big hefty restock for Nintendo consoles at the launch of a big game. I went back and read the PR and it looks like what happened was it suggested Switch sales of 115k for up to the date of MK8D's launch, and then the day it launched and the few days afterwards is when it got the extra 150k sales because there was a big restock in stores and because MK8D is a hugely successful software title. Or is that not the case?

April 2017 covered April 2nd through April 29th. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe released on April 28th.

That makes 165k Switch consoles sold in only two days (82.5k per day) while the preceding 26 days averaged ~4.4k per day.

Sounds about right for a system that was extremely hard to come by post-launch that was then given a comparatively big restock.