PR: Nintendo Switch Best Selling week Ever (US) (8.2mil+Sold Switches LTD) [Update: 8.6mil+]

[Alby_da_Wolf]

fatslob-:O said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

I don't doubt them: they don't lie, it's just that PRs of each company carefully choose both wording and the most favourable interval within the period from the previous Monday to Cyber Monday and the best possible comparison between current numbers and their own company's previous ones or a relevant competitor's current or previous ones.
This makes comparisons more difficult for us: each year each company can choose BF week or BF weekend or the period between BF and Cyber Monday or between Thanksgiving and CM or the whole period of BF week plus CM and compare it with its own previous numbers or a competitor's current or previous ones, and they rarely make the same choice (unlike official financial reports, but those usually give quarterly results, they can add some PR spin about BF or Xmas or anything else that's positive for investors, but they must be precise on the whole quarter numbers they give, be they just revenue and profit or sales numbers too). If and only if each company gives us actual numbers for exactly the same period we can make a direct comparison. Second best situation for us is if a company won BF alone, BF weekend, the whole BF week and CM too, in that case we know the outcome whatever other PRs say.

Nintendo has released precise numbers for the Switch before the NPD Group did and within a margin of error of <100k ... 

There's no viable reason to believe that Nintendo doesn't have precise data especially when they practice telemetry so they can immediately receive data if a new Switch unit was activated or not through each unit's unique hardware ID which automatically translates to sell through numbers ... (9/10 households have internet access in the US so the method I proposed is fine for collecting high quality data) 

And Nintendo did give us hard figures numbers but quite a few on here are obviously reluctant to accept them and instead choose to perform mental gymnastics so here I can give a solid review about the Switch numbers below: 

"Nintendo Switch hardware sales grew 115 percent compared to the same period in 2017." (Bullshit) 

"Lifetime sales of Nintendo Switch, which is entering only its second holiday season, have reached more than 8.2 million units." (Valuable)

"Sales of first-party games, including digital downloads, topped 1 million units Nov. 22-26, beating 2017’s totals by 78 percent." (Valuable) 

"Nintendo Switch games Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! have hit combined U.S. sales of more than 1.5 million units since their Nov. 16 launch." (Valuable)

"Super Mario Party surpassed lifetime U.S. sales of 1 million units, becoming the fastest-selling game in the Mario Party series" (Valuable) 

"It became the best-selling Nintendo console in U.S. history for that five-day period, surpassing even Wii system sales." (Bullshit) 

I'm pretty sure you can now understand why the first and last statements are shitty since their not of any value when those statements aren't quantifiable while the statements in the middle are of value since it gives us arguably precise data and it's well implicated that Nintendo collected data up until the 26th of this month so the only true statement is that the "Nintendo Switch sold over 8.2M units on November 26 in the US" while the first or last statement is just useless crap ... 

Yep, I was focusing more on the fact that even true numbers are given in a way that makes BF week sales comparisons more difficult, but I agree with what you wrote.
Well, those valuable numbers already are very interesting and they tell us a lot, for  BF week direct comparison we'll use VGC and other estimates, with their margin of error, better after they'll have been adjusted when as many competitors' official numbers as possible will be available.