Is LABO going to explode this holiday?

[DonFerrari]

TheMisterManGuy said:

outlawauron said:

First week shipment I have seen for the Variety Kit is 280k, not 200k.

For comparison these are the biggest launch shipments of Nintendo Switch titles in Japan, all of these data is of course retail only.

Numbers for Super Mario Odyssey and Nintendo Labo Kit 1 are estimates. pic.twitter.com/6O4M5Hdv3R

— Game Data Library (@GameDataLibrary) November 23, 2018

That's what I was operating my post off of.

That can't be right. That would mean that that Nintendo only shipped 20k of the Robot Kit, which isn't really possible since Nintendo shipped 300k total of the first Labo wave (Variety and Robot) in Japan, and even the Robot Kit is well over 20k in sales. The Vehicle Kit had a greatly reduced shipment, which leads me to believe that it's numbers were roughly in the 50k range. 

DonFerrari said:

So you have been in VGC for 5 years and still haven't learn that companies say sold in meaning sold to retailers which is shipped? When they want to say they are sold through to end customers they are very explicit and say it is an estimation and give source/timebase because they can never be sure of it. And they giving incorrect numbers open liabilities for lawsuit.

VGChartz isn't the most reliable source for determining a game's sales, especially when said game just came out. So all we have to go by is the regional sales charts, and what numbers the company gives us. So if Nintendo said Labo has sold 1.39 million units worldwide, that's all the data we really have for now. 

No problem. As long as you call it shipped instead of sold I'm fine with the 1.39 (which is basically initial shipment).