duduspace1 said:
colafitte said:
I promised i will not talk anymore about WW sales for Switch but i want to clear out that i was discussing just TOTAL NUMBER SALES OF 3DS AGAINST NINTENDO SWITCH NOT BEING SO DIFFERENT. That's it. I added too that i prefered talking about asbolute succeses like total sales, because if we start talking about relative success like price points or discounts, then people have subjective opinions on the matter. You can say 3DS had a price cut and that's why it sold so much, so that's why you find Switch surprising and i can say that maybe, even if Nintendo cut the price of the Switch like the 3DS, the console would still selling about the same because Nintendo would not produce more, or as much more to compensate (this is not a thing that actually think, i was just proving a point) or that Switch did so good avoiding cut prices because its 1st party software was so good (and that won't last). You and I can't prove any of those things to be correct or not, but the number of sales are facts, that can't be discussed, and nobody here can deny the fact that at the end of the last quarter, official numbers for Switch and 3DS showed similar number of sales.
So my original post is still true: "I still don't know why people keep saying Switch is tracking way better than 3DS at the moment". What is true though, is that this is a NPD thread and Switch is indeed tracking better than 3ds in the same period of time in USA, but my post was directed to the discussion there was before about Switch lifetime sales worldwide and the comparison with previous Nintendo hardware, specifically 3DS.
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The 3DS price cut and its effect on the sales curve of the 3DS are however neither sentiment nor subjective, you need only look at the sales curve.
One could argue that discounting its effect is actually being sentimental and subjective.
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I guess i won't be able to fullfil my propise about not talking about this in this thread..., so sorry again mods, 
. Last one, i promise.
People saying Switch selling 20M with that price is more impressive than 3DS selling 20M with half the price can be right (although it could exist a lot of other reasons too). People saying Switch is tracking better (worldwide) than 3DS is technically true, but not by the amount some people are trying to convince others, because until last quarter annoucements both were pretty similar in sales (22'2M 3DS vs 23M Switch) launch aligned. That was my point.
And yes, the curve right now is favorable to Switch, but that doesn't change a bit what i was saying. I can't accept the explanation as to why Switch will do better than 3DS based on "3DS tracking way better than Switch, so that's why Switch will sell more than 80M or 85M" because until new official data is provided that is not the case yet.
