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Miyamotoo on 18 December 2018
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Intrinsic said:
Miyamotoo said:

Ship numbers are only official numbers we have, and at end of March 2019. Switch will have around 36-37m shipped units, and around half of number that you mentioned (75-80m).

Keep in mind that all Nintendo numbers are ship (sold to retailers), so predictions for years should be for ship units, espacily when we talking about LT predictions because at end for any console ship units is equal sales units at end.

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/hard_soft/index.html

Sigh...

Don't know how else to say this.

I have NEVER been in a debate about how many consoles nintendo will ship.

I am using VGC sold numbers for nintendo. Whose numbers for nintendo and every other platform is the closest approximation of global sales we have that constantly gets adjusted whenever more sold to consumers numbers are given. 

But indulge me..... on nintendos IR site they have sales numbers for the NS at 22M as at end of september. Are you saying those are also tracking shipped numbers? Cause I believe they are not. And if that is the case then no, shipped numbers is not the only official numbers we have.

Nintendo site has Switch at end of September at 22.86m (it's much closer to 23m not to 22m), and those are official shipped numbers. Yes, officaly shipped numbers are only official numbers we have, only NIntendo can give you official numbers how much exactly they shipped, this site, NPD, MC...they all track numbers and gathering sales data, those cant be officially numbers, those are all 3rd party numbers.

 

 

p0isonparadise said: 
Intrinsic said: 

My own personal estimate fr the NS was originally 50M. 

It wasn't. http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8250033

Then that whole nintendo games and people buy nintendo consoles for nintendo games. All i will say to this is; how many of those people remain? Just look at the wiiU. Or do some here think that the wii sold so well because of nintendo games?

Anyways my predicion is no more than 35-40M lifetime. And my reason is price and no third parties.

What a blast from the past. 

This puts things in perspective.