Japan Sales Week 51 Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - December 17-23, 2018

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tak13 said:

Eagle367 said:

Wait we are helping the 3ds in US because if we take profitability in the west, the switch just destroys the 3ds. So we are taking the lowest common denoidenomi in both cases and I feel that is being fair. What do you see in that which you think is wrong?

 

The wrong thing is that some people here behave like they won't care at all if NS sells as much as or a bit more than wii in Japan , so half of 3ds ( this is its potential as it is now ) because of the huge amount of profits that it will be making ( which in most cases matter more) , when they exculting on npd threads about sales difference between 3DS and NS.

There is a contradiction!

People can be happy that it outsells 3DS in the West while also saying it's fine if it sells less than 3DS in Japan. These things do not contradict each other.

Also show me one person who said anything about Switch selling as low as Wii in Japan because it's already on pace to destroy Wii sales there.

Wii

2007-3.69m

2008-2.86m (-23%)

2009-2.13m (-26%)

2010-1.51m (-29%)

 

NSW

2017-3.31m

2018-~3.54m (+7%)

 

Look at Wii, it started out strong and had an amazing first year but it was short lived and had a steady decline in years 2, 3 & 4. Switch is having the opposite trajectory, it had a really good first year followed by a slightly better 2nd year and with games like Animal Crossing, Pokemon Gen 8, Fire Emblem, Yokai Watch, Dragon Quest XI, etc and a potential price cut/revision, its 3rd year should see an improvement and a much less severe drop in year 4. Switch is going to blow Wii out of the water in Japan.