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

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tak13 said:

Miyamotoo said:

Yes, I was expecting some 300k+ weeks, we didnt got 300k+ weeks but we got 280k weeks 3 times in a row, so not big difference in any case compared to 300k+ week.

Also your claim that "ns has a problem in Japan, which in the long run will become more and more visible" is pure nonsense, Switch has very good sales in Japan in any case and with price cut and revision sales can be only better.

And 350k+ in week 51 right? Voila, 280k and prior to pokemon, smash and bundles release, it had gone yoy down compared to a year that it was supply constrained. 

NS problem is that while it destroys the way cheaper 3ds in the west and sells as much as 3ds+wii u or even a bit more, which is what is meant to do since it is both handheld and home console for 300$, in Japan it's trailing 3ds for 3m and it will get worse.

What happens untill hat speculative revision or price drop arrives? 

Fortunately, it won't be long till that, there is a rumor about revision releasing in 2019, hopefully it will be an NS lite, it makes more sense... 

You do realize that last year Splatoon 2 was released and supply issues were much weaker in Japan than in the West due to Nintendo cashing in on Japan's Splatoon craze? Add to this that Summer was pretty bare this year, thus not having had much to boost the sales.

Believe me, the only problem the Switch had was a lack of games during Summer which was pretty packed last year. The fact that the Switch only barely fell behind last year despite Splatoon 2 shows that the baseline is becoming high enough to compete with 2017 sales (meaning selling 3M+) without many sales spikes. Add to this that next year won't be anywhere as bare as this year with high profile titles both from Nintendo and big publishers like NSMBUDx, YW4, Yoshi, Fire Emblem, Team Sonic Racing, Crash Team racing, Sword Art Online, Mortal Kombat 11, a flurry of Final Fantasy and Resident Evil games, Daemon X Machina, Luigi's Mansion 3 and of course both Pokemon and Animal Crossing, 2019 is already packed full of games for the Switch in Japan.

I said before that I don't think Switch next year will beat 3DS 2013 in Japan. However, I believe Switch won't be far off the mark imo. According to VGChartz, 3DS sold 5M in Japan in 2013, and I believe the Switch will achieve 4.5M next year, which is much more than the console did this or last year. In 2014, 3DS however sold only 3M anymore due to having spent most of it's pricecutting potential early on. While Switch might sell less than 2019 (We'll have to see what happens until then I guess), I firmly believe it will sell more than those 3M of the 3DS, and also outsell the old handheld each following year, and total sales should end up in a similar ballpark