Nintendo FY Q3 Results (Switch 32.3m LT, Smash Bros 12m, Pokemon 10m..)

[colafitte]

zorg1000 said:

colafitte said:

For Wii in 2009 i see 65'0M sold and 67'45M so around another 2'5M difference. DS in 2006-2009 was a phomenon like no other, so comparing Swith to DS on those years is unfair. That thing sold like anything seen before those years. As for 3DS...only 2011 had more than 8M shipped in that quarter (and i have to rememeber you, that Switch did shipped not only more than 8, but more than 9M) and was not the first holiday after the price cut for 3DS so a lot of people waited to buy the handheld after that?

So PS4 is an outlier, DS was a phenom and 3DS had a price cut........sounds like excuses.

Indeed they sound, i must admit. But that year for PS4 is the only one in PS4 history, DS was in fact a phenom like no other, especially during holiday season and 3DS sold a lot better after that price cut in August 2011 (and like PS4 in 2015 it was their only year where everything we say adds up).

That's why from data and experience, i think Switch performance in 2018 looks more like Wii 2009 and 2010 than those other ones. Or like PS4 last 2 years where they shipped more than 9M and there was more than 3M on shelves. I have more situations in my favor than yours. But ey, i could be wrong, i'm just chosing between options based only in a "feeling" i have. I can't prove nor use evidential data. I'm not saying is impossible. I just said i doubt it.

The shame is, that if Nintendo doesn't decide to announce sell through numbers worldwide we will never know....