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

[DonFerrari]

 

WhatATimeToBeAlive said:

DonFerrari said:

The apology isn't because of they thinking it would sell 20M and he saying 17M. But because people were saying he was a troll and hater for saying it would do 17M or that it wouldn't outsell PS4 in this year sales.

How many of these Nintendo fans were called haters and trolls?

All hell will freeze... but perhaps we can help ourselves and say the slightly short would be shipping 19M and then Patcher being still wrong. But he gave us a scare this time.

Pachter's prediction was 16-17 million. That "slightly short" is just misleading.

People have different understanding on words meaning. Perhaps form him 15% is slightly =p

zorg1000 said:

WhatATimeToBeAlive said:

Are you talking about me, since I haven't ever made any prediction about Switch sales. I just found it funny that even though Pachter gets so much hate, this time it looks like he is the one who is going to be right.

Why are you ignoring that he originally said 8 million then 13 million before finally getting "right" with 16-17 million?

Well, should we ignore Nintendo being wrong 3 times when forecasting and keeping forecast of 20M them?

colafitte said:

 

zorg1000 said:

 

Ya so it's probably slightly overtracked but good tracking from Vgchartz, being off by a few 100k ain't bad at all.

I'm at the ER now, I had surgery on this knee last summer to repair a torn meniscus, I'm guessing it got retorn.

Uff, get better soon then.

As for VGC. VGC has being doing great this gen compared to previous ones. But if Switch is indeed at least 500K overtracked this need an adjustment. For 100k, 200k, or 300k i won't say anything but if it is something like 600k or 700k for example, VGC should adjust to what ZhugeEX said like when he gave us numbers for XBO a few days ago.

We can say VGC have been doing great last couple years, but not whole of this gen.

If you just looked at the total number error then sure it would seem smaller error. But for the first 2 years VGC were around 1M wrong each quarter for PS4 (probably basing their tracking on PS3).