Japan Sales week 10 March 4-10 2019 (media create)

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zorg1000 said:

Nate4Drake said:

Yep; the 50% increase is a lot; games is not the reason, there is nothing new to play, but the old games can be enough reason to buy a Switch, this for sure; still the peak is odd unless Switch really became a cool trend even more year after year.   I can't find another reason.

I think this is the reason

October-Super Mario Party (over 1 million)

November-Pokemon Let's Go (over 1.5 million)

December-Super Smash Bros Ultimate (almost 3 million

January-New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe (500k)

 

The combination of these 4 big titles in a 4 month period has created strong momentum.

Pretty much how it always is. Big games lead to consistently strong weeks of sales.

The Vita never had a big game, but it still sold consistently low.

The PS4 had some big games,  so it has passed the Vita.

The Wii had a lot of big games and then fell flat, but even with that it likely means Wii > PS4 in Japan.

The Switch consistently has big games, so it easily surpasses PS4 soon, and will beat the Wii too.