siebensus4 on 30 July 2019
| colafitte said: The impression i have with Switch after these numbers is mixed. It's obvious 1st party games sales and US, EU and JP hardware sales have been very strong, but Nintendo still has work to do in other areas, because if Switch has sold 210M games and MK 8 DX, SMO, SSBU, ZBOTW, PKLG, SP2, SMP, NSMBUD, 1-2S, and MTenA sum already almost 100M of those sales, that means the rest of the games (mostly 3rd party games) are not selling that well.... I presume is part of having such a strong 1st party lineup, it eats everything else i guess.... And 2'1M shipped this quarter and 18M projected for the total FY is lower than i expected, although is on par of what initially did at the start of the year. I guess we have been distracted by the lack of complete information about worldwide sales and we made too much fuzz about US, JP and some european countries sales... Despite all of this, if Switch ships 18M this FY it would be a phenomenal year and is still on pace to be between 3DS and Wii numbers in the end. |
With new hardware (Switch Lite) and Pokemon Sword/Shild on the horizon it is probable to push hardware sales to 20M. Mario Maker 2 also pushed some hardware and it seems that hardware is not going below 200K weekly worlwide for the rest of the year.
There are many 3rd party developers that said that they sold more on Switch within one week than on PS4/PC/XBox combined lifetime. If you look at the Top 30 Nintendo eShop charts you always see many 3rd party games, even in the top 10 or top 3. So no worries.
