Nintendo quarterly results (Switch 36.87 million)

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Oneeee-Chan!!! said:

Well, if you take a look at Japan, several countries in Europe and the US, then the PS4 is down by quite a bit in most regions by about 30%.

It's possible that US retailers have ordered the console en masse in prospect of the tariffs so they'll have a complete stock before this happens. With the new Switch models incoming, they couldn't do the same with Nintendo, giving them even more space to fill up with Playstations.

In fact, it might not be the tariffs on consoles only, but since there were a slew of tariffs that came into effect yesterday, there might have been something in those that could have negatively impacted the console market.

But all this is to be taken with a heavy grain of salt. I think we'll have a clearer picture during the next quarter results.

According to VGC, 13.1%.

http://www.vgchartz.com/article/439757/year-on-year-sales-amp-market-share-charts-july-20-2019/

That's all of the markets combined. Including others (which are probably up compared to last year) and all countries in Europe, while I just said some countries in Europe.

In the US and in Japan however, sales seem to be around 30% down. For instance, the PS4 sold almost 700k so far in Japan, but it did over 1M already by this point last year. In the US, PS4 sales are marketly down from last year according to NPD, at least until April (we didn't get any June results). I'll give you Shadow1980's charts for you to see:

Shadow1980 said:

Chart time!

The PS4 had its worst month yet, and the XBO had its second-worst month (though its worst month, May 2014, was when they announced a Kinect-less SKU for release in June, resulting in a much larger April-to-May drop that year). For YTD sales, the PS4 is down 32.9% YoY while the XBO is down 34.1%. While the Switch's sales have grown by a healthy 23.3% for the year so far, it wasn't enough to offset the losses from the PS4 & XBO, and so far console sales are down 15.7% from the Jan.-May period of last year.

See how that Dark Blue line at the end in every month from March to May was the lowest it ever reached in those months, and January and February it only managed to equal the lowest numbers of those months. The last chart says it all: 2018 was at over 1.5M at that point, while 2019 barely managed to get past the 1M mark.

It also seems to be down by a similar amount in some European countries, though Europe as a whole isn't down by that much.