Global Hardware 24 August 2019

[The_Liquid_Laser]

zorg1000 said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

Doesn't the bump start next week?  I'm just basing that off the fact that Japan is only showing 30k in Switch sales.

Yes the Japan bump is next week, what I'm saying is that I dont understand why they arent showing any bump in America/Europe which got the upgraded model earlier.

America got it in early Aug, Europe in mid Aug and Japan in late Aug.

I was thinking that the Japanese bump was due to stores being in short supply a couple of weeks before the new model was released.  Basically they phased out one model and in the transition stores were in short supply.  That is why we saw a decrease in Switch sales in Japan for a couple of weeks before the bump.  

Did North America and Europe have any similar decrease before the new hardware was released?  I wouldn't think the new hardware, by itself, would increase sales, since Nintendo hasn't really been marketing the new hardware.  All the marketing is really focused on the Switch Lite instead.