Update: Pokemon Sword/Shield sells 2 million in first 3 days in Japan, doubles Switch hardware to 180k

[Shiken]

Barkley said:

Shiken said:
Digital Sales on Switch are actually even higher than the other consoles due to ease of portability. If these are physical only numbers without Nintendo store and amazon reports, I think it is safe to say sales are up there with other mainline games.

Uh... no Switch digital sales are much lower than PS4/XBO. https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2019/191031_3e.pdf

Nintendo's Revenue breakdown for software last fiscal year:

Retail Games - 75.2%
Digital Versions of Retail Games - 16.8%
Download Only Titles, Add-On Content & Subscriptions - 8%

If you take out the 8% from Download Only, Add-On's and Online Subscriptions it works out that 18.2% of retail/packaged software revenue comes from digital.

While last fiscal year the "PS4 full game software digital download ratio" was 37%.

https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/er/pdf/18q4_supplement.pdf

In terms of revenue Nintendo reported 118.8 Billion yen in digital revenue, PlayStation reported 1102 Billion, almost 10 times as much digital revenue.

Thank you for correcting me, I was going off of what I personally have seen.  I will keep this data in mind.

However if you take 16.8% of Pokemon physical sales and add it to retail numbers, you get 2.18 mil with that alone.  Now this is by no means an exact number, but a VERY  ROUGH guestimate based on the facts you provided.

Add in the current unlnowns from Amazon and Nintendo stores, and my point still stands.  So until we have all the facts, it might be best to keep the downplay to a minimum is all I am saying.

Last edited by Shiken - on 20 November 2019