Global Hardware 16 November 2019

[Jumpin]

trunkswd said:

Amnesia said:

With every last adjustments considered here, the Switch has this situation now for Q3 :

If the same pace could keep going until Dec 31th, the Q3 would have a total of ~13,9 millions, which could have been possible with Animal crossing fitting the gap in December. This makes me wonder if they have not decided to extend the momentum by delaying AC just to avoid a too huge spike in FY2020 Q3 and remain with nothing else for the next 6-9 months.

The gap between 2018 and 2019 will shrink for week ending November 23 due to Black Friday being a week later this year. AC coming out in 2020 helps spread out the heavy hitters for the Switch. 

The primary reason I’d say Nintendo put it there was not to spread it out from Pokemon, but rather Animal Crossing: New Horizons, right now, looks like it’s more meant to be the one thing in the giant gap of the first half of 2020 since it is coming out at the end of March. They might get Xenoblade Chronicles DE in that time period to help fill it in, though. Hopefully another surprise or two pop up.