Nintendo Switch in France: 3.3m sold LTD, 1.25m in 2019 + more

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Supermario28 said:

Philippe Lavoué, director of Nintendo France, gave us somme information about Switch sales in 2019 and LTD

Highlights:

Switch sold 3.3m in 2019 (3m were expected for 31st of december 2019)

Switch sold 1.25m in 2019 (1.1 in 2018, 911k in 2017). Most sold console in the country in 2019

Switch lite: no numbers but it's in 3rd place behing PS4 and in front on Xbox1

Original Switch sold much more than Lite during the holidays

30% of users are women before the launch of animal crossing

One out of 2 physical games sold is a Nintendo game in 2019 (one out of 4 in 2018)

Games in 2019:

Pokemon SW/SH: 650k

MK8DX: 502k

Luigi's Mansion 3: 392k

Ring fit Adventure: 120k (with stock issues in all the country)

They'll advertise the game again in february once it's back in stocks. They hope it'll become a long seller

Source:

https://www.lefigaro.fr/medias/nintendo-a-vendu-3-3-millions-de-consoles-switch-en-france-20200109?utm_source=app&utm_medium=sms&utm_campaign=fr.playsoft.lefigarov3

EDIT:

4.9% of french population has a Switch which represents 10% of housholds

+40% increase in games sales

10 Switch games in the top 20 in 2019:

2nd: FIFA20

4th:NSMBUDX

5th: Luigi's Mansion 3

6th: Pokemon SW/SH

7th:Super Mario Party

10th: Link's awakening

11th:SSBU

12th: Ring Fit Adventure

13th: Super Mario Maker 2

17th: Super Mario Odyssey

They mention Minecraft an MK8DX being in the top 20 as well, which is weird because it would make 12 games in the top (13 in you count pokemon separately)

I don't really understand how Pokemon SW/SH is 6th (maybe counted separately?)

I'm not 100% sure Fifa20 is in second place either, but that's what they say in the news with the fact that it sold more on Switch than it did on Xbox1

Where did you got the additional information? I couldn't find them in the original source. Maybe that got deleted in the meanwhile (article got updated 45 minutes ago)

bolded: I read the article and could only see a mention of 8 out of the top 10 being Switch games. Since the Switch already covers 6 out of 10 in your list, then Minecraft and MK8D would probably be on some of the free spots (1,3,8,9). Considering Pokemon SwoSh and MK8D sales are mentioned and Pokemon is on 6, then MK8D would probably be either on 8 or 9.

On the other Hand, LM3 is on 5 but sold only about half what Pokemon sold, so not sure if I can trust that chart much. The article says that numbers for the french market will get published in the coming weeks, so I'm fairly sure the top 20 you have there is not the yearly Switch game sales, but possibly the weekly ones.

Last edited by Bofferbrauer2 - on 09 January 2020