December NPD 2019

[Bofferbrauer2]

Great charts as ever, @Shadow1980 . But with one flawed conclusion:

"Again, unless the Switch gets a price cut and that price cut does a lot to boost sales, then no, I don't see a prolonged peak. In fact, if there is no price cut this year I think we could very well see total sales for the year be down by at least a few hundred thousand units."

Well, it looks like the Switch is outselling last year's numbers right now without any substantial releases or Smash boost. So for the 1H of this year, Switch will definitely be up compared to last year.

However, I can see where you're coming from with that conclusion, and with Nintendo staying quiet about this year's releases for so long, a pricecut (be it a real pricecut of making a pack-in title part of the normal base model) may be needed to keep the second half from dropping compared to last year. But without knowing what's coming both on hardware or software side, it's a bit hard to predict what will really happen.

Last edited by Bofferbrauer2 - on 11 February 2020