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Agente42 on 26 August 2020
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Shadow1980 said:
noshten said:

It's actually pretty easy to prove:

If people were buying a Switch for a different reason you'd probably see it higher than Animal Crossing. 

Also regarding your opinion on Switch demand slowing down.. you do realize the retail price is $299 and it's being resold from anywhere between $344.99 to $400... yeah that's demand not being met by Nintendo. 

Finally, Animal Crossing hasn't even had its first major holiday. Like I said all your doomsaying is just what we've been hearing from uninformed people about the Switch and it's demand since it launched.. overall it's just wishful thinking and I would recommend you start to use some critical thinking instead. 

Actually, Amazon ranks don't prove a thing. For example, by your rationale, FF7 Remake was the primary driver for PS4 sales in April since it was the #1 game. And besides, popular Nintendo games tend to be perennial best-sellers on Amazon (and the NPD charts, for that matter; MK8D, BotW, Smash, and NSMBUD all made the Top 20 last month). Just because a game manages to stick around in the best-sellers charts doesn't mean it's still moving any significant amount of hardware. We already know from the past 20 years at least of NPD sales data that an individual game does not produce any increases in hardware sales lasting any more than about a month or two after release. Also, numbered rankings are not measures of absolute sales volume. You never know how many copies separate the #2 game of the month from the #3 game of the month unless you have the actual sales figures.

Oh, and if you're expecting AC to still keep moving substantial amounts of hardware this holiday, you're expecting something that has literally never happened, ever. Again, it's already been established that major system-selling software never produces such long-term gains in hardware sales. The odds that AC is still pushing this amount of hardware by itself five months after launch is beyond unprecedented, and therefore highly unlikely. The odds that it will continue doing so out to December is nil.

First, your counterpoint is weak. Switch is not software, its a tangible only hardware. 50% of sales is not coming to digital distribution. Amazon for hardware is a good metric, for hardware sales. Well, look for a big retailer as well.

1) Wallmart

Scalper worlds

2) Target

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