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Agente42 on 20 March 2021
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Shadow1980 said:
brute said:

If you are using Famitsu sell through then the numbers are missing Nintendo online sales. Famitsu doesnt track those.

Just look at 3ds shipped vs sell through. And we know there is no chance 3ds has that many in Japan shelves.

Additionally, I dont have the numbers in front of me but Switch is performing better in Canada relative to % of Americas.

Id put Switch US sales at around 85% of Americas, and not 90%.

Plus Ninty sell through has always been proven inaccurate as Nintendo usually on references sales for NA, EU and Japan. Theyve even mentioned this in their reports.

But you probably already knew all this being the sales numbers person that you are.

Upon further investigation, it appears that no Japanese sales tracker accounts for sales from the My Nintendo Store, which has been a thing since 2016. Still, even before that existed, sell-through figures have long been less than shipped figures.

For example, according to both Media Create and Famitsu, at the end of 2013 right at the end of its big boom years the 3DS has sold a bit under 14.7M LTD. Nintendo's shipped figure was 15.76M, so there were about 1.1M units unsold units in Japan alone. Combined U.S.+Canada sales at the end of 2013 was at 12.4M (11.49M U.S. according to NPD, 920k Canada according to CESA). Assuming that they make up 95% of the "Americas" region (and it's probably more than that), that gives us ~13M for the whole region. Total shipments to the region at that time? 14.36M. That means probably 1.4M were unsold. Add in Japan, that brings to the total to about 2.5M. Add in Europe & RoW, and that figure probably rises to ~3.5M.

Either all the trackers in the world are significantly undertracking everything and even Sony & Nintendo are wrong about their own sell-through figures, in which case reported sell-through is always less than actual sell-through regardless of the region or who's doing the tracking, or there's always a lot of unsold hardware leftover at the end of the year.

like i said, famitsu don't track Nintendo store. You can go in resetera and the Chris1964 or anyone there said the same thing to you.  The shipped is almost the same of the sold units because until now have supply issues in Japan.