Famitsu Sales: Week 44, 2022 (Oct 24 - Oct 30)

[Kakadu18]

Farsala said:

Kakadu18 said:

Nintendo Switch shipment in Japan in the July-September quarter were 1.01mil.
Famitsu has it from July 4th to October 2nd at 1.161.839 units. Way overtracked especially when also including the MyNintendostore sales that Famitsu doesn't track.
Nintendo's total shipment to Japan is 26.96mil, to which Famitsu is closer than Media Create.

It is not overtracking. Just leftover shipments being sold. Nintendo and retailers always kept a certain amount of supply in stores, but now they both have agreed that sales are slowing so smaller shipments are sent.

They wouldn't have over 200k units as leftover. Another thing when comparing total numbers from Famitsu and Nintendo is that based on Famitsu's numbers the MyNintendostore sales would be negative this last quarter.

This observation was made by @Hiska-kun on Installbase.

Also them sending smaller shipments on purpose doesn't make sense when they literally had stock issues with completely sold out stores. Nintendo says they have semiconductor shortages.