Famitsu Sales: Week 24, 2023 (Jun 05 - Jun 11)

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curl-6 said:

kazuyamishima said:

I’m the idea that the Switch is getting sent overseas from Japan considering the low value of the Yen, considering that other markets are going back to pre-Zelda TOTK launch numbers.

But that’s just me, or something else is happening.

I'm a bit skeptical of this; why would it happen now all of a sudden? If people really wanted a cheap Switch, they can get one quite easily without having to import from a foreign country.

I admit, what's happening now is highly irregular and doesn't seem to fit normal sales patterns, but I don't feel like this can explain it.

I am not aware of sales data from other markets that show a return to pre-Zelda numbers, because outside of Spain there are no weekly numbers. It would be quite the reach to extrapolate based on Spain alone.

Aside from this, Switch saw an increase of merely 16k units over previous weeks, that's just 20%. An upgrade to an OLED model - which is the dominant Switch SKU in the charts - didn't necessarily have to happen alongside the purchase of Tears of the Kingdom. A huge game like it might have just been the reason to renew interest in Switch as a whole for several thousand people, so they upgraded to an OLED model afterwards because they intend to play games beyond Zelda.

There's no reason to engage in wild speculation that adds variables outside of the Japanese market based on this single week we are looking at here. If sales drop back to ~85k next week, then this week was nothing more than an outlier.