XtremeBG said:
Shtinamin_ said:
In the latest Nintendo earning report, https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2023/231107e.pdf , at page 9 there's a table labeled "Consolidated sales units, number of new titles, and sales units forecast" and the first section is regarding Hardware. At the 3rd column it has another label above it saying "Sales Units in Ten Thousands" and the 3rd column is labeled "Life-to-date Sept '23". Nintendo gives the total of 13,426. 132.46M sold. Nintendo labels them as sold. (Yes, Nintendo and all gaming companies label the shipped as sold and that because it is. Stores have already "bought" the consoles).
So we have 132.46M sold by the end of September according the the Nintendo 6 months Earnings Report. From September I added the VGChartz estimates from October (0.87 +132.46=133.33), November (1.66+133.33=134.99) and Japan's 2 weeks of December (171,831+134.99= 135.16M) to reach 135.16M.
VGChartz estimates are very accurate (example at the end of the September WW estimate post the total of sold matched Nintendo's reports, when aligned with Nintendo's June report). By the end of December VGChartz estimate will match Nintendo's earning report (aligned with September's report). |
We are working only with data from here - VGChartz. You can't just come out and say the sales are above 135M when they are under 133M with November. Those units are shipped you are mentioning about. They are already sold cuz Switch is more than 132.46M now. However what numbers you see here, those are the most accurate to date sold figures. So we are working with them. Don't jump through hoops just to higher the Switch sold numbers. The site makes adjustments when it has to and is displaying the most accurate numbers to date for sold not shipped. It's little bit under 133M now. That's it. Stop work with other sites and wrongly calculated data. It's so easy - just watch the numbers that are here for everything - region, worldwide, every type of console or whatever you want, and make calculations based on that. |
Yeah! How he use official sources and extrapolate from there! Especially when it disagrees with your point!
Jokes aside, his method is not a bad one to estimate current shipped numbers, assuming Nintendo is replacing like-with-like. It isn't perfect but there's no need to react like he's performed some taboo action.
