Nintendo Quarterly Sales Update: Switch at 139.36m shipped

[Shadow1980]

Good sales for Mario Wonder. I'm playing through it right now and it's really good so far.

XtremeBG said:

Aren't the quarter reports normally include shipment numbers and not sold ?

Yep. Whenever "sales" are reported by any of the Big Three (not that MS shares shipment figures anymore), it's always in terms of units shipped, not units sold to end users. There's always going to be some stock left in supply channels at the end of any quarter. For example, at the end of any given calendar year from 2014 to 2019, the PS4 had anywhere from 1.8M to 3.7M units left in supply channels worldwide (the average was about 2.8M). If VGC's estimate of 136.7M units for the Switch is accurate, that would mean it had over 2.6M unsold units in the supply channels, which would not be all that unusual.