The Road to 160m+ for Nintendo Switch

[XtremeBG]

firebush03 said:

(that’s a bit of a stretch lol. Switch is down hard in May for the sale reason PS5 was down hard on Jan/Feb. Outside of May, the NSW has actually held up pretty well. It was keeping pace with 2023 in Japan up until April, for instance, but lost some steam likely in response to Nintendo’s announcement of the successor coming soon. Similarly, only saw 20-30% YoY drops in America. Switch is on-track — regardless of price cuts and all — to still comfortably hit 10mil for the current fiscal year. It’s not a stretch to speculate that momentum will remain strong going into a Q2/Q3 where an original new Zelda is releasing.)

Reason or not, it's a fact. And I expect to be a fact for the incoming months as well. As I checked now, it was down on both of these territories from start of the year not just now, it simply wasn't as bad (and don't count only May, April was the first big drop month, so two months in a row, maybe becomes a pattern eh ?) An really when you see the last two months in Europe were 140 and 158k. So Switch is maintaining level of ~150K monthly there. June 2023 was 330k. You really expect June to not be drop as well ? America's April was 125k before that it was 200k so even with some boost somehow, even if it does 150k for may in US, in 2023 it was 450k, so massively down .. June was 360K, again no way Switch is making even 200k let alone more in May or June. So it's again big drop. Then till October the months are 250 or 220k but with drop to 125k in April I really don't believe Switch will return to 200k levels. So even 150K would be a big drop. And as I said earlier, some small titles not triple A big as TOTK for example, will do little to no boost. We will find out soon enough of course.

Last edited by XtremeBG - on 04 July 2024