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javi741 5 days ago
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XtremeBG said:
javi741 said:

Guys did the NPD sales numbers for last year November 2023 include the sales numbers on Black Friday? Because if it didn't that would make sense why the Switch is essentially flat compared to last year despite being older since this year would've included the critical Black Friday sales that last year's didn't have.

I remember November 2023's NPD being a notoriously big drop over 40% for the Switch. That's why I'm wondering about that.

Also it really looks like Xbox is dying, even with the Xbox One Microsoft used to be neck & neck with the PS4 in U.S sales, but now it seems like PS is dominating the only competitive region Xbox has which is the U.S. I know Microsoft doesn't prioritize hardware sales anymore, but damn they still matter if you want people to get into the Xbox Gamepass ecosystem especially more than PC.

It seems a lot of people have trouble with using the easy and nice hardware by date tool here on the website.

Last year November sales were till 26th of November, which included Black Friday and the weekend after that. Last year Switch was down massively, compared to 2022. Which is the same case now when comparing it to 2022. But comparing it to 2023 US sales, sales were flat. The pure difference in numbers is 17k for this November, however this November the data is till 30th of November, last year the data was till November 26th. So it's not really that up year on year. Yes it's 4 weeks again, but 4 days where the sales are stronger were left out of last year's data for November, and are here for this November. If it were till end of November sales would probably be a bit down. Of course the final result is still very good for Switch, but it's not really up year over year when you take that into account, and also the fact that the sale offers were bigger for the system compared to last year. Also Xbox is a lot weaker, this also contribute to some chunk of the sales going to the Switch (of course most of them goes to the PS5).

However I expect December to be down compared to last year, since it has been down all year but November. But that is not something bad of course, it's normal for 8th year old console. People are getting so hyped up, it says up year on year, that they forget to make the calculations, and react like it's 20% up year on year for the whole holiday. 17k is not up, 17k difference is flat. It's so negligible it can't be really counted as up year on year. It's essentially flat because of the biggest sale offers to date for the Switch and the difference in the tracking dates. December will be from 1st unlike from 26th November like last year. Last year Switch did 1.3M in US for December.

Thank you for the response. So while the Switch this November while slightly up due to having an extra 4 days, the demand is still slightly lower since it was barely up despite it having an extra 4 days. Plus the deals this November are helping a lot too, but that's naturally expected to have more deals in the latter part of a console's lifecycle so I won't really disregard it as unsustainable/fluke demand either.

Still very impressed with the Switch still near 2023's November's sales, demand barely seems to be going down even this late which is crazy.