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CheddarPlease on 24 January 2025
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XtremeBG said:
CheddarPlease said:

The only major drop during the holiday this year was the US in December thanks to a lack of deals. Japan sales were up during this holiday quarter, Europe sales were also basically flat (-15% for the year despite being down significantly more during the non-holiday months), and even the US was flat or up during November due to Black Friday promotions. Even accounting for holiday overshipping last year (Nintendo should have shipped about 6.3m instead of 6.9m), this holiday's strong holds means that Switch shipments should come over 5.5m minimum unless Nintendo undershipped, probably close to 6m.

November + December:

WW: 4.4M from 5.3M (2023)

US: 1.4M from 1.85M (2023)

EU: 1.45M from 1.65M (2023)

JP: 750k from 730k (2023)

The " others " region is down as well, but it's more calculations to get the data.

So, the drop is everywhere even in the holidays, excluding Japan. It is isn't as big as expected and as it was through out the year, but it's there. It's not flat, it's down. Also keep in mind that the last week that is added to all regions is actually more of a 2025 week since it cover only 30 and 31st of December. Without it Japan will probably be flat or slightly behind, and all other regions will be further behind alongside the worldwide data.

According to your own figures JP + EUR sales are only down 7% combined, that is almost flat, US sales were also more or less flat in Oct and Nov, again, most of the deficit is coming from US December sales and "other" (which is basically a black box in terms of data), never mind the fact that Nintendo shipment totals have historically outpaced sold-through figures in the holiday quarter (6.9m shipped vs 5.3m sold through last holiday quarter)