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FlashmanHarry on 25 February 2026
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tak13 said:
FlashmanHarry said:

One thing to take into account with the year on year drops is that, at the last calendar year there was roughly a difference of 2 million between shipped verses sold. Now that the Switch has been replaced that difference should be somewhere between 0.5m to 0.75m (it doesn't make sense that it's still 2m, that's probably close to a full years stock at this point). So if Nintendo reaches a shipped figure of 4m like they're expecting for the calendar year, then their real sales for the last year are probably going to be somewhere between 5m to 5.5m. (The fact that they had stock issues only a couple of weeks ago would also suggest that they're not holding onto as much inventory as before).

Hey, flash, the discrepancy is owing to imports from Japan. 

It's no coincidence that the cheap Japanese version of ns2 is region locked... 

1.7m difference between sold - shipped and indeed facing shortages lately, partially fixing them with restocking the "expensive" oled... 

Let's wait for the next FY forecast, if Nintendo expects 2.5m 1.5m drop from last years, it will exceed ps2.

156.22+2.5m= 158.77 only needing 1.4m then to attain it.

Suspense is growing.

It depends to the probable price hike of NS2 (and if they rush a Ns2 oled lite release)... 

Things I'll be keeping a close eye on this year will be:

what guidance, will they give for the next fiscal year and what will be the year on year drops for Switch after June. As then we will be comparing the Switch in a more like for like scenario. As every month after June will be comparing the Switch as the secondary console rather then like now where this time last year it was still nintendos primary console.