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Forums - Sales Discussion - Global Hardware 7 December 2019 - Cyber Monday Week

Amnesia said:
siebensus4 said:
Wow, Switch did 1.8M last week. If I'm right that's more than Wii has done within one week (1.4M). Is there any other way than "Tools > Hardware by Date" to check last weeks hardware numbers? Are there any plans to update "Charts > Weekly > Global"? I know that software is the reason for not updating it. But anyway, hardware could be updated. Sorry for off-topic.

But this represents still a weak performance compared to the 3 millions that Wii and DS sold at the same moment in 2008's black friday.

I know we can't really compare because Wii and DS was two different machine with two different line up, but still we can say that the Switch family is nowhere close to replicate the performance of 10 years ago.

There it is. We're back to the old "if it doesn't sell as well as x system + y system combined, it's not impressive", except now that it's clear it'll beat Wii U + 3DS, the goalposts have been moved to Wii + DS.



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A week late, but it seems in Black Friday week in Spain, PS4 was the best selling console with almost 80k units (it looks PS4 sold better in Spain than in UK that week...huh), followed by Switch with almost 55k and XBO selling around 14k. I think i remember reading somewhere people saying Switch sold around 70k and PS4 around 35k or something like that and i was finding that reaaaaaaly weird. Now, this makes more sense.

Source: https://vandal.elespanol.com/noticia/1350729931/fifa-20-y-ps4-fueron-los-grandes-triunfadores-del-black-friday-en-espana/



I'm new here. I was just wondering, it really appears that the Switch will sell 10+ million units this quarter, has a system ever done that before?



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scottslater said:
I'm new here. I was just wondering, it really appears that the Switch will sell 10+ million units this quarter, has a system ever done that before?

No idea. 

Welcome to the site non the less.  



trunkswd said:
scottslater said:
I'm new here. I was just wondering, it really appears that the Switch will sell 10+ million units this quarter, has a system ever done that before?

Welcome to VGChartz and the forums! The Nintendo DS did that during its peak years during the holiday quarters (October-December) in 2007 with 12.16 million, in 2008 with 13.38 million and in 2009 with 11.79 million. It just missed 10 million in 2010 (9.20 million). 

As for home consoles the Nintendo Wii did it during its peak holiday quarters in 2008 with 10.69 million and in 2009 with 11.66 million. It also sold 8.73 million in 2010.

So it's been done, just not in a while, lol.



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Personally, I love Sw/Sh.  I'm really curious about it's momentum in the global market seeing the Japanese week to week sales maintaining strong.  What can I say, I love the Switch.  After so many years of owning PS/Xbox and getting bored with the same formula those companies use (so many FPS/1 player linear story games) I forgot how good Nintendo was at making "fun" games.  The Switch is a truly remarkable game system and IMO has changed gaming forever, most just don't know it yet, lol.  I take our Switch with us everywhere so I can hook it up to TVs to play the various party games.  We got a Switch Lite because one Switch was proving not enough for the 4 of us (wife and 2 kids).  Once Nintendo figures out the online thing and with 3rd party developers having to acknowledge the Switch (for example Falcom even saying it is taking over the Western Market) watch out...

https://nintendosoup.com/falcom-gamers-in-the-west-are-moving-towards-nintendo-switch/

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trunkswd said:
GuyDuke said:
I can't believe how fast you are to publish new numbers. It's like numbers from 4 days ago... very impressed by your work, trunks. Thank you very much.

This is where the hardware figures were several years ago when ioi was on the ball updating them every week. He fell off in updating the numbers as they got further and further behind. The hope is with having the numbers up to date is that it will improve the number of views for the site. 

It really does feel great to see the numbers on the front page being those for the previous week. I know it was quite the task catching up since the numbers were so far behind and I do hope it'll help the site going forward!



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Yeah, the Switch is the first Nintendo console I've purchased for myself since the Nintendo 64 as well.  Was never much into handheld video games personally but we have bought a 3DS for my kids.  The reason I was never much into handheld is because I prefer a controller and TV setup.  The Switch is just a perfect system, it's nice to be able to play in bed, on the go, etc and then play it on my 65" TV when I have some free time in the evening.  I also like how easy it is to setup the Switch on a different TV.  The cartridge system they use has a very satisfying "click" feel to it that you just don't get with a CD. The Switch reinvigorated my love of playing video games!

EDIT: Actually, the Switch made me feel that Nintendo feeling again so I bought a Wii U (really underestimated system IMO) to "hack".  Having access to any NES/SNES/N64/GameCube/Wii/Wii U/handheld I want from one system is a great way to complement the Switch.  Not much into PC gaming anymore.

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trunkswd said:
scottslater said:

Yeah, the Switch is the first Nintendo console I've purchased for myself since the Nintendo 64 as well.  Was never much into handheld video games personally but we have bought a 3DS for my kids.  The reason I was never much into handheld is because I prefer a controller and TV setup.  The Switch is just a perfect system, it's nice to be able to play in bed, on the go, etc and then play it on my 65" TV when I have some free time in the evening.  I also like how easy it is to setup the Switch on a different TV.  The cartridge system they use has a very satisfying "click" feel to it that you just don't get with a CD. The Switch reinvigorated my love of playing video games!

EDIT: Actually, the Switch made me feel that Nintendo feeling again so I bought a Wii U (really underestimated system IMO) to "hack".  Having access to any NES/SNES/N64/GameCube/Wii/Wii U/handheld I want from one system is a great way to complement the Switch.  Not much into PC gaming anymore.

I am the same. I understand people enjoying handheld gaming, but I prefer playing games on a TV or PC. I've only played my Switch in handheld mode about 5-10% of the time. It is nice to have when on a long flight to help pass the time. 

Now is the first time I've owned all three main systems with the Switch, PS4 and Xbox One. I've previously had 2 systems in one generation, but never 3. 

Funny enough, I sold off all my other systems after owning the Switch for a year, lol.  We literally have not touched any other system the past year, which is crazy because usually we play a game for a couple days then it's back to streaming media (movies/TV shows).  The Switch is different, we still play Mario Kart which was the first game we had for it!



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scottslater said:
I'm new here. I was just wondering, it really appears that the Switch will sell 10+ million units this quarter, has a system ever done that before?

Welcome to VGChartz man, nice to meet ya. :)