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WoodenPints on 22 February 2017
Barkley said:

Let's compare it to the 3DS sales in france, as of April 2016:

France: 4 Million
Globally: 58.5 Million

So of all 3ds systems sold 6.83% were sold in France.

Now if we assume that France will make up a similar chunk of the Switch market... that would mean to reach 0.8m in France this year it would sell 11.7m this year Globally.

Switch First Year: 11.7m

3DS First Year: 11.4m

It's not as crazy as I expected, France does make up a fair amount of Nintendo's market.

Nice post! As you said once it's broken down like you have done it is quite a reasonable prediction as when I read the thread title I though na that's to much to ask for sure, but I think 9-10m WW is more likely for thw Switch but with a Pokemon holiday release or if it just really catches momentum 11-12m isn't out of the window.



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tak13 on 22 February 2017
bonzobanana said:
Is France a big market for Nintendo. Do they really go for portables?

Not exactly an unbiased source though but brilliant if it achieves that.

Looks like pre-orders are still available for launch day on amazon france.

https://translate.google.gr/translate?hl=el&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lemonde.fr%2Fpixels%2Farticle%2F2017%2F02%2F02%2Fen-2016-nintento-a-vendu-4-3-millions-de-jeux-en-france_5073558_4408996.html

 

Well they dominating software sales there every year! They sold 4.3m software units in 2016 in France, 3.3m on 3ds, and 1.1m on the killed wii u.

 

3DS has sold 4.7m as of 2016, expected to sell another 700k units in 2017, same as last year and Pokemon S/M another 450k added to the 806k units sold at retail in 2016, approaching the top selling 3ds game in France, MK7. The unloved wii u is close to 1 million, it was outselling xbox one till 2015 there, mario kart 8  has sold more than 500k.


 For instance YW has sold 222k at retail in France out of the 700k sold ( including digital ) in Europe ( only 50-70k in the UK )... YW was 15th best selling game in France for 2016!

That's enough proof for how much big France is for Nintendo.



Faelco on 22 February 2017
VGPolyglot said:
Faelco said:

Yeah... It just sounds like a classic "We're great, everything's great" PR release. Gamekult readers are laughing and complaining at the journalist for not asking anything "touchy" and being really really nice with the guy (which is unusual for GK). But the interview was released at the same time as an article announcing "We just received the Switch, review coming soon!", so it could be a deal with Nintendo for that.. 

Do you have a link the the interview in French?

Yep, right here:

http://www.gamekult.com/actu/nintendo-france-on-change-de-dimension-A173593.html

Oh, I missed the "ARMS has maybe Smash Bros potential" quote :D



VGPolyglot on 22 February 2017
Faelco said:
VGPolyglot said:

Do you have a link the the interview in French?

Yep, right here:

http://www.gamekult.com/actu/nintendo-france-on-change-de-dimension-A173593.html

Merci beaucoup!



Random_Matt on 22 February 2017

Should lay off the shrooms.



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fedfed on 22 February 2017

go Switch - you can make it!



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AZWification on 22 February 2017

Nintendo better not get too carried away..



                
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zorg1000 on 22 February 2017

Thats roughly what 3DS has averaged each year in France so it is possible.



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Faelco on 22 February 2017
zorg1000 said:
Thats roughly what 3DS has averaged each year in France so it is possible.

Yeah, but they still plan to sell the same number of 3DS too. I don't know how they plan to still sell the same number of 3DS, and push people to buy just as much Switches on top of that.



Normchacho on 22 February 2017

Nintendo's expectations for the Switch are way too high.



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