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Forums - Sales Discussion - Japan Sales- Switch Year 1 vs 3DS and Wii U

Miyamotoo on 23 November 2017
Bofferbrauer2 said:
Damn, Switch is really keeping up quite well with the 3DS. At this rate it could even get close to Wii U LT sales in Japan this year alone.

Close!? There are good chances (depending from stocks) that Switch will pass Wii U LT numbers at end of this year.

Switch is currently at 2.25m while Wii U LT numbers in Japan are 3.3m, and we have 6 more weeks for sales.



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Bofferbrauer2 on 23 November 2017
Miyamotoo said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:
Damn, Switch is really keeping up quite well with the 3DS. At this rate it could even get close to Wii U LT sales in Japan this year alone.

Close!? There are good chances (depending from stocks) that Switch will pass Wii U LT numbers at end of this year.

Switch is currently at 2.25m while Wii U LT numbers in Japan are 3.3m, and we have 6 more weeks for sales.

Thought Wii U was a bit higher than that. yeah, it will most probably blow right past this year unless stock constrains don't allow for it.



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takoyaki7 on 23 November 2017

Perhaps switch may catch up with WiiU LT sales by March next year.

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Miyamotoo on 23 November 2017
takoyaki7 said:

Perhaps switch may catch up with WiiU LT sales by March next year.

 

 

Buy March 2018. Switch sales will way ahead of WiiU LT numbers, there are good chances (depending from stocks) that Switch will pass Wii U LT numbers at end of this year.

Switch is currently at 2.25m while Wii U LT numbers in Japan are 3.3m, and we have 6 more weeks for sales.

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konnichiwa on 23 November 2017
Miyamotoo said:
takoyaki7 said:

Perhaps switch may catch up with WiiU LT sales by March next year.

 

 

Buy March 2018. Switch sales will way ahead of WiiU LT numbers, there are good chances (depending from stocks) that Switch will pass Wii U LT numbers at end of this year.

Switch is currently at 2.25m while Wii U LT numbers in Japan are 3.3m, and we have 6 more weeks for sales.

It confuses me especially because you wrote it twice.  You are saying it is going to sell +160K each week in the last weeks?






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zorg1000 on 23 November 2017
konnichiwa said:
Miyamotoo said:

 

Buy March 2018. Switch sales will way ahead of WiiU LT numbers, there are good chances (depending from stocks) that Switch will pass Wii U LT numbers at end of this year.

Switch is currently at 2.25m while Wii U LT numbers in Japan are 3.3m, and we have 6 more weeks for sales.

It confuses me especially because you wrote it twice.  You are saying it is going to sell +160K each week in the last weeks?

Yes.

Look at 3DS sales in the last 6 weeks of 2011, it sold over 1.7 million

Switch likely wont match that, but it could easily do the 1.1 million needed to pass Wii U.



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konnichiwa on 23 November 2017
zorg1000 said:
konnichiwa said:

It confuses me especially because you wrote it twice.  You are saying it is going to sell +160K each week in the last weeks?

Yes.

Look at 3DS sales in the last 6 weeks of 2011, it sold over 1.7 million

Switch likely wont match that, but it could easily do the 1.1 million needed to pass Wii U.

I believe they can but Nintendo almost never had the stock to surpass 100K in sales except for once with SMO and now they will have 6 weeks in a row while the West is also asking for more stock?






Miyamotoo on 23 November 2017
konnichiwa said:
zorg1000 said:

Yes.

Look at 3DS sales in the last 6 weeks of 2011, it sold over 1.7 million

Switch likely wont match that, but it could easily do the 1.1 million needed to pass Wii U.

I believe they can but Nintendo almost never had the stock to surpass 100K in sales except for once with SMO and now they will have 6 weeks in a row while the West is also asking for more stock?

Of Course, with next week sales we entering holiday season and Nintendo definitely will prepare and ship much more units for holiday season compared to previous weeks. Nintendo recently said they increased production and they will start shipping much more units, and their plan is to ship around 7m Switch units during Q4 and of course most of that will go through holiday season.



zorg1000 on 23 November 2017
konnichiwa said:
zorg1000 said:

Yes.

Look at 3DS sales in the last 6 weeks of 2011, it sold over 1.7 million

Switch likely wont match that, but it could easily do the 1.1 million needed to pass Wii U.

I believe they can but Nintendo almost never had the stock to surpass 100K in sales except for once with SMO and now they will have 6 weeks in a row while the West is also asking for more stock?

Look at their shipment forcast for the fiscal year, they expect to ship over 9 million between from Oct-Mar. Thats likely 6-7 million in Oct-Dec & 2-3 million in Jan-March.

Japan so far accounts for about 25% of shipments so 1.5m+ this quarter sounds about right.




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konnichiwa on 23 November 2017
Miyamotoo said:
konnichiwa said:

I believe they can but Nintendo almost never had the stock to surpass 100K in sales except for once with SMO and now they will have 6 weeks in a row while the West is also asking for more stock?

Of Course, with next week sales we entering holiday season and Nintendo definitely will prepare and ship much more units for holiday season compared to previous weeks. Nintendo recently said they increased production and they will start shipping much more units, and their plan is to ship around 7m Switch units during Q4 and of course most of that will go through holiday season.

Well that's the thing, Japan holiday season isn't like the West.  End december/january is popular for holiday releases and the famous winter sale that you may compare like ours (end november/December) That's why I expect them to send more to the West (and I guess now also a shipment to Korea) having 100K stock available weekly till end december should be an achievement.