Switch Breaks Nintendo Sales Records in Americas & Japanese Sales ~330k+

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gentii on 07 March 2017

where r the haters ? Amazing News for Nintendo

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Barkley on 07 March 2017

Hopefully we won't have to wait till NPD to get sales figures.

I was expecting around 2 million globally with the first two weeks of sales, thinking I may have to scale that expectation back a bit though.

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Lawlight on 07 March 2017

Not looking very good for Nintendo. Obviosuly we don't have numbers for the US to conpare to but selling less than the PS4, a console, in Japan points to the Switch selling even less than the 3DS.

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Intrinsic on 07 March 2017

Teeqoz said:
Console launches in general seem to have become more and more inflated over the years, hence why the PS4 and XBO had record smashing launches, and while the PS4 is selling pretty quickly, it's nowhere near the pace of the systems it launched above (like the PS2 and Wii), and the XBO is just doing meh. So imo, the launch doesn't mean much. Heck, just look at Japan, same thing going on there. The PS4 launched with twice as much as the PSP, but the PSP sold at least twice as much as the PS4 will lifetime.

I don't know why you woulkd say console launches are becoming inflated.... could it just be that there are more people willing to buy a aconsole at launch these days than say 10/20yrs ago? Does that mean its an inflated market or just simply that the market has changed?

And I don't know about the Wii (well I do but I don't wanna get into what made it what it was) but you do know that as far as the PS2 is concerned the PS4 is still currently outpacing it? The PS4 has sold through more consoles than the PS2 had shipped in the same number of months on the market.

And I honstly think its a ridiculous thing to do if you are gonna compare handhelds (PSP) to home consoles (PS4)....... yes they both play games, but they are totally different kinda markets and sell for very different reasons.

But I agree with you assessment that these "launches" doesn't mean much. I at least expect every console to sell through most of not all of its launch stock. Especially in the modern gaming market where they can use pre-orders to guage intrest.

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Lawlight on 07 March 2017

gentii said:
where r the haters ? Amazing News for Nintendo

Wait, how is this amazing news?

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Kirin_gaming on 07 March 2017

Soundwave said:

I just had to post this pic:

LOL, that's so sad :(

But as the saying goes. "if you can't handle the pain stay out of the game."

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kopstudent89 on 07 March 2017

Decent numbers for the Switch. Key is longevity now!

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Miyamotoo on 07 March 2017

Safiir said:

Miyamotoo said:
But but Switch will sell similar like Wii U! :D

Well it did sell similar to Wii U in Japan, soooo...not sure if you should be breaking out the champagne yet.

It did similar like Wii U at holiday season and actualy Switch was outsold at Japan and US, thats huge difference. In UK done double numbers than Wii U did at holiday season, and in US beat even what We done in holiday season. All thats combine is huge difrence compared to Wii U numbers for now.