March 4th 2017 Weekly Hardware Chart Update (Nintendo Switch Launch Numbers)

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Intrinsic on 13 April 2017

Kerotan said:
Decent launch for Switch.

Excellent regular week for ps4 too!

Yh, if we ignore the fact that that was the same week that HZD launched.

So basically, VGC is saying that not only did HZD not give any kinda boost to the PS4 numbers, the numbers actually dropped compared to the week before.

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zorg1000 on 13 April 2017

Barkley said:

zorg1000 said:

hmm? this site has PS4 & XBO each around 1.1 million first week.

1.1 Million in NA alone, not globally.

that doesnt really matter for first week sales.

PS4 wasnt going to magically sell 2+ million in the ending Nov 16 by being available globally, the 1.2 million or so units shipped would have simply been distributed throughout the world.

For example, something like 400-500k in NA/PAL each and 200-300k in Japan.

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The Switch sold 1.3m 'WW'? That's not really that good when you compare it to the launches of the XB1 and the PS4.

The console was soldout because Nintendo originally intended to ship only 2M units in the first month, it's hard to sell more units when there's no more available to purchase...

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betacon on 13 April 2017

Luke888 said:

GribbleGrunger said:
The Switch sold 1.3m 'WW'? That's not really that good when you compare it to the launches of the XB1 and the PS4.

The console was soldout because Nintendo originally intended to ship only 2M units in the first month, it's hard to sell more units when there's no more available to purchase...

No different than the PS4 which was sold out well into the new year.

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zorg1000 said:

Barkley said:

1.1 Million in NA alone, not globally.

that doesnt really matter for first week sales.

PS4 wasnt going to magically sell 2+ million in the ending Nov 16 by being available globally, the 1.2 million or so units shipped would have simply been distributed throughout the world.

For example, something like 400-500k in NA/PAL each and 200-300k in Japan.

How far apart did they launch? Like between NA/Europe/Japan etc? That would determine if the sales mattered or not.

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GribbleGrunger said:
The Switch sold 1.3m 'WW'? That's not really that good when you compare it to the launches of the XB1 and the PS4.

When the shipment for March is just about 2 millions, then these sales are incredible.And at march at that.

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Intrinsic said:

TheGamer_1995 said:

It actually sold mord than the Xbox One's launch week despite the Xbox One releasing during the Holiday season.

Errr... no it didn't.

GribbleGrunger said:

Really? Has anyone got the launch week numbers for both consoles? I know the PS4 sold 250k in the UK alone and for some reason I thought both consoles had sold well over the Switch. I guess I'm wrong but I'd like to see the figures none the less.

Xbox one sold 1.56M in its launch week. Also don't forget that that thing launched at $500 and without Japan.

Ha ha like Japan would make a huge difference :D

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TheBlackNaruto said:

zorg1000 said:

that doesnt really matter for first week sales.

PS4 wasnt going to magically sell 2+ million in the ending Nov 16 by being available globally, the 1.2 million or so units shipped would have simply been distributed throughout the world.

For example, something like 400-500k in NA/PAL each and 200-300k in Japan.

How far apart did they launch? Like between NA/Europe/Japan etc? That would determine if the sales mattered or not.

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