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Switch lifetime figures?

12-15 million 72 7.05%
 
15-20 million 58 5.68%
 
20-25 million 78 7.64%
 
25-30 million 119 11.66%
 
Way more than the above 694 67.97%
 
Total:1,021
Zod95 said:
GoOnKid said:

Check your facts.

First 10 weeks:

Wii Sports: 3.7M

Wii Play: 1.2M

Wii Fit: 1.4M

Nintendo Land: 1.6M

1-2-Switch: 0.5M

 

Lifetime:

Wii Sports: 82.5M

Wii Play: 28.9M

Wii Fit: 22.7M

Nintendo Land: 4.5M

1-2-Switch: ???

 

Do you know why Nintendo Land ended up selling just 3x more its initial 10 weeks while the others ended up selling 20x more? Because the others were a novelty and they took some time to educate the market. When Nintendo Land came the market was already educated. It turned out to be a flop, it didn't drive console's sales and Mario games ended up being the best selling WiiU games.

1-2-Switch is even worse. Not only it's selling very, very, VERY poorly (one third of Nintendo Land's horrible performance) but also it's not driving any console's sales. At least Nintendo Land was the best selling title at that time. 1-2-Switch is just another title, like Bomberman. Both will probably finish out of NS's top 10.

Bolded the games which had Bundles. Of course this pushed their numbers pretty high. What do you think Nintendoland would have sold without it's bundle? I doubt it could have beaten 1-2 Switch, heck, I don't think it would have reached 500k lifetime without the bundle, as not even casuals picked it up. Had they bundled 1-2 Switch, it would already be close to Nintendoland's total sales and would have easely outsold it 2-1 by now?

Which leaves us with 1-2 Switch and Wii Play, as they didn't got bundled with a console. But Wii Play came with a Wiimote for barely more than a Wiimote alone, so naturally many (including me) bought it for the Wiimote and enjoyed the fact that they had a partygame to play when everybody got drunk.

So all in all, a very unfair comparision, though I don't think you realised that before posting.



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Zod95 said:
RolStoppable said:

But what zorg said is true. The margin by which Switch is beating Wii U launch-aligned is growing at a rapid rate with each passing day. Three months after launch the Wii U was selling about 40k units per week. Switch is comfortably doing 160k units per week.

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Switch isn't following the Wii U's pattern at all. Switch only needed three months to beat the Wii U's entire peak year performance.

I only see 9 weeks of HW data for NS. How do you see 3 months?

With NPD and MC data is not difficult to make estimates for the following weeks. 

SpokenTruth said:
Zod, are you aware they've already upped their production run to 18 million for the fiscal year?

I bet he is not.



 

 

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RolStoppable said:

This means that I was and am so confident in Switch that I consider anything below 60m ridiculous.

Mathmatically anything below 45m doesn't make much sense after it posts a 10m+ first year.



RolStoppable said:
Barkley said:

Mathmatically anything below 45m doesn't make much sense after it posts a 10m+ first year.

Indeed, but you know from the "When will PS4 outsell Wii" thread that maths is a difficult subject.

you dont think PS4 will pass 100 million?



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greencactaur said:
I mean those games couldn't run on Switch even if they tried TBH. The Switch imo will take 2nd place ultimately.

No matter how weak you think the switch is, if ps3 can run gtav and mgsv then switch can run these if they wanted it to



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Volterra_90 said:
Zod95 said:

Make a prediction for NS's lifetime sales.

Right now I'd say 80M. Bold one. We'll see in a few years time though!

Why is it bold?



Prediction made in 14/01/2014 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 100M      XOne: 70M      WiiU: 25M

Prediction made in 01/04/2016 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 100M      XOne: 50M      WiiU: 18M

Prediction made in 15/04/2017 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 90M      XOne: 40M      WiiU: 15M      Switch: 20M

Prediction made in 24/03/2018 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 110M      XOne: 50M      WiiU: 14M      Switch: 65M

SpokenTruth said:
Zod, are you aware they've already upped their production run to 18 million for the fiscal year?

I didn't hear your prediction for NS's lifetime sales.



Prediction made in 14/01/2014 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 100M      XOne: 70M      WiiU: 25M

Prediction made in 01/04/2016 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 100M      XOne: 50M      WiiU: 18M

Prediction made in 15/04/2017 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 90M      XOne: 40M      WiiU: 15M      Switch: 20M

Prediction made in 24/03/2018 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 110M      XOne: 50M      WiiU: 14M      Switch: 65M

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Bolded the games which had Bundles. Of course this pushed their numbers pretty high. What do you think Nintendoland would have sold without it's bundle? I doubt it could have beaten 1-2 Switch, heck, I don't think it would have reached 500k lifetime without the bundle, as not even casuals picked it up. Had they bundled 1-2 Switch, it would already be close to Nintendoland's total sales and would have easely outsold it 2-1 by now?

Which leaves us with 1-2 Switch and Wii Play, as they didn't got bundled with a console. But Wii Play came with a Wiimote for barely more than a Wiimote alone, so naturally many (including me) bought it for the Wiimote and enjoyed the fact that they had a partygame to play when everybody got drunk.

So all in all, a very unfair comparision, though I don't think you realised that before posting.

I agree to some extent with what you're saying. But Nintendo Land was a disaster. 2 times that isn't pretty either. Moreover, I don't remember Wii Fit being bundled. If it ever was, it was not significant.



Prediction made in 14/01/2014 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 100M      XOne: 70M      WiiU: 25M

Prediction made in 01/04/2016 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 100M      XOne: 50M      WiiU: 18M

Prediction made in 15/04/2017 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 90M      XOne: 40M      WiiU: 15M      Switch: 20M

Prediction made in 24/03/2018 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 110M      XOne: 50M      WiiU: 14M      Switch: 65M

RolStoppable said:

I am extrapolating month 3 sales based on month 2 sales and the knowledge that Switch is still selling through its stock quickly. There's no good reason to assume that month 3 sales will be notably lower than month 2 sales. But even ignoring that. VGC has been showing weekly sales of ~200k after the launch month. Wii U had weekly sales of ~40k. That's a huge gap.

You're right about that. Maybe my prediction doesn't seem so realistic right now. But keep in mind that console sales tend to become more frontloaded as the generations pass by. I still think my prediction has a good chance to be close to reality.

 

RolStoppable said:

Your Wii U breakdown combines 2012 and 2013 for a period of 14 months that includes two holiday seasons. This skews the numbers and is not an accurate or honest representation of how Wii U performed.

13 months and that includes one and a half (or less) Christmas seasons. It skews the numbers a little bit but it's still far better than 2012 being 1 month.

 

RolStoppable said:

My prediction for Switch lifetime sales is more than 100m units. I am obviously factoring in that Switch is the successor to both the Wii U and 3DS and that's the most blatant mistake in your prediction. You are aware that your prediction will be very wrong if Switch is also replacing the 3DS.

Yes I am. I had to accept the risk. As you are accepting the opposite risk by assuming NS is replacing 3DS.

You're aware that you're predicting for NS less than a half of the 7th gen and little more than the 8th gen (worst gen in Nintendo's history), right?

 

RolStoppable said:

My signature contains the link to one of my threads, but I post it for convenience because many members have disabled signatures in their VGC settings.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=224719

The thread was created shortly after the Switch presentation in January and calls out all predictions of 50m or less. This means that I was and am so confident in Switch that I consider anything below 60m ridiculous.

Very interesting. I didn't have the time to read it yet but I've noticed there's a topic just for NS's lifetime sales predictions. The poll isn't actually well conceived because the higher numbers are naturally more spread. Anyway, I thought people were more optimistic about NS. It seems that I'm not that isolated.



Prediction made in 14/01/2014 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 100M      XOne: 70M      WiiU: 25M

Prediction made in 01/04/2016 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 100M      XOne: 50M      WiiU: 18M

Prediction made in 15/04/2017 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 90M      XOne: 40M      WiiU: 15M      Switch: 20M

Prediction made in 24/03/2018 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 110M      XOne: 50M      WiiU: 14M      Switch: 65M

SpokenTruth said:
Zod95 said:

I didn't hear your prediction for NS's lifetime sales.

Greater than 20 million.

Mine too. I guess we're on the same boat:

"Some people want Switch to fail so badly that they'll ignore data, facts and reality to keep to their agenda."

It's easy to criticize and attack others' predictions while we're incapable of producing our own, isn't it?



Prediction made in 14/01/2014 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 100M      XOne: 70M      WiiU: 25M

Prediction made in 01/04/2016 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 100M      XOne: 50M      WiiU: 18M

Prediction made in 15/04/2017 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 90M      XOne: 40M      WiiU: 15M      Switch: 20M

Prediction made in 24/03/2018 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 110M      XOne: 50M      WiiU: 14M      Switch: 65M