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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Switch wins April NPD (over 280k)

KLAMarine on 17 May 2017
p0isonparadise said:
After 2 months using NPD figures:

Switch - 1,186,000+ (March/April)
Wii - 1,080,000 (November/December)
WiiU - 1,077,000 (November/December)
3DS - 590,000 (March/April)

Switch beat the Wii? Wow.



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Mandalore76 on 17 May 2017
Darwinianevolution said:
Great to hear it, although it was almost a certainty this would happen. It would be terrible if a new Mario Kart game couldn't move enough hardware to win an NPD.

Also, are the worldwide numbers reaching the 3m already?

Well, there was 1 person in the NPD prediction thread who had PS4 outselling Switch...



Pavolink on 17 May 2017

Nice. Good job.



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Lonely_Dolphin on 17 May 2017
Ariakon said:
Einsam_Delphin said:

Switch numbers don't factor into what I'm getting at. The 3DS being a far more desirable product than the Wii U could ever hope to be sold half as much in it's two months, that can only be attributed to releasing outside of holidays.

I get what you're saying, but the 3DS wasn't a desirable product at all until Nintendo hit it with that $80 (or $70, I can't quite remember which) price cut. At its original launch price of $250, a lot of people were calling it a bit of a launch flop. 

In general sure, hence the numbers it got, but compared to Wii U I'd say it was always inherently more desirable but I guess that's besides the point. Basically any system regardless of it's quality can have a good launch during the holidays, but to have a good launch outside of the holidays the system needs to actually be good.



LivingMetal on 17 May 2017

Nintendo staying relevant.



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Miyamotoo on 17 May 2017
Kai_Mao said:
Miyamotoo said:

Well problem with Wii U was they had to many stocks that didn't sell and they couldn't lower price later. On other hand Switch is selling better than they thought but increasing production requires time, I hope they will not have stock issues for Splatoon 2 launch (espacily in Japan).

They could try that air shipment method again and take another small loss. Though even that, I think, wouldnt be that wise to do since there's still demand and it doesn't appear to waver for now so the immediate need to ship in the air probably isn't necessary at the moment.

They could if they actually have units, it seems they shipping everything they have.



zorg1000 on 17 May 2017
p0isonparadise said:
After 2 months using NPD figures:

Switch - 1,186,000+ (March/April)
Wii - 1,080,000 (November/December)
WiiU - 1,077,000 (November/December)
3DS - 590,000 (March/April)

Wii U numbers are wrong, i think it was around 885k for Nov+Dec NPD



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Random_Matt on 17 May 2017

More concerned about May onwards. Thats all the heavy hitters released.



DialgaMarine on 17 May 2017
Vor said:
zorg1000 said:

April sales of Nintendo Switch and the Nintendo 3DS family of systems (more than 68,000 units sold) combined to make up almost half of all hardware sales across all dedicated video game systems.

So almost 50 % market share for Nintendo this month? It's nice to see some competition. Would be nice to see how it'll stack up against the PS4 later this year ( you can add the Vita although I didn't think it would made much a difference )

 Switch is going to get outsold by a huge margin From September and onward. There's nothing Nintendo can release that will compete with the massive third party games that the device is unfortunately not getting. 



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VGPolyglot on 17 May 2017
Ariakon said:

Wow, that stock is much lower than I expected. I thought the US would at least see a healthier boost over Japan. I was thinking more in line with 350-400k. If the stock situation doesn't improve much over the next few months, expect those Switches to be hard to find for quite a while. 

Yeah, they could have had quite a bit more sales by now if they could just improve stock!