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Forums - Nintendo - Year 1 - Week 52 - Global Switch Sales vs WiiU/XboxOne/3DS/PS4

TalonMan said:
Excellent charts!! I'm definitely ticking this one over into my buddy list... :)

...without my having to go back, comb through these posts, and/or do my own research (I'm lazy, after all!) - anybody know what was released on weeks 3 (nearly 1 million) and 6 (750k) for the PS4??? Those are fairly significant post-launch bumps, and I'm just curious what came out?

I'll assume, as far as week 3, it merely had something to do with hardware supply (they sold less than 100k the week before), so it seems to be either a massive dump of hardware or some weird alignment issue that's raising the total for that week.

The week 6 (and really, weeks 5 and 7, too as they seem to have a pre & post bump of their own) numbers are a bit more interesting and stand out, so I'm just wondering if anybody knows exactly what came out at that time and what was responsible for the increase in sales...?

Those aren't post-launch bumps, those are just standard holiday weeks. PS4 launched in the middle of November. Week 3 was Black Friday week, and Week 6 was the week before Christmas.



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TalonMan said:
StarDoor said:

Those aren't post-launch bumps, those are just standard holiday weeks. PS4 launched in the middle of November. Week 3 was Black Friday week, and Week 6 was the week before Christmas.

How about Week 15? Half million sold...?

That was the week during which PS4 launched in Japan: February 22nd, 2014.

EDIT: Damn. Sniped by Rol.



Slow week, but still barely managed to beat the PS4 that aligned week.

Next weeks should be bigger again, and with it the gap to the PS4 continues to melt slowly by slowly



Oh, I missed it before, but this week is the price-cut for 3DS (well, the week 25, not this). From now on 3DS is a serious contender. Will the gap now slowly melt away? This is exciting, PS4 and 3DS are now in full power compared. Now the real fight starts. Will be interesting to see how Switch can hold up.



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TalonMan said:
I'm actually fascinated by this chart (excuse me guys, for being late to the show!!!) - I always kind of assumed XBox wasn't doing all that great, but those numbers are ABYSMAL!!! They're only slightly better than the Wii U (which has AWFUL numbers, in and of itself) until week #42 - at which point they finally managed to break 100k (post launch). Yikes...

Xbox One's numbers look especially bad in this chart because it only shows the first 52 weeks. XOne's sales have always been much more lopsided in favor of the holidays thanks to Microsoft's firesales and bundles.

Only 39.4% of PS4 sales in 2014 happened in November and December, but 55.7% of Xbox One sales in 2014 happened in those two months.



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PlatformN. AmericaEuropeJapanGlobal
62,989 70,527 24,098 190,345
63,178 35,589 69,235 188,262
27,347 31,311 24,845 87,543
33,682 25,421 70 72,969
151 2,369 4,183 8,046
431 1,266 113 2,008
170 470 84 927
279 270 N/A

655

Another week is up and the gap with PS4 closes by ~50k.



guiduc said:
PlatformN. AmericaEuropeJapanGlobal
62,989 70,527 24,098 190,345
63,178 35,589 69,235 188,262
27,347 31,311 24,845 87,543
33,682 25,421 70 72,969
151 2,369 4,183 8,046
431 1,266 113 2,008
170 470 84 927
279 270 N/A

655

Another week is up and the gap with PS4 closes by ~50k.

While 3DS on the other side closes in by ~110K. This is still pricecut-boost for 3DS, after that it seems to be around 160K per week, which is Switch currently jumping around. This all looks like a great fight.



3DS-FC: 4511-1768-7903 (Mii-Name: Mnementh), Nintendo-Network-ID: Mnementh, Switch: SW-7706-3819-9381 (Mnementh)

my greatest games: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

10 years greatest game event!

bets: [peak year] [+], [1], [2], [3], [4]

Mnementh said:
guiduc said:
PlatformN. AmericaEuropeJapanGlobal
62,989 70,527 24,098 190,345
63,178 35,589 69,235 188,262
27,347 31,311 24,845 87,543
33,682 25,421 70 72,969
151 2,369 4,183 8,046
431 1,266 113 2,008
170 470 84 927
279 270 N/A

655

Another week is up and the gap with PS4 closes by ~50k.

While 3DS on the other side closes in by ~110K. This is still pricecut-boost for 3DS, after that it seems to be around 160K per week, which is Switch currently jumping around. This all looks like a great fight.

Yeah, in about 3 weeks 3DS and Switch should be head-to-head.



Updated OP

Switch hits 6 million sold



Green098 said:

Updated OP

Switch hits 6 million sold

Another milestone crossed! (Also retagging)



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