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SMO and Mario Kart 8 have been the best two selling games (hourly) for almost all of December. Nintendo is going to report quite a quarter in January.



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I went through yearly best selling lists on Amazon. 2013 has only 1 WiiU game which is Super Mario 3D World at 57 (2012 has none). 2011 has 3 3DS games (Mario Kart, 3D Land and OOT at 36, 50 and 62 respectively).

And now 2017 has 8 games listed (#3 Super Mario Odyssey (#2 hourly), #6 Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (#3 hourly), #7 Breath of the Wild (#5 hourly), #21 Splatoon 2 (#19 hourly), #39 Mario x Rabbids (#68 hourly), #45 Arms (#51 hourly), #83 One Two Switch, #88 Pokken Tournament DX (#28 hourly)

There are also Skyrim, Just Dance 2018 and Xenoblade 2 that may enter the list by the end of the year as they have been consistent around top 30 in the hourly for a while (#30, 31 and 33 respectively).

Very nice first year software wise for Switch.



11 hours since last update.

HARDWARE:
#06 NS Neon (down 2)
#07 NS Grey (up 1)
#22 PS4 Fool's Edition (down 1)
#24 HTC VIVE (same)
#27 PS4 Pro (down 4)
#35 PS4 Star Wars (down 2)
#37 XB1X (down 1)
#43 N2DSXL T+B (up 1)
#47 SNES Classic (down 6)
#66 PSVR GTS (down 15)
#73 XB1 Forza (down 4)
#98 XB1 Minecraft (down 5)
#99 PSVR Skyrim (down 21)

SOFTWARE (Pre-orders Only)**:
Nothing at the moment

Does not affect this month: *
Software outside of the month only gets added if it's in the top 20: **


PS4: 3 in the top 100 / 3 in the top 50 / 0 in the top 20 / 0 in the top 10 / 0 in the top 5
XB1: 3 in the top 100 / 1 in the top 50 / 0 in the top 20 / 0 in the top 10 / 0 in the top 5
NIS:  2 in the top 100 / 2 in the top 50 / 2 in the top 20 / 2 in the top 10 / 0 in the top 5



This just show how much stronger December is for Nintendo compared to November.



Ariakon said:
TheBlackNaruto said:
Switch having a great month so far in Dec! Ps4 still holding strong and even the XB1 is staying consistent. I wonder how sales will show come NPD with this being the Holiday period and so many things messing with sales.....in particular the B&M sales.

I wonder this myself, as online sales trackers currently show the cheapest console (the xbox S) lagging behind all the others, with the much more expensive X leading the way for Xbox One. Granted, that would make sense in a normal sales month, at least after combing through the numbers throughout the year, but I find it hard to believe that Christmas shoppers, who are generally extremely price sensitive, would skip over the cheapest console, but who knows? Maybe the online trackers are more accurate than it would seem.

 

Also interesting will be seeing if Switch's online sales are matched by B & M this month. The system is selling quite well, but its rankings on Amazon have led me to overestimate how big its sales would actually be (I thought it would do about 400k in October and 1 million in November). Maybe December, with Nintendo's usual holiday push, will finally see the two a bit more in sync with each other. 

Yeah this is always an exciting time of the year for sales to say the least! So we will see how things turn out.



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Miyamotoo said:

This just show how much stronger December is for Nintendo compared to November.

I thought Dec was bigger than Nov for all of the big 3. I could be tripping though I am still not the greatest at keeping up with the sales lol.



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TheBlackNaruto said:
Miyamotoo said:

This just show how much stronger December is for Nintendo compared to November.

I thought Dec was bigger than Nov for all of the big 3. I could be tripping though I am still not the greatest at keeping up with the sales lol.

That goes most for Nintendo, beacuse they usualy dont have Black Friday deals like Sony and MS, and Nintendo always have bigger jump in sales in December compared to previous monts than Sony and MS have.



Miyamotoo said:
TheBlackNaruto said:

I thought Dec was bigger than Nov for all of the big 3. I could be tripping though I am still not the greatest at keeping up with the sales lol.

That goes most for Nintendo, beacuse they usualy dont have Black Friday deals like Sony and MS, and Nintendo always have bigger jump in sales in December compared to previous monts than Sony and MS have.

Ahhhhhh okay see I never really knew that about Nintendo. I knew December was bigger for all 3 just didn't know how much more it was for Nintendo. See I am learning!



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Miyamotoo said:

This just show how much stronger December is for Nintendo compared to November.

Another to note is switch first nov already higher than any other 3ds nov



4 hours since last update.

HARDWARE:
#05 NS Grey (up 2)
#07 NS Neon (down 1)
#22 PS4 Fool's Edition (same)
#26 PS4 Pro (up 1)
#29 PS4 Star Wars (up 6)
#34 SNES Classic (up 13)
#35 XB1X (up 2)
#37 N2DSXL T+B (up 6)
#65 XB1 Forza (up 8)
#75 PSVR GTS (down 9)
#82 Oculus Rift (re-entry)
#88 XB1 Minecraft (up 10)
#91 HTC VIVE (down 67)

SOFTWARE (Pre-orders Only)**:
Nothing at the moment

Does not affect this month: *
Software outside of the month only gets added if it's in the top 20: **


PS4: 3 in the top 100 / 3 in the top 50 / 0 in the top 20 / 0 in the top 10 / 0 in the top 5
XB1: 3 in the top 100 / 1 in the top 50 / 0 in the top 20 / 0 in the top 10 / 0 in the top 5
NIS:  2 in the top 100 / 2 in the top 50 / 2 in the top 20 / 2 in the top 10 / 1 in the top 5