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VGPolyglot on 12 December 2017
StarDoor said:
VGPolyglot said:

The Wii had that much stock on shelves?

Er, no. I think you're misunderstanding something here. Wii launched in the middle of the fiscal quarter, and the end of its 52nd week was November 17th, 2007. It obviously hadn't shipped 20.13M as of November 17th...

September 30th, 2007: 12.43M sell-through versus 13.17M sell-in
December 31st, 2007: 19.51M sell-through versus 20.13M sell-in

Well, I don't know what the NPD numbers were for November 2007, so it's hard to know what it was at exactly through its first year.



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Bofferbrauer2 on 12 December 2017
Mnementh said:
Wright said:

It means Breath of the Wild, Mario Kart 8 DX and Mario Odyssey have sold more than 5m.

Which is crazy, especially in Odyssey's case since it released two months ago, as opposed to the other two games. Very crazy.

It's possible Reggie talks about NA specifically. But it seems unlikely that these three games have not a similar effect in other regions. It might be possible though, that Zelda does not that good in Japan but Splatoon 2 does instead.

Probably US only, otherwise Splatoon 2 wouldn't be just 1 in 4 - the game past the 2.5 Million mark by far already in the last quarterly report. Splatoon 2 would at the very least be 1 in 3 in worldwide sales. It's very possible however that the other 3 reached  the 50% attach rate not just in the US, but worldwide as well.

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Goodnightmoon on 12 December 2017
Pagan said:
StarDoor said:
This is probably either NA or USA, because one in four Switch owners buying Splatoon 2 is way too low for the worldwide attach rate. Even if Nintendo didn't ship a single copy since September 30th, it would still be over one in three: 3.61M out of 10M.

3 people from my family + me have a switch. Non of us have ever played any splatoon game and we are also not Interessted. Only one of us have odyssey. Botw all of us. Splatoon is not zelda sorry.

Which means absolutely nothing.

We know Splatoon sold 3.6m by September cause Nintendo said so, so what you and those 3 people from your family play is irrelevant.

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/software/index.html



AlfredoTurkey on 12 December 2017

What's strange to me is how the Switch is hanging around Wii's heels sale-wise even though Wii was a pop culture phenomenon. The only reason I can think of to explain this is that the gaming industry has gotten much larger than it was in 2006.



The_Liquid_Laser on 12 December 2017
AlfredoTurkey said:

What's strange to me is how the Switch is hanging around Wii's heels sale-wise even though Wii was a pop culture phenomenon. The only reason I can think of to explain this is that the gaming industry has gotten much larger than it was in 2006.

The Wii brought in a lot of new people to console gaming, and that is why its sales exploded.  Switch is selling mostly to handheld gamers right now.  Nintendo always sells a lot of consoles to handheld gamers.  That is where these customers came from.  Switch also got a decent sales boost by having really good software its first year (especially Zelda).



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Darwinianevolution on 12 December 2017

Dammit, my prediction of Splatoon 2 outselling Odyssey in the long run seems very difficult now. Still, the squids shall endure and win in the end.



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PAOerfulone on 12 December 2017

I'm assuming Reggie is referring to North America specifically, as opposed to worldwide.

Because if we're taking worldwide numbers into account, Splatoon 2 has sold much higher than "1/4th of all Switch owners."



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AlfredoTurkey on 12 December 2017
The_Liquid_Laser said:
AlfredoTurkey said:

What's strange to me is how the Switch is hanging around Wii's heels sale-wise even though Wii was a pop culture phenomenon. The only reason I can think of to explain this is that the gaming industry has gotten much larger than it was in 2006.

The Wii brought in a lot of new people to console gaming, and that is why its sales exploded.  Switch is selling mostly to handheld gamers right now.  Nintendo always sells a lot of consoles to handheld gamers.  That is where these customers came from.  Switch also got a decent sales boost by having really good software its first year (especially Zelda).

What makes you think handheld gamers are the reason though? Just a guess?



The_Liquid_Laser on 12 December 2017
AlfredoTurkey said:
The_Liquid_Laser said:

The Wii brought in a lot of new people to console gaming, and that is why its sales exploded.  Switch is selling mostly to handheld gamers right now.  Nintendo always sells a lot of consoles to handheld gamers.  That is where these customers came from.  Switch also got a decent sales boost by having really good software its first year (especially Zelda).

What makes you think handheld gamers are the reason though? Just a guess?

Which region has the largest percentage of handheld gamers? Japan.   After that handhelds are important to NA, then Europe, then the rest of the world, in that order.

Where does Switch have the highest demand?  Japan, clearly, then NA, then Europe, and then the rest of the world in that order.



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AlfredoTurkey on 12 December 2017
The_Liquid_Laser said:
AlfredoTurkey said:

What makes you think handheld gamers are the reason though? Just a guess?

Which region has the largest percentage of handheld gamers? Japan.   After that handhelds are important to NA, then Europe, then the rest of the world, in that order.

Where does Switch have the highest demand?  Japan, clearly, then NA, then Europe, and then the rest of the world in that order.

I agree with Japan. We all knew that being a handheld would yield results there. But the Switch is toe-to-toe with PS4 in the US and that's where the hypothesis falls apart.