Interesting, lets see if it sells as well ltd as B/W2. I guess it's possible, we'll see how it performs for the holidays

It will be interesting to see the sales in BF week in the USA, it might have a small drop, thus it can be at 1m by the third week.

Then we have the Christmas week...

In Japan it reached 2m in the end of year, refuting many people that were not even expecting it to hit 2m LT there.

In eu the higher opening isn't surprising, 3ds is still strong there the amazon european sites ranking were full of 3ds games and new 2ds xl was above ps4 on holidays ( well, excluding the uk ) just see miitopia performance in Europe.

in the USA is the problem, only software sales-wise  because Reggie cited in December  that it was on track to sell more units this year than the last.

Star Wars: Battlefront (2015) First Week numbers:
PS4 - 2,762,639
XBO - 1,171,567
PC - 157,669
Total - 4,091,875

Star Wars: Battlefront II (2017) First Week numbers:
PS4 - 869,493
XBO - 438,708
Total - 1,308,201

Now, I'm sure some of this has to do with not as much hype around The Last Jedi as with The Force Awakens as well as the fact that this wasn't the first Star Wars Battlefront game since 2005, but even still, that's a huuuge drop from one game to the next.

At least with Pokemon, it has the excuses of releasing after the 3DS' successor had already been out for 8 months at the time, and US/UM were just enhanced 3rd and 4th versions of Sun/Moon, it was already the 4th Pokemon game in the series, and it's pretty much expected of 3rd versions (or sequels of main games in Black/White 2's case) to sell significantly less than mainline entries, except for Pokemon Yellow which came out right in the middle of the first PokeMania phenomenon.

There's no way this was anywhere near what EA was expecting and hoping for from Battlefront II, on an evergrowing and rapidly rising combined install base, with the PS4's peak year and what will most likely be the Xbox One's peak year.
That's what happens when you let greed and lust get the better of you. Keep playing with fire, and sooner or later you get burned.

Switch third parties are holding up modestly well. When I first saw DOOM at 80k I was devistated, but thinking about it more 500k for DOOM and 1 mil for Skyrim is a lock

I thoroughly enjoy seeing Battlefront bomb like that. Gamers do have some taste after all.

All eyes are obviously on the Switch third party games. I think they're doing okay; as well as one could hope. Perhaps not enough to warrant much AAA content, exclusives especially, but I think many publishers are going to try to port their catalogue of games from 2014-2017 to Switch.

In other news, I'm very much happy to see Breath of the Wild's rapidly growing numbers. In comparison, Twilight Princess was at 4.11 million at the end of 2007, 13 months on the market. Meanwhile, Breath of the Wild is at 4.54 million with just 8 and a half months on the market as of these numbers.

When we get Nintendo's Financial Report ending on December 31st, I now expect Breath of the Wild to have 7 million on just the Switch alone. Combined with the Wii U version, it should become the best selling Zelda game of all-time before it even finishes its first full year on the market.

60% is the average drop from mainline title to expansion.

Nintendo has already moved on, 3ds gets mostly low profile games, which sadly are priced at 40$ and wouldn't have been made if there was no 3ds, unless some sufferers from acute anti3dsness after switch release ( someone maybe even before that ) mean discontinuation of 3ds...
The console that will have sold 7m barely yoy down, in the year of switch while Nintendo was expecting 5m in the beginning of the year and has a great profit margin at this point of its lifetime and can work as lure for future switch purchases.
What? Some people feel that 3ds deprives sales of switch? Yeah because the people who buy the 149$ new 2ds xl now, would surely buy the 299$/339 euros switch instead if 3ds had been phased out.
P.s
Of course Pokémon us/um would have such a drop, that's what happening with third versions/sequels everytime, plus that s/m benefited from pokemon go mania and had much higher than normal sales in its first weeks for a Pokémon game, notably in Europe, whilst us/um sales will rely on legs.
In Japan showed that it has them, it remains to be seen if the same is valid in the west, which has the BF ( a week after us/um release) tradition while Japan not.

Amazing numbers

These numbers make me even more eager to see the next Nintendo direct.