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Forums - Sales Discussion - Japan sales (Week 10): Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - March 05-11, 2018

SKMBlake said:
If the Switch continues to sell this well in Japan, it could sell more than 3 millions this year only, which would make it close to PS4 numbers

Right but if Nintendo wants to hit that 20 million goal, it's going to need to sell a lot more than that.



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SKMBlake said:
If the Switch continues to sell this well in Japan, it could sell more than 3 millions this year only, which would make it close to PS4 numbers

It will do over 4 million this year



When the herd loses its way, the shepard must kill the bull that leads them astray.

Good week for Switch.



zorg1000 said:
SKMBlake said:
If the Switch continues to sell this well in Japan, it could sell more than 3 millions this year only, which would make it close to PS4 numbers

It will do over 4 million this year

This will be difficult. Between 3 to 3.5m is more likely at current selling rate.......the dark horse is the Labo effect.  It might not need Japan to meet Global targets though. It is doing extremely well in Germany, France and Spain and the UK is starting to stir. Last week's direct is bringing significant momentum.



duduspace1 said:
zorg1000 said:

It will do over 4 million this year

This will be difficult. Between 3 to 3.5m is more likely at current selling rate.......the dark horse is the Labo effect.  It might not need Japan to meet Global targets though. It is doing extremely well in Germany, France and Spain and the UK is starting to stir.

In japan switch is at 535k for the year. There are 42 weeks left. If nsw avg 55k a week for the next 38 weeks and avg 175k for Dec (4 weeks) that is right there...  3.5mil for 2018.

 

Its going to avg better than 55k a week due to bumps (even if baseline is 45k). Its going over 4mil



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28,4k PS4's = abit low.
45,1k Switches = nice.

182 xbox's...... = meh.



duduspace1 said:
zorg1000 said:

It will do over 4 million this year

This will be difficult. Between 3 to 3.5m is more likely at current selling rate.......the dark horse is the Labo effect.  It might not need Japan to meet Global targets though. It is doing extremely well in Germany, France and Spain and the UK is starting to stir. Last week's direct is bringing significant momentum.

No, it will be easy.

It did 3.3 million last year with a whole bunch of weeks in the 20-30k range while its consistently doing 40-50k without any major releases so far this year.

Switch being roughly flat YOY would be a very unlikely thing to happen this year.



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duduspace1 said:
zorg1000 said:

It will do over 4 million this year

This will be difficult. Between 3 to 3.5m is more likely at current selling rate.......the dark horse is the Labo effect.  It might not need Japan to meet Global targets though. It is doing extremely well in Germany, France and Spain and the UK is starting to stir. Last week's direct is bringing significant momentum.

It did that much last year, Fire Emblem is out this year though that will give Switch a significant boost in Japan alongside Smash.



tbone51 said:
duduspace1 said:

This will be difficult. Between 3 to 3.5m is more likely at current selling rate.......the dark horse is the Labo effect.  It might not need Japan to meet Global targets though. It is doing extremely well in Germany, France and Spain and the UK is starting to stir.

In japan switch is at 535k for the year. There are 42 weeks left. If nsw avg 55k a week for the next 38 weeks and avg 175k for Dec (4 weeks) that is right there...  3.5mil for 2018.

 

Its going to avg better than 55k a week due to bumps (even if baseline is 45k). Its going over 4mil

This is very convincing so I'll move my estimate to between 3.5 and 4m. I am still not sure of over 4m.



duduspace1 said:
zorg1000 said:

It will do over 4 million this year

This will be difficult. Between 3 to 3.5m is more likely at current selling rate.......the dark horse is the Labo effect.  It might not need Japan to meet Global targets though. It is doing extremely well in Germany, France and Spain and the UK is starting to stir. Last week's direct is bringing significant momentum.

Switch is in line of doing better than last year, especially during spring where the Switch was at about 20k for 2 months due to lack of Switch consoles. The week before Splatoon 2 launch the Switch was at about 1.1M. I'm pretty sure this year Switch will be quite ahead of that come week 28.

Since the console did around 3.3M last year I very much doubt that it will do any less then that. 4M+ might be difficult, but I reserve Judgement until after E3 on that