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Forums - Sales Discussion - Global Hardware 3 March 2018

JRPGfan on 19 March 2018
The_Liquid_Laser said:
Wow, looks like the February trend is continuing in NA. Of course in Japan, Switch coming in like a wrecking ball.

The promotion and temp. price cuts (for XB1) are done this week though (after march 3rd).
So next week it ll probably be lower (for XB1 in US).

In Japan Switch is gonna continue to dominate imo.
Just as in Europe the PS4 will probably also keep doing so.



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JRPGfan on 19 March 2018
VGPolyglot said:
RolStoppable said:

Switch has yet to receive a price cut and is coming off its worst two-month-stretch in terms of first party releases. Switch had nothing in January and only Bayonetta 2 in February. Bayonetta is an IP that doesn't sell hardware, so a port of an old game wasn't going to do anything worth of note.

I don't even know when the Switch will get a price cut, the Wii U only had a semi-price cut by making the Deluxe version the price of the standard one, but it never actually went down.

I think Nintendo is makeing enough on each sale, that if it was willing to sell it at break even point, they could lower the price abit today.
But yeah, might not see a price cut until Nintendo do a "New Nintendo Switch XL" or such (like the New 3DS XL ect).



PwerlvlAmy on 19 March 2018

at least now youtubers and websites have something to use for clickbait now



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COKTOE on 19 March 2018
CaptainExplosion said:
Switch is still selling better in North America and Japan, not so much in Europe. Not surprising though, because Europe loves the PS4.

I think you misread the numbers.

Op. Monster Hunter Japanese PS4 bump is officially over. Everything is updating so regularly now. S' great!



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ZODIARKrebirth on 19 March 2018

go ps4, this year will be amazing



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ZODIARKrebirth on 19 March 2018
CGI-Quality said:
PlatformN. AmericaEuropeJapanGlobal
98,241 109,813 19,987 271,184
78,517 63,522 44,874 222,179
96,791 32,969 256 144,161
15,952 19,930 11,385 51,132
198 632 6,609 8,176

and thanks for having speeded up the updates, i know that this is really much work, thanks



acdcste on 19 March 2018
trunkswd said:

Here are the weekly global hardware sales for February 2018 for anyone that is curious. 

  3DS PSV PS4 X1 NS
10-Feb-18 68,247 6,102 342,520 120,445 221,318
17-Feb-18 59,288 6,916 314,760 125,370 227,686
24-Feb-18 52,557 6,498 299,507 146,682 218,530
3-Mar-18 51,132 8,176 271,184 144,161 222,179

That’s pretty cool. Maybe worth doing a thread at the start of a month with a table for the prior month?



LipeJJ on 19 March 2018
acdcste said:
trunkswd said:

Here are the weekly global hardware sales for February 2018 for anyone that is curious. 

  3DS PSV PS4 X1 NS
10-Feb-18 68,247 6,102 342,520 120,445 221,318
17-Feb-18 59,288 6,916 314,760 125,370 227,686
24-Feb-18 52,557 6,498 299,507 146,682 218,530
3-Mar-18 51,132 8,176 271,184 144,161 222,179

That’s pretty cool. Maybe worth doing a thread at the start of a month with a table for the prior month?

That would be very interesting. Helps putting things into perspective.



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acdcste on 19 March 2018
LipeJJ said:
acdcste said:

That’s pretty cool. Maybe worth doing a thread at the start of a month with a table for the prior month?

That would be very interesting. Help putting thing into perspective.

I agree. Is a nice tidy way of looking at it.



Lonely_Dolphin on 19 March 2018

Kirby Star Allies is apparently doing quite well, so I'm eager to see if it'll have a noticeable effect. Otherwise nothing much to say this week, well I guess 3DS didn't have such a bad drop so 50k might be the baseline, which wouldn't be bad for a 7 year old system.

JRPGfan said:
VGPolyglot said:

I don't even know when the Switch will get a price cut, the Wii U only had a semi-price cut by making the Deluxe version the price of the standard one, but it never actually went down.

I think Nintendo is makeing enough on each sale, that if it was willing to sell it at break even point, they could lower the price abit today.
But yeah, might not see a price cut until Nintendo do a "New Nintendo Switch XL" or such (like the New 3DS XL ect).

I don't see a Switch XL happening, they can't change the size of the Joy Cons, and really the screen is already plenty big enough for a portable. If one wants an even bigger screen there's always docked mode. They'll definitely want to cut the price though to increases the system's appeal in general but more specifically to the handheld market. I expect to see a $50 cut next year, and then one more down the road to reach that $199 sweet spot. Value saving bundles will also be implemented at some point, probably starting this holiday.