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zorg1000 on 18 May 2018
Nautilus said:
quickrick said:

I thought DK was a may release.

It was a early May release, if im not mistaken.And by the looks of it, NPD got the initial sales of that game.

 

"Top sellers were God of War, Far Cry 5, Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 01: Variety Kit and Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze."

First 2 days of sales were included in April NPD



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quickrick on 18 May 2018
Nautilus said:
quickrick said:

That should a huge system seller on switch imo, first great 2d platformer on the system. switch should get a boost in may i think from DK.

Its going to push some units, but I personally think its going to be as big as Kirby in terms of convincing people to jump abord.TF is a better game than Kirby, but its still a port, and a significant number of people already played the game, and it dosent have the impact a new game has.

on wiiu it flopped. It will sell 3x as much on switch imo, its the perfect game for a handheld.



Nautilus on 18 May 2018
quickrick said:
Nautilus said:

Its going to push some units, but I personally think its going to be as big as Kirby in terms of convincing people to jump abord.TF is a better game than Kirby, but its still a port, and a significant number of people already played the game, and it dosent have the impact a new game has.

on wiiu it flopped. It will sell 3x as much on switch imo, its the perfect game for a handheld.

Oh thats certainly possible, even though saying the Wii U version flopped is simply false.But I do agree it didnt reach its potential.

All I meant it is that this game will sell more to current owners of a Switch rather than convince people to buy a Switch because of it.



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Nautilus on 18 May 2018
zorg1000 said:
Nautilus said:

It was a early May release, if im not mistaken.And by the looks of it, NPD got the initial sales of that game.

 

"Top sellers were God of War, Far Cry 5, Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 01: Variety Kit and Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze."

First 2 days of sales were included in April NPD

Oh ok, thanks!



My (locked) thread about how difficulty should be a decision for the developers, not the gamers.

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=241866&page=1

quickrick on 18 May 2018
Nautilus said:
quickrick said:

on wiiu it flopped. It will sell 3x as much on switch imo, its the perfect game for a handheld.

Oh thats certainly possible, even though saying the Wii U version flopped is simply false.But I do agree it didnt reach its potential.

All I meant it is that this game will sell more to current owners of a Switch rather than convince people to buy a Switch because of it.

For a franchise as big as DK and for what it sold on wii, I would consider 1-1.5 million LTD a flop.



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DonFerrari on 18 May 2018
Green098 said:
Pinkie_pie said:
How is nintendo expecting to sell 20m switch this year when it's not gonna outsell ps4 and Sony is expecting 16m this year?

With games presumably. 

They will need serious improvement on the numbers to reach it. But it surely is doable.



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kirby007 on 18 May 2018
Hiku said:
kurasakiichimaruALT said:

Yeah, I don't think it'll be great. The Labo box is almost as big as PS4 box that will need more space in retail stores by november.

Yeah the size of the Labo boxes is an interesting point.



If retailers overstocked on it, they're not going to want them taking up that much space in place of other products. Perhaps we'll see a price cut soon?

CosmicSex said:

I think this is the first time I actually won lol!

What does the % indicate?

jonathanalis said:
Nintendo readjusted 2017 switch shipments forecast from 10, to 14, then to 15. Seems Nintendo is being conservative in their forecasts.
But is very hard to see these 20 million...
This pokemon game might be a huge system seller, and Nintendo might be planning other huge things or deals.

Switch was also a new never tried before type of system coming off a colossal failure (WiiU), so Nintendo would probably want to be conservative at that point. Especially after what happened in 2014 where they slashed their sales forecast by ~75%. It's better to underestimate sales than over estimate them.

We're just one month into the fiscal year so I don't know about hitting 20m one way or another. But it doesn't look like Switch will commonly do fantastic numbers on months where it doesn't have quality software.
This year looks to be the first big test for Switch's software output.

% away from actual number so if anyone had predicted 326k for ps4 theybwould have gotten 0%



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Nautilus on 18 May 2018
quickrick said:
Nautilus said:

Oh thats certainly possible, even though saying the Wii U version flopped is simply false.But I do agree it didnt reach its potential.

All I meant it is that this game will sell more to current owners of a Switch rather than convince people to buy a Switch because of it.

For a franchise as big as DK and for what it sold on wii, I would consider 1-1.5 million LTD a flop.

I dont think you are in the majority, but I think we can all agree that it should have sold more.



My (locked) thread about how difficulty should be a decision for the developers, not the gamers.

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=241866&page=1

JSG87 on 18 May 2018
PortisheadBiscuit said:
quickrick said:

I don't see  sell through at 17.5 million as possible. if they sell 17.5 million, 2.5 million isn't all that much. i think sell through will be around 14 million. 

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WhatATimeToBeAlive on 18 May 2018

I didn't expect Switch to "lose momentum" this much. It's going to be interesting to see whether new games will bounce it back.



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