no surprise after E3, but i think it could change with next game announcements, nothing special

It's fine! That's less than 1% per Smash fighter announced

Can you show me please because I am quite often around here, to not sat evertdays, I follow topic closely and I have not seen this.

Nintendo shareholder Q&A official Japanese transcript out. Interesting choice of words: Switch sales in Apr-June 2018 "could pale in comparison" vs Apr-June 2017.

Given they only sold 1.97m last year, it would be shocking if this year was less. Hmmhttps://t.co/lPB6VKePBB pic.twitter.com/6Jx3WYx1c8

— Yuji Nakamura (@ynakamura56) July 3, 2018

The translation is actually somewhat weaker quarter. 

Then numbers of vgchartz are not only overtracked, they are completly wrong.

You're aware they give outthose Q&A reports in english, too? Because here you can read it all in english: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2018/qa1806e.pdf

In other words, yes, sales slowed down a bit compared to the previous quarter and possibly to the same quarter last year (the phrasing is a bit ambiguous, it can also mean that it's just not impressively more than compared to last year's Q1 numbers. However, it's probable to be slightly down). On the other hand Nintendo was fully expecting it because their main game lineup was all in the second half of the year. He's saying that sales are going up since E3, so it can't have been that badly received.(end Q2 and Q3) Kimishima also mentions later down the line that not all the games for the FY and holiday season have been disclosed (Q12)

While we're at it, the question was if Nintendo still aims to ship 20 millions, and he's basically saying that the quarter may look weak, but it's expected and on track to sell 20M. It was not one of the questions about the stock prices, which this discussion is about. For that, some other questions had been asked:

(Q3)First, if Labo did fail, and Nintendo said while it didn't spike nearly as high as games usually do, it's still selling and Nintendo is hoping to continue to sell them over time

(Q2)Another question is to what Nintendo wants do do to correct the share price, and there Nintendo mostly pointed at the games releasing in the second half of the year and that they had huge audiences at their E3 booth and invitationals.

While not directly part of the topic anymore, I just want to point out some other parts of the shareholder's meeting. There are:

(Q7)A comment from Tanaka were he says that several Indies on the Switch have sold over 1 Million copies and that Nintendo plans to release some 20-30 games per week.

(Q10)The reason why Nintendo didn't enter the Chinese market yet. Basically, while the consoles themselves can now be sold in China, software, games, and networking are still heavily regulated. In other words they could sell their consoles there, but not the games yet and can't offer an eShop either to compensate for it.

Edit: sorry for the formatting, tried to copy/paste out of the pdf and it messed up something. Also, wished to have seen what led to Q13 in action.

Understandable when their 2018 switch line up can be summarised as: Smash

Obviously nintendo are gonna say they are fully expecting it to play it cool, don't really care what nintedo said really, they have been off with there 3ds and wiiu forcast every year they won't change it till they know 100% they can't make that number. BTW the official  translation just came out. For nintedo to mention this early means, its not gonna be pretty 1.5-1.7 million is what i expect for shipments.

" A simple comparison of hardware units sold during the first quarter of this fiscal year might not look as good as the units sold during this period in the prior fiscal year."

Sounds pretty straight forward to me, less hardware units sold than the same period last year. Which means total Switch shipments are less than 19.76m units as of June 30th.

Thanks for posting the link to it in english.

quickrick 2 hours ago:

quickrick now:

There you have it folks.