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Forums - Sales Discussion - Wii vs Switch vs 3DS vs PS4 : shipment accumulation by declared fiscal quarter result

AngryLittleAlchemist on 30 October 2018
p0isonparadise said: 


Anyways, I derailed this thread long enough. If Nintendo plays its cards right I could see Switch doing more of a Game Boy/DS hybrid sales trend.

Sorry if someone else already asked this, but when you say a trend similar to Gameboy and DS, are you talking sales figures (like 110-150 mil) or just consistency in selling 



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KBG29 on 30 October 2018

Doesn't really matter if they hit their target or not when it comes to the consumers, only the stock market cares about earnings and forecasts.

The biggest thing from next quarter will be the indication on where the platform is really heading. Wii, WiiU, and 3DS all dove hard after they surged. Has Switch already surged or dose it still have stong legs? That is what I'm interested in for Q4.



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Intrinsic on 30 October 2018

All you guys saying it doesn't matter obviously don't know how stock markets and shareholders work.



zorg1000 on 30 October 2018
Intrinsic said:
All you guys saying it doesn't matter obviously don't know how stock markets and shareholders work.

Has Sony had any major negative consequences since they missed their PS4 forecast a couple years ago? Nope.

Hardware forecast is only one part of the equation, if hardware slightly misses but software, revenue & profit exceed their forcast than shareholders aren't going to go in a frenzy.



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The_Liquid_Laser on 31 October 2018
zorg1000 said:
Intrinsic said:
All you guys saying it doesn't matter obviously don't know how stock markets and shareholders work.

Has Sony had any major negative consequences since they missed their PS4 forecast a couple years ago? Nope.

Hardware forecast is only one part of the equation, if hardware slightly misses but software, revenue & profit exceed their forcast than shareholders aren't going to go in a frenzy.

I agree.  In fact, software is really where the profit comes from.  So far it looks like Nintendo is going to exceed their software forecast, but fall short of their hardware forecast.  

Hardware is nice to look at though, because it is a simple metric that gives a good idea how the whole console is doing in the present and the future.  One expects that hardware sales will lead to software sales.



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StarDoor on 31 October 2018
Marth said:
Do you maybe have the biggest peaks of every quarter? Would love to see what the all time records for Q1-Q4 are and which console/handheld set that record.

Well, it's not really that interesting since DS holds every record.

Q1: June 2007, 6.98M
Q2: September 2008, 6.79M
Q3: December 2008, 11.89M
Q4: March 2008, 5.81M



zorg1000 on 31 October 2018
StarDoor said:
Marth said:
Do you maybe have the biggest peaks of every quarter? Would love to see what the all time records for Q1-Q4 are and which console/handheld set that record.

Well, it's not really that interesting since DS holds every record.

Q1: June 2007, 6.98M
Q2: September 2008, 6.79M
Q3: December 2008, 11.89M
Q4: March 2008, 5.81M

DS was such a beast



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Bofferbrauer2 on 13 August 2020

This thread could seriously need new updates @Amnesia 

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mk7sx on 13 August 2020
StarDoor said:
Marth said:
Do you maybe have the biggest peaks of every quarter? Would love to see what the all time records for Q1-Q4 are and which console/handheld set that record.

Well, it's not really that interesting since DS holds every record.

Q1: June 2007, 6.98M
Q2: September 2008, 6.79M
Q3: December 2008, 11.89M
Q4: March 2008, 5.81M

Think NSW will eventually take the Q3 record, either this year or next year.  If they can drop the price-points to 169.99/249.99 for Lite/OG and get a new Zelda/Pokemon out next year in the holiday quarter, I think they can move 13-15M units.

The other quarters will be tough.  We'll see what happens with Q2 - given that they moved 5.7M with stock problems in Q1 this year, Q2 could be close (JP is already trending stronger and Obon will provide a boost).