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tbone51 on 14 November 2018
Megiddo said:

Here is the week 45 update in terms of the two big consoles in Japan's path to be able to reach the commonly stated (in these sales threads) estimates for 2018 sales (2 mil for PS4, 4 mil for Switch) .

  TWS GD YTD % Goal AWN (Change)
PS4 16,081 -66,034 1,359,155 68.0% (+0.8) 91,549 (+9434)
Switch 54,235 -191,483 2,088,488 52.2% (+2.1) 273,355 (+27,355)

TWS - This week's sales
GD - Goal differential, the difference between the average week needed from last week compared to this week's sales
YTD - Units sold in 2018 so far including this week's sales
AWN - Average weekly sales needed to reach the estimate for the console.

At this point, it looks like it's merely a race to see who can get closest to the goal. The Switch would have to sell 400k+ with the Smash/Pokemon bundles in next week's numbers to convince me it has a prayer of reaching its goal. The PS4 has no chance at all. So who can get closest? We'll have a very good idea of Pokemon and Smash's holiday power next week.

Has to do 400k? Huh lol. If it did 400k next week it would mean itll be closer to 5mil than 4mil by years end. Have you seen best HW weeks outside of launch? I mean "400k" xD



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nero on 14 November 2018
Mbolibombo said:
Megiddo said:
How many Switch units are people expecting in next week's MC numbers? I'm curious.

I'm guessing about 180,000 personally. Though the Switch has been pretty much always in the 40-60k range this year, so it's hard to get any sort of read on what a massive title release will do.

If we compared to last holiday dates and releases.

Odyssey week launched with ~127k units and week 47 was at ~145k units. Releasing this week is:

 

  • Pokemon LG
  • Pokemon Bundles
  • Smash Bundle
  • SMP Joy con bundle
  • 4 minor games that wont drive any sales what so ever.
I think 180k should easily be achieveable... and quite frankly, it really should be a lot higher than that. But I wont guess a number. But who the heck knows hehe... it's a very weird year in terms of sales. It's been steady as you mention, I believe this week was the third highest for the entire year. It's been close static to 40-50+k for almost the entire year.

 

Can we have 200k+? It may be possible as you said it's been stable this year. And this will be the fourth highest week

# W Sales
1 1 146006
2 33 54647
3 11 54342
4 45 54235
5 29 53745
6 18 53113
7 31 50799
8 26 50762
9 12 50412
10 28 50239


Megiddo on 14 November 2018
tbone51 said:
Megiddo said:

Here is the week 45 update in terms of the two big consoles in Japan's path to be able to reach the commonly stated (in these sales threads) estimates for 2018 sales (2 mil for PS4, 4 mil for Switch) .

  TWS GD YTD % Goal AWN (Change)
PS4 16,081 -66,034 1,359,155 68.0% (+0.8) 91,549 (+9434)
Switch 54,235 -191,483 2,088,488 52.2% (+2.1) 273,355 (+27,355)

TWS - This week's sales
GD - Goal differential, the difference between the average week needed from last week compared to this week's sales
YTD - Units sold in 2018 so far including this week's sales
AWN - Average weekly sales needed to reach the estimate for the console.

At this point, it looks like it's merely a race to see who can get closest to the goal. The Switch would have to sell 400k+ with the Smash/Pokemon bundles in next week's numbers to convince me it has a prayer of reaching its goal. The PS4 has no chance at all. So who can get closest? We'll have a very good idea of Pokemon and Smash's holiday power next week.

Has to do 400k? Huh lol. If it did 400k next week it would mean itll be closer to 5mil than 4mil by years end. Have you seen best HW weeks outside of launch? I mean "400k" xD

It needs 275k each week xD.

If it can't eat into its AWN with Pokemon launch + Pokemon/Smash bundles then the Math will become impossible xD

For instance if it's 150k next week then it will need 295k the remaining weeks xD

400k will lower it to 250k the remaining weeks xD

It has to actually hit and surpass its AWN eventually if it wants to hit 4 million xD

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TruckOSaurus on 14 November 2018

The calm before the storm. Things will get interesting again soon. The bump in Switch sales is nice to see with nothing of note releasing this week.



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Faelco on 14 November 2018

I saw (here or on another website, can't remember) that some Japanese stores warned their customers about possible shortages of Switch. Could explain the bump before the big releases, some worried parents securing the Christmas gifts?



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nero on 14 November 2018
Faelco said:

I saw (here or on another website, can't remember) that some Japanese stores warned their customers about possible shortages of Switch. Could explain the bump before the big releases, some worried parents securing the Christmas gifts?

It will be shortages all over again.. Damn NS if it's true



Replicant on 14 November 2018

PS4 is so low. It needs a price cut and it needs to start receiving some of the upcoming and promising games.

Kingdom Hearts 3
Resident Evil 2
Devil May Cry V
Granblue Fantasy Project Re:Link
Lost Soul Aside
Code Vein
Edge of Eternity
Sekiro
Ghost of Tsushima
Judge Eyes
Left Alive
Ace Combat 7
Digimon Survive
Final Fantasy VII Remake (might not even launch on PS4)



Train wreck on 14 November 2018
Replicant said:

PS4 is so low. It needs a price cut and it needs to start receiving some of the upcoming and promising games.

Kingdom Hearts 3
Resident Evil 2
Devil May Cry V
Granblue Fantasy Project Re:Link
Lost Soul Aside
Code Vein
Edge of Eternity
Sekiro
Ghost of Tsushima
Judge Eyes
Left Alive
Ace Combat 7
Digimon Survive
Final Fantasy VII Remake (might not even launch on PS4)

Japan only accounts for 8% of total PS4 sales.  A better scenario would be for the games you listed to up their western sales potential.  Its easier for the PS4 to go from 79 million western PS4's to 115 million than Japan going from 7 million to 10 million.



Acevil on 14 November 2018

I'll be honest, even before the PSPro price cut, I did not think PS4 would be slipping after three big 100,000 games at this point, one of them being easily 500,000.



 

Miyamotoo on 14 November 2018
Megiddo said:
How many Switch units are people expecting in next week's MC numbers? I'm curious.

I'm guessing about 180,000 personally. Though the Switch has been pretty much always in the 40-60k range this year, so it's hard to get any sort of read on what a massive title release will do.

I expecting around 200k, more than 150k in any case.