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Soundwave on 21 November 2018

Switch top 10 looks healthy

Super Mario Party
Mario Kart 8
Super Mario Odyssey
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Diablo III
Starlink: Battle For Atlas
Dark Souls Remastered
The World Ends with You: Final Remix
Lego DC Super Villains
My Hero One's Justice

6 of the top 10 are third party titles and Diablo III even cracked the overall top 20 for all software. Not bad for an old port. Also liking that variety.

Also RIP Labo.



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DonFerrari on 21 November 2018
drkohler said:
DonFerrari said:

I think 18M is very safe, with strech to 20M and 19M being the most probable (which is still 3M higher than their projection). I wouldn't doubt they out ship Switch or at least have a technical tie for the fiscal year (and that is considering Sony is like 2 or 3M ahead so far in the year, but I expect Switch to sell more on holidays).

Yep, they are probably at a point in their curve that additional production would cost more instead of less, and at current production they can sell almost all without pricecut so no need for it.

We are in a time when the factories are "sold out" in China, it's XMas production crunch and there are no free supply lines available, anywhere, any factory. Even if they wanted, Sony could not magically produce more PS4s than they have ordered. In such a hypothetical scenario (throwing out other customers for production of additional PS4s instead), the manufacturing price would probably skyrocket to $400. That's just the ugly side of mass manufacturing.

At $199, the PS4 induces a loss in the books. Like last year, Sony will simply set a maximum amount of money they want to lose on hardware which limits the number of $199 PS4s available. (Needless to say, currently the plain PS4s sell for $329-$349 here in town so it seems NA gets preferrential treatment although NA isn't really the prime market for Sony). As Sony increased the forecast, but they will produce the additional 0.5M units after the XMas rush, towards the end of this fj. Maybe with flying in units straight from the factories, they can avoid empty shelves after XMas...

Yes, Sony would need to have negotiated additional capacity 3-6 months before Xmas if they wanted more made, but even so I believe that it would probably cost them more than what they currently have, plus they cutting price to move this surplus will reduce profit and it may not pay-off on the extra SW.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Intrinsic on 21 November 2018

I guess its safe to say that sony isn,t all that interested in overall unit sales as much as its interested in remaining profitable on each box sold.

Then again who can blame them? At there current trajectory they should be hitting 100M by around fall next year and they are already making a killing on software sales and PS+ subs....... at the end of the day thats really whats important.



Kerotan on 21 November 2018
Miyamotoo said:
OP should be updated thread with more informations from official NPD statement.

In any case top 10 selling Switch games for October:

1. Super Mario Party
2. Mario Kart 8
3. Super Mario Odyssey
4. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
5. Diablo III
6. Starlink: Battle For Atlas
7. Dark Souls Remastered
8. The World Ends with You: Final Remix
9. Lego DC Super Villains
10. My Hero One's Justice


I am very happy seeing that Diablo III, Starlink: Battle For Atlas and Dark Souls Remastered charting very good on Switch list,
all those games are right after Mario Party and Switch evergreens (Zelda, MK8DX and Odyssey).
Those games deserves good sales on Switch.

Number 1 to 4 we know are selling well. Saying that 5 to 10 are doing well because they are close to the top 4 doesn't guarantee they are. There could be a huge gap from the sales of 4 and 5.

I also wouldn't say such a late port of games like diabo being number 5 is a good indication of your platforms overall software situation. 



zorg1000 on 21 November 2018
Kerotan said:
Miyamotoo said:
OP should be updated thread with more informations from official NPD statement.

In any case top 10 selling Switch games for October:

1. Super Mario Party
2. Mario Kart 8
3. Super Mario Odyssey
4. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
5. Diablo III
6. Starlink: Battle For Atlas
7. Dark Souls Remastered
8. The World Ends with You: Final Remix
9. Lego DC Super Villains
10. My Hero One's Justice


I am very happy seeing that Diablo III, Starlink: Battle For Atlas and Dark Souls Remastered charting very good on Switch list,
all those games are right after Mario Party and Switch evergreens (Zelda, MK8DX and Odyssey).
Those games deserves good sales on Switch.

Number 1 to 4 we know are selling well. Saying that 5 to 10 are doing well because they are close to the top 4 doesn't guarantee they are. There could be a huge gap from the sales of 4 and 5.

I also wouldn't say such a late port of games like diabo being number 5 is a good indication of your platforms overall software situation. 

Diablo released Nov 2, so ya it definitely did pretty good to rank number 5 for the month.



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Kerotan on 21 November 2018
zorg1000 said:
Kerotan said:

Number 1 to 4 we know are selling well. Saying that 5 to 10 are doing well because they are close to the top 4 doesn't guarantee they are. There could be a huge gap from the sales of 4 and 5.

I also wouldn't say such a late port of games like diabo being number 5 is a good indication of your platforms overall software situation. 

Diablo released Nov 2, so ya it definitely did pretty good to rank number 5 for the month.

It doesn't have much competition below it though. 



zorg1000 on 21 November 2018
Kerotan said:
zorg1000 said:

Diablo released Nov 2, so ya it definitely did pretty good to rank number 5 for the month.

It doesn't have much competition below it though. 

Based on?



When the herd loses its way, the shepard must kill the bull that leads them astray.

MasonADC on 21 November 2018
Kerotan said:
zorg1000 said:

Diablo released Nov 2, so ya it definitely did pretty good to rank number 5 for the month.

It doesn't have much competition below it though. 

I can't believe that the 3rd party titles can't splatoon from making the list, so that's something 



Train wreck on 21 November 2018
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- Hardware cycles as we knew them are over - The biggest games continue to break records, but the games that don't hit that threshold aren't selling as well as the data suggest they should - There is more variety of games hitting the top 20 than I can ever recall (cont.)

3:48 PM - 20 Nov 2018

That leads me to believe that the mega selling games are taking the lion share of revenue and other games (even though they chart) are not doing as well as their ranking on said charts suggest.


Soundwave on 21 November 2018
Kerotan said:
Miyamotoo said:
OP should be updated thread with more informations from official NPD statement.

In any case top 10 selling Switch games for October:

1. Super Mario Party
2. Mario Kart 8
3. Super Mario Odyssey
4. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
5. Diablo III
6. Starlink: Battle For Atlas
7. Dark Souls Remastered
8. The World Ends with You: Final Remix
9. Lego DC Super Villains
10. My Hero One's Justice


I am very happy seeing that Diablo III, Starlink: Battle For Atlas and Dark Souls Remastered charting very good on Switch list,
all those games are right after Mario Party and Switch evergreens (Zelda, MK8DX and Odyssey).
Those games deserves good sales on Switch.

Number 1 to 4 we know are selling well. Saying that 5 to 10 are doing well because they are close to the top 4 doesn't guarantee they are. There could be a huge gap from the sales of 4 and 5.

I also wouldn't say such a late port of games like diabo being number 5 is a good indication of your platforms overall software situation. 

Except Diablo III made it into the top 20 overall software too and is right next to the big 4 titles in the overall software rankings. Not bad for an old game.