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Forums - Nintendo - PR: Nintendo Switch Best Selling week Ever (US) (8.2mil+Sold Switches LTD) [Update: 8.6mil+]

quickrick on 29 November 2018
StarDoor said:
quickrick said:

I don't see any mention of best buy at all, he's saying based on his data switch sold more 200k in the US before that black Friday period. 

Benji is an insider who works at Best Buy. Given how much you talk about him, I assumed that you would already know that.

I think you have him mixed up, he never gave the source/retail of where he get's his numbers, pretty sure it's not best buy.



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StarDoor on 29 November 2018
quickrick said:
StarDoor said:

Benji is an insider who works at Best Buy. Given how much you talk about him, I assumed that you would already know that.

I think you have him mixed up, he never gave the source/retail of where he get's his numbers, pretty sure it's not best buy.

Huh. I really thought he said it somewhere before. Where do you think he works, then? Target? Amazon? GameStop? Walmart? Those are really the only other retailers that I could see selling 200k units in less than 3 weeks.



quickrick on 29 November 2018
StarDoor said:
quickrick said:

I think you have him mixed up, he never gave the source/retail of where he get's his numbers, pretty sure it's not best buy.

Huh. I really thought he said it somewhere before. Where do you think he works, then? Target? Amazon? GameStop? Walmart? Those are really the only other retailers that I could see selling 200k units in less than 3 weeks.

all i know is supposedly he has a large data sample, like a pretty big picture, but not the whole picture from what he keeps saying. I would never take what he says as a fact for obvious reasons. 



JSG87 on 29 November 2018

He is literally saying that he has the data for a fact that the Switch sold at least 200K beforr black Friday. He is literally saying this as fact. Regardless he had hard numbers for this at least.



JSG87 on 29 November 2018

I honestly think the most likely deal here is that whoever from Nintendo wrote that PR statement didn't have access to all the figures. We'll find out soon enough!



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quickrick on 29 November 2018
JSG87 said:
He is literally saying that he has the data for a fact that the Switch sold at least 200K beforr black Friday. He is literally saying this as fact. Regardless he had hard numbers for this at least.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pr-switch-surpasses-wii-in-best-selling-nintendo-console-in-us-on-bf-cm-115-hw-over-2017.83690/page-21#post-15490240

This was benji last post

Also the idea Nintendo pr man just gave switch's LTD with out the full data is laughable. 



StarDoor on 29 November 2018
quickrick said:
JSG87 said:
He is literally saying that he has the data for a fact that the Switch sold at least 200K beforr black Friday. He is literally saying this as fact. Regardless he had hard numbers for this at least.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pr-switch-surpasses-wii-in-best-selling-nintendo-console-in-us-on-bf-cm-115-hw-over-2017.83690/page-21#post-15490240

This was benji last post

Also the idea Nintendo pr man just gave switch's LTD with out the full data is laughable. 

That "laughable" idea is also the consensus in the ResetEra thread. It's easy to call an idea laughable when you don't offer any alternatives. How much do you think Switch sold between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday, and how much do you think it sold in November before that point?



quickrick on 29 November 2018
StarDoor said:
quickrick said:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pr-switch-surpasses-wii-in-best-selling-nintendo-console-in-us-on-bf-cm-115-hw-over-2017.83690/page-21#post-15490240

This was benji last post

Also the idea Nintendo pr man just gave switch's LTD with out the full data is laughable. 

That "laughable" idea is also the consensus in the ResetEra thread. It's easy to call an idea laughable when you don't offer any alternatives. How much do you think Switch sold between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday, and how much do you think it sold in November before that point?

Its the consensus at resetera for 2 reasons people there think benji data>>> Nintendo data and they don't wanna believe any negative numbers till its 1000%  confirmed which why I can't  wait for the reactions when NPD comes out.



PAOerfulone on 29 November 2018
"Benji said: 
I have no idea what going on with that LTD number but I can tell you flat out right now with zero doubt that Switch sold more than 200k units prior to BF.

So it being under 1 million as of CM is impossible"

https://www.resetera.com/threads/pr-switch-surpasses-wii-in-best-selling-nintendo-console-in-us-on-bf-cm-115-hw-over-2017.83690/page-12#post-15458782
During Black Friday week of last year, the Switch sold ~473k according to VGC own estimates.
http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/43065/USA/

But here, Nintendo doesn't mention all of the week, just the 5 day period between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday and that the Switch this year increased last year's mark by 115%.
So, I'm just gonna assume that last year, it sold 400k within that same 5 day period, that would mean it sold 860k during that period this year, which is indeed, more than the Wii ever did within that span.

Now, let's remember, Benji said that the Switch sold more than 200k units is prior to Black Friday, but for this post, let's say it's exactly 200k. - That period would also include Thanksgiving, literally the day before Black Friday.
So, I'm just going to take a blind shot in the dark and say 50k of the Switch's sales over that 5 day period was on Thanksgiving. That would mean that it sold 810k during the 4 day period from Black Friday to Cyber Monday in addition to the 200k it sold before Black Friday.
That would put the Switch at 1.01 million with 5 days of sales to go and just above 1 million as of Cyber Monday like Benji implies.

Last year, sales for the Switch on the week after Black Friday fell by 37% from ~373k to ~297k.
Let's say that from that hypothetical 4 day period of 810k from Black Friday to Cyber Monday, sales fall 60%. That would bring sales of the remaining 5 days to 324k. That would bring the Switch's total US sales for November to ~1.32 million. But the actual number would have to be higher than that, since this is assuming the Switch sold exactly 200k prior to Black Friday, while Benji already emphasized that it sold more than that. So we're looking at a number that's closer to 1.4 million.
God Damn, that's a lot of math and statistics to consider that are almost entirely hypothetical. I think I'll just wait for NPD.


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StarDoor on 29 November 2018
quickrick said:
StarDoor said:

That "laughable" idea is also the consensus in the ResetEra thread. It's easy to call an idea laughable when you don't offer any alternatives. How much do you think Switch sold between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday, and how much do you think it sold in November before that point?

Its the consensus at resetera for 2 reasons people there think benji data>>> Nintendo data and they don't wanna believe any negative numbers till its 1000%  confirmed which why I can't  wait for the reactions when NPD comes out.

If you're so confident, then why can't you answer my simple questions?

1) How much did Switch sell before Thanksgiving?
2) How much did Switch sell between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday?