This 100%! However, it doesn't stop this website from continuing to push it's narrative and push this as an article on the front page as if reliable. Any thing for a click these days..

Superdata claims that Nintendo sold 2.4 million units in the first month Switch launched.

Nintendo official sales puts that number at 2.74 million.

That's just one example.And yeah, the example above was after march was done.Pretty sure after I dig up more examples, there will be plenty of them

Sources:

https://venturebeat.com/2017/04/14/superdata-nintendo-sells-2-4-million-switch-consoles-worldwide-in-first-month/

http://gamesmea.com/nintendo-switch-sells-2-74-million-units-first-month/

Dont get me wrong, AC digital sales will be bonkers, but SuperData will never be accurate, and will always miss their number, either be lowballing it or overestimating it.

Any company doing estimations, especially for after the facts numbers, a 12% difference is huge.But again, as I said before, this is just one example of many.That's why NPD is so respected, because their estimations are extremely accurate.If they were 5% off or anything like that, companies would stop paying them, because innacurate data is useless.

Took this from resetera(they have used official sources):

"Here's one reason I have a hard time believing any of their numbers: according to them during Q3 (July-September) 2018 PlayStation Now brought in $143mil (link https://www.gamesindustry.biz/artic...brought-in-usd143-million-last-quarter-report), or on average $47.6mil a month. Back then the most expensive PlayStation Now subscription was $20/month, meaning that even if everyone was using that subscription (obviously unlikely, many people will sign up for 3 months or a full year because that's way cheaper on a monthly basis) Now would have had at least about 2.38mil paying subscribers according to them. Then for the fiscal year ending March 31 2019 Sony revealed that PlayStation Now had about 700k subscribers, meaning Superdata overestimated the amount of subs Now by over 200%. I'm sorry, but that's laughable."

There is also the Epic Games estimation about fortnite revenue, which Epic just outright said they were wrong:

https://www.gamepressure.com/newsroom/epic-games-on-fortnites-revenue-drops-the-data-is-inaccurate/zb18a1

Again, there are more examples of after the fact estimations that were completely wrong, but Im not going to do your job for you.

Plus their own estimations(the before the fact ones) are simply stupid too.Remember them predicting that the Siwtch would sell only 5 millions in 2017 back in march of that year.Good times.

Edit: Oh, they are also claiming that Doom Eternal digital sales were 3 million units in March.That's supposidelly without counting physical sales.Doom Eternal landed on number 6 on NPD charts in march.No way in fucking hell it did that well digitally while physically it did meh.If that were true, Bethesda wouldn't stop talking about that.Just another example of Superdata bullshit numbers.

You guys really don't know do you?

COD sels 6-8 million in one month (actually a few weeks) in US alone lmao

Thinking AC comes even close to COD is laughable.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-12-07-halo-4-sold-3-2m-in-us-during-november

7.5 million opening month for BO2 in US alone. This does not include digital, its only recently NPD had access to digital.

COD MW already holds the best digital opening on PS4 and with Activision.

So yeah, COD in US alone > AC WW

Your link doesn't contradict SuperData's claim. Also, how big is Modern Warfare's digital opening? It's nice to hear is the biggest so far on PS4 and for Activision, but that tells nothing. 

I don't doubt there's a bigger opening than New Horizon's, but you personally haven't proved it. 

How did you get this far in the thread without understanding the title? According to Superdata, Animal Crossing sold 5 million in digital copies alone. Add in what it sold physically, and it well exceeds your US CoD numbers. It might even exceed CoD's worldwide numbers, given what Superdata reported last year about MW:

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-11-25-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-sold-4-75m-digital-units-in-its-launch-month

MW sold 4.75 million versus AC's 5 million, and MW launched on consoles with much higher digital attach rates.

You dont like Animal Crossing beating COD? 

Please provide me a source for when NPD was off 12% on any of their data, because I dont remember.

Im just saying that SuperData has a gigantic history of being wrong.Animal Crossing will be huge in terms of sales.Honestly I fully expect it to cross 10 million units sold when Nintendo announces it at the investor meeting, but 5 million just digitally is way too much, regardless of the existing chaos out there(especially since most people that bought day one had a pre order ready and I doubt that was affected, not to mention that if Japan sales are anything to go by, physical sales are doing just fine).

Give ourselves 2 more weeks, and we will have the official numbers.And Im pretty sure Superdata will be wrong, one way or another.

I had no intention of buying it, at least not right away. Once I had to work from home, I bought it digitally day one...on a whim, and have played it way more than I would have guessed.

ACNH FTW!