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Forums - Sales - Global Hardware 25 April 2020 - Switch Sales Soar

curl-6 on 02 May 2020
Bofferbrauer2 said:
Radek said:

I wouldn't consider selling 4 times less than PS4 a decent third place.

Not in absolute numbers, that's true.

But the Xbox is holding pretty well this year. pS4 is down quite a lot already compared to last year, but the XBO is just slightly below it's last year performance.

When your sales are much higher to begin with there's more room to fall. I certainly wouldn't call 52k in a week "decent", especially when your competitors are well over 200k.



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Brakfast on 02 May 2020

Does the xbox hardware sales have a source?



Bofferbrauer2 on 03 May 2020
curl-6 said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:

Not in absolute numbers, that's true.

But the Xbox is holding pretty well this year. pS4 is down quite a lot already compared to last year, but the XBO is just slightly below it's last year performance.

When your sales are much higher to begin with there's more room to fall. I certainly wouldn't call 52k in a week "decent", especially when your competitors are well over 200k.

Did I really need to add an percentage-wise?

PS4 is down almost 30% YoY, but the XBO only somewhat over 5%. That's a pretty good hold, and thus comparatively rather decent sales.



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curl-6 on 03 May 2020
Bofferbrauer2 said:
curl-6 said:

When your sales are much higher to begin with there's more room to fall. I certainly wouldn't call 52k in a week "decent", especially when your competitors are well over 200k.

Did I really need to add an percentage-wise?

PS4 is down almost 30% YoY, but the XBO only somewhat over 5%. That's a pretty good hold, and thus comparatively rather decent sales.

It may only be down 5% but when you're still only at 52k that's not what I'd call decent. Decent would be if it was at like 100k.



DonFerrari on 04 May 2020
Shiken said:
newwil7l said:

Well to be fair no one anticipated that AC would become the biggest killer app on the Switch. It really took everyone by surprise.

This is true, but at this point any traditional Nintendo IP on Switch is fair game to blow up.  Nintendo's audience has clearly expanded with the Switch as it seems like business as usual for 1st party IPs to explode past all previous entries when it comes to sales (unless said IP was already astronomical to begin with, like Mario).  Even Luigi's Mansion sales were a suprise to me, as the other two games did not sell near as much.

Despite sales performance from the past, I would not be suprised in the least if Metroid Prime 4 takes off as well.  Maybe not AC numbers of course, but way more than the sales of the first three games would suggest.

Both Nintendo and Sony IPs sequels this gen (and also several new IPs) have soared in sales, it have been incredible and exciting since I think they are of much higher quality than the usual multisellers like CoD and Fifa.



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LatiosGames on 04 May 2020

for this generation look at the run away successes you got games like GTA V and Minecraft (yes they started last generation but have grown a ton through this gen). The Last of us is the best selling sony game and it was a similar case to the other two god of war and spider man have done good though not as good as some switch games as they have started creeping into the top 50 and the switch is only 3 years old.



zorg1000 on 07 May 2020

is there a reason Switch sales got adjusted down?



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S.Peelman on 07 May 2020

Being up 50% YoY is pretty epic. I'm not expecting it but imagine that number holding all year.



peachbuggy on 07 May 2020
zorg1000 said:
is there a reason Switch sales got adjusted down?

If anything it should be adjusted up!



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curl-6 on 07 May 2020
zorg1000 said:
is there a reason Switch sales got adjusted down?

Yeah 100k down seems weird when it's selling out almost everywhere and was at 55.77m as of the end of March. Did Nintendo give a sell-through number, I missed it if so?