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On VGChartz numbers will week January 2nd (I think the second) be accounted in the 2020 year or the 2021 year?



trunkswd said:
badskywalker said:

On VGChartz numbers will week January 2nd (I think the second) be accounted in the 2020 year or the 2021 year?

I won't know until I post the week ending January 2 sales. I am guessing it will be Week 53 for 2020. 

Thank you for the answer



Can we expect 700k-900k for the last week ?



SKMBlake said:

Can we expect 700k-900k for the last week ?

well for the last week you have already 300k+ in japan alone, an additionnal 600k for the rest of the world isn't that high for a demand.



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Great numbers for the switch, it is easy to get caught up and wish sales keep climbing indefinitely, but these numbers are extremely good. 

Also if these numbers don't get revised down considerably, then the switch will become the first console since the Wii in 2009 to sell over 1M for 5 consecutive weeks. The DS holds the record for selling over 1M for 6 consecutive weeks in 2007.

ConsoleYearWeeksTotal
DS200768,940,559
DS200858,585,269
Wii200856,418,551
Wii200957,579,410
Switch202057,055,058


dmillos said:

Great numbers for the switch, it is easy to get caught up and wish sales keep climbing indefinitely, but these numbers are extremely good. 

Also if these numbers don't get revised down considerably, then the switch will become the first console since the Wii in 2009 to sell over 1M for 5 consecutive weeks. The DS holds the record for selling over 1M for 6 consecutive weeks in 2007.

ConsoleYearWeeksTotal
DS200768,940,559
DS200858,585,269
Wii200856,418,551
Wii200957,579,410
Switch202057,055,058

next week might be another million seller.



Next target for Switch is the PSP at 81.09 million.

It won't take too long.



SKMBlake said:

Can we expect 700k-900k for the last week ?

heavenmercenary01 said:

next week might be another million seller.

Hopefully next week will also break records, but I find it very hard based on the numbers we saw from Famitsu about that week.

I looked back at last year and the global total was 466,030 out of which Japan had 216,512. 

Lets say that the world has as much of a growth as japan then we get (300K/217K = 139%) then the worldwide total would be around 644,281.

There is a big unknown this year compared to last year and that is how much China could represent. We will have to wait and see but it seems probable that the switch could be higher than 700k, It seems a little more unlikely that it could reach 1M but hopefully it will.



dmillos said:
SKMBlake said:

Can we expect 700k-900k for the last week ?

heavenmercenary01 said:

next week might be another million seller.

Hopefully next week will also break records, but I find it very hard based on the numbers we saw from Famitsu about that week.

I looked back at last year and the global total was 466,030 out of which Japan had 216,512. 

Lets say that the world has as much of a growth as japan then we get (300K/217K = 139%) then the worldwide total would be around 644,281.

There is a big unknown this year compared to last year and that is how much China could represent. We will have to wait and see but it seems probable that the switch could be higher than 700k, It seems a little more unlikely that it could reach 1M but hopefully it will.

Last year the same week was 926k, it's only shifted by one week because this is a 53 week year



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