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Forums - Sales Discussion - December NPD 2020: Switch 2.1 million, PS5 800K, XBS 700K

RolStoppable said:
UnderwaterFunktown said:

I'm suprised there were even enough PS4s stockpiled heading into the holiday for it to beat the PS5 in units. One would assume that Sony has been putting all their focus into shipping PS5s since its release and I was under the impression that the PS4's terrible performance in October was due to low stock. I suppose maybe it wasn't.

I've not seen such a statement for December. Piscatella made a statement about the PS5 having higher revenue than the PS4 in the whole of 2020, but the PS4 sold more units, and I think that is what Marth relayed.

Yea looking at the original posts you're right. I just misunderstood Marth there. In that case there's nothing too suprising about that statement, and unless otherwise is revealed I would assume PS4 and Xbone had a very weak holiday.



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So Switch managed to perform slightly better than last year without Pokemon. Sheesh. Can't wait for total numbers on Feb 1st i think



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The regular Switch has been short supplied in the USA. Numbers could have been better.



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2 million is 2 million. No matter which way you slice it, that's huge!



Animal Crossing was the #1 title on Switch for December. That means the "big holiday title" launched in March. 3D All Stars ranked #3 and AoC ranked #5. This confirms what people have been saying all along which is that Switch didn't really have a big holiday title. The fact that Switch sold over 2m in December is a testament to just how strong those evergreens are.



The_Liquid_Laser said:

Animal Crossing was the #1 title on Switch for December. That means the "big holiday title" launched in March. 3D All Stars ranked #3 and AoC ranked #5. This confirms what people have been saying all along which is that Switch didn't really have a big holiday title. The fact that Switch sold over 2m in December is a testament to just how strong those evergreens are.

Yep, we called it out at the start of the year way before COVID.

New Horizon was enough for the Switch to be flat YoY, simply because it brings new demographics to the device. Now COVID actually expanded demand and we ended up with probably a record breaking year for a single platform WW. As the Wii/DS were kinda of concentrated on a few big markets - compare that to the Switch which sold 1 million units in China which was barely a blip back in the Wii/DS days. Seeing 150% Growth YoY in Other Territories(East Asia + Australia) and Developing markets like Central/Latin America, Eastern Europe etc is what will make it a record breaking year and things are likely to repeat in 2021 as Nintendo enters even more markets(Thailand being the next one)

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noshten said:
The_Liquid_Laser said:

Animal Crossing was the #1 title on Switch for December. That means the "big holiday title" launched in March. 3D All Stars ranked #3 and AoC ranked #5. This confirms what people have been saying all along which is that Switch didn't really have a big holiday title. The fact that Switch sold over 2m in December is a testament to just how strong those evergreens are.

Yep, we called it out at the start of the year way before COVID.

New Horizon was enough for the Switch to be flat YoY, simply because it brings new demographics to the device. Now COVID actually expanded demand and we ended up with probably a record breaking year for a single platform WW. As the Wii/DS were kinda of concentrated on a few big markets - compare that to the Switch which sold 1 million units in China which was barely a blip back in the Wii/DS days. Seeing 150% Growth YoY in Other Territories(East Asia + Australia) and Developing markets like Central/Latin America, Eastern Europe etc(I've actually seen ads for the Switch locally and East Europe is mainly PC/Sony Land) is what will make it a record breaking year and things are likely to repeat in 2021 as Nintendo enters even more markets(Thailand being the next one)

Yup, I noticed that Nintendo now is stronger than ever in "RoW". The only "big" market left now is India iirc



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