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PDiddy on 17 January 2021

I'm sure most of you have seen Nintendo's Fiscal Year Ended March 2020 pdf, and I'm sure you saw this chart:

What I would like to know is if anyone has pixel counted this chart to get accurate values for Europe and North America. I myself have a rough estimate for the sales to pixel ratio, which is 13k per pixel, but I want others' input.



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dmillos on 17 January 2021

Hi @PDiddy I did some fun super zoom and created vector lines to measure each bar, There seems to be a 0.95% average margin of error between my totals and the totals on the image (but this can be simply because of the rounding of the numbers). It really doesn't seem too different, but these are the values that I get:

2019 2020 Total 2020 Main 2020 Lite
Japan North America Europe Japan North America Europe Japan North America Europe Japan North America Europe
Apr-Jun 512,324 741,854 510,025 Apr-Jun 466,724 878,653 649,889 Apr-Jun 466,724 878,653 649,889 Apr-Jun 0 0 0
Jul-Sep 601,607 832,670 650,272 Jul-Sep 1,016,601 1,016,601 786,304 Jul-Sep 786,304 834,586 697,021 Jul-Sep 230,297 182,015 89,283
Oct-Dec 1,705,575 3,639,530 2,580,778 Oct-Dec 1,983,387 4,097,824 2,901,891 Oct-Dec 1,201,298 2,857,058 2,210,618 Oct-Dec 782,089 1,240,766 691,273
Jan-Mar 926,168 1,202,830 788,603 Jan-Mar 1,522,410 1,707,107 1,062,200 Jan-Mar 651,421 1,109,716 789,369 Jan-Mar 870,989 597,392 272,831
Year 3,800,000 6,350,000 4,490,000 Year 5,060,000 7,670,000 5,370,000 Year 3,105,747 5,680,012 4,346,897 Year 1,883,374 2,020,173 1,053,387

This is what the sheet looks like:

and this is the recreated graph comparison:

Not sure if this was what you are looking for, but it was fun doing it. Hopefully we get similar values



DAMA (Month Aligned) Gap Charts Explanation

Switch Data Analysis: May Update (NS has record best May Year 5)

PS5 Data Analysis: OCT Update (PS5 Second best console after 12 Months)

XS Data Analysis: APR Update (XS hits a road bump)

PDiddy on 17 January 2021
dmillos said:

Hi @PDiddy I did some fun super zoom and created vector lines to measure each bar, There seems to be a 0.95% average margin of error between my totals and the totals on the image (but this can be simply because of the rounding of the numbers). It really doesn't seem too different, but these are the values that I get:

2019 2020 Total 2020 Main 2020 Lite
Japan North America Europe Japan North America Europe Japan North America Europe Japan North America Europe
Apr-Jun 512,324 741,854 510,025 Apr-Jun 466,724 878,653 649,889 Apr-Jun 466,724 878,653 649,889 Apr-Jun 0 0 0
Jul-Sep 601,607 832,670 650,272 Jul-Sep 1,016,601 1,016,601 786,304 Jul-Sep 786,304 834,586 697,021 Jul-Sep 230,297 182,015 89,283
Oct-Dec 1,705,575 3,639,530 2,580,778 Oct-Dec 1,983,387 4,097,824 2,901,891 Oct-Dec 1,201,298 2,857,058 2,210,618 Oct-Dec 782,089 1,240,766 691,273
Jan-Mar 926,168 1,202,830 788,603 Jan-Mar 1,522,410 1,707,107 1,062,200 Jan-Mar 651,421 1,109,716 789,369 Jan-Mar 870,989 597,392 272,831
Year 3,800,000 6,350,000 4,490,000 Year 5,060,000 7,670,000 5,370,000 Year 3,105,747 5,680,012 4,346,897 Year 1,883,374 2,020,173 1,053,387

Not sure if this was what you are looking for, but it was fun doing it. Hopefully we get similar values

My values are a little higher. What I did was use MC numbers from 2018 (the tracker Nintendo uses for JPN data), and simply ultra zoomed in in paint to count the pixels. After doing this, I calculated that each pixel is about 13,000 units.

Here are my values for CY 2019 for NA and EU:

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
EU 780,000 676,000 806,000 2,938,000
NA 1,222,000 897,000 1,027,000 4,160,000
Last edited by PDiddy - on 17 January 2021

dmillos on 18 January 2021
PDiddy said:

My values are a little higher. What I did was use MC numbers from 2018 (the tracker Nintendo uses for JPN data), and simply ultra zoomed in in paint to count the pixels. After doing this, I calculated that each pixel is about 13,000 units.

Here are my values for CY 2019 for NA and EU:

Q1Q2Q3Q4
EU780,000676,000806,0002,938,000
NA1,222,000897,0001,027,0004,160,000

Awesome, we have very similar values, here is the comparison:

North AmericaQ1Q2Q3Q42019
Dmillos1,202,830878,6531,016,6014,097,8247,195,908
PDiddy1,222,000897,0001,027,0004,160,0007,306,000
Diff19,17018,34710,39962,176110,092

Obviously there are too many items that cause some margin of error, but I think that in general this is pretty close.

Now the question is how much does this compare to the numbers on VGChartz. It seems that USA is at 6,479,134 for 2019, that is pretty different from our pixel analysis.

For Japan I have 4,392,880 while VGChartz is at 4,461,503 which is extremely close.

Maybe the difference is VGChartz only has USA while Nintendo counts USA+Mexico+Canada and that is why is so much less here.



DAMA (Month Aligned) Gap Charts Explanation

Switch Data Analysis: May Update (NS has record best May Year 5)

PS5 Data Analysis: OCT Update (PS5 Second best console after 12 Months)

XS Data Analysis: APR Update (XS hits a road bump)

PDiddy on 18 January 2021
dmillos said:
PDiddy said:

My values are a little higher. What I did was use MC numbers from 2018 (the tracker Nintendo uses for JPN data), and simply ultra zoomed in in paint to count the pixels. After doing this, I calculated that each pixel is about 13,000 units.

Here are my values for CY 2019 for NA and EU:

Q1Q2Q3Q4
EU780,000676,000806,0002,938,000
NA1,222,000897,0001,027,0004,160,000

Awesome, we have very similar values, here is the comparison:

North AmericaQ1Q2Q3Q42019
Dmillos1,202,830878,6531,016,6014,097,8247,195,908
PDiddy1,222,000897,0001,027,0004,160,0007,306,000
Diff19,17018,34710,39962,176110,092

Obviously there are too many items that cause some margin of error, but I think that in general this is pretty close.

Now the question is how much does this compare to the numbers on VGChartz. It seems that USA is at 6,479,134 for 2019, that is pretty different from our pixel analysis.

For Japan I have 4,392,880 while VGChartz is at 4,461,503 which is extremely close.

Maybe the difference is VGChartz only has USA while Nintendo counts USA+Mexico+Canada and that is why is so much less here.

Yeah, that's why. Europe was the one I was most curious about since we have such little data from the region as a whole. NA was interesting; it seems like it is mainly USA and Canada making up the total. I also wanted Europe so I could do a more apples to apples comparison for my shipments prediction. It seems like UK makes up 18% of the EU total comparing yearly totals. Applying that same figure to the known UK figures gives us around 7.93 million for EU sell-thru.



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PDiddy on 18 January 2021

I also did the pixel counting on the bar chart in the 6 months ending September 2020 Earnings Release. https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2020/201105_5e.pdf
The figures I got for 2020 CYQ2 were 4.54 million and for CYQ3 4.235 million.



Dulfite on 18 January 2021

This is the most nerd-tastic thread I've ever seen on VGChartz and I love it!

Standard nerds, the lot of you!