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Forums - Sales Discussion - Global Hardware May 2-8 - Switch Sales Top 85 Million

EnricoPallazzo on 21 May 2021

Xbox cant pick up the pace, I thought the gap would bit a bit smaller at this point. I know there are shortage problems but so there is with PS5.



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curl-6 on 21 May 2021
eva01beserk said:
curl-6 said:

They forecast 18 million for the FY ending March 2020 but ended up shipping 21 million.

They initially forecast 19 million for the FY ending March 2021 but ended up moving 28.8 million.

Well that 2021 looks like crazzy lowball but remember thats when covid hit. Everything saw crazzy demand that nobody saw coming. 

They lowballed 2019 as well though, no pandemic then. 

Nintendo just prefer to underestimate then adjust upwards than risk the reverse, this has been their pattern for some time now.



Torpoleon on 22 May 2021

@curl-6 Yeah. Ever since Nintendo missed their 20M forecast for the FY ending March 31, 2019, they've definitely been lowballing. They got criticized for missing that target, but have now hit 20M twice in a row and almost certainly a 3rd time.