This was definitely a good week for Switch. I'll be curious to see if Nintendo continues to ship plenty of systems to Japan for the rest of December.

Which means I get to put out this image again because a mere Pac-Man isn't good enough. This is the mass of the sun compared to everything else in the Solar System, kind of the distribution of the Switch against the rest in the hardware space.

Were there not stock issues this time last year, as well? If there were, then that argument about 2021 would have beat 2020 may not be accurate. Covid started late 2019 in Asia and was in full force globally by like March/April 2020, so production everyone was decreasing rapidly around then. Without Covid, there would have been a lot more Switch's manufactured in 2020 and 2021, so we can't assume 2021 would be better if not for shortages since the same logic could be applied to 2020.

Jesus Christ could Sony really not have sent at least a bit of the stock they sent to Europe and NA to Japan instead? Same goes for Microsoft to a lesser extent but jeez PS5 should be over 10k but its under 2k. I wish Microsoft had sent a couple thousand more units this week since the XBS outselling the PS5 for a week would be pretty funny. Maybe that could still happen later.

So Sony shipped/will have shipped less than 1 million PS5s to Japan for 2021? Yikes

Holy ****! PS5 stock is shockingly low.
XBS could have outsold it if it had as much stock as the past few months.

Big Brain Academy sold less in it's launch week than the previous two games.
The DS entry sold 52,525 and the Wii entry sold 43,119. With digital it could have had the biggest launch in the series though. Since Clubhouse Games had 40% digital last year and Big Brain Academy is even cheaper and offers double gold points digital is very likely over 40%, which would put it at over 60k first week.

Almost half of the sold Switch SKUs are the OLED model. Great restock! I wonder when Nintendo's mentioned supply issues take place... January '22 I guess.

Looks like Sony and MS are prioritizing the US and EU for Christmas. My guess is they'll try to get more stock to Japan in time for New Years.

NSW passes 5 million for the year but 2020 will probably remain its peak in Japan. Still, insane numbers, and Nintendo basically have the country all for themselves.

The PS5 numbers

stop drinking appelkorn 2022>2021