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If the sales trend for Switch 1 doesn't change soon, it won't finish the year with more than 1.5M. Which will be crucial for the overall lifetime end total.

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XtremeBG said:

If the sales trend for Switch 1 doesn't change soon, it won't finish the year with more than 1.5M. Which will be crucial for the overall lifetime end total.

So, at least 2m in shipments! 

Regardless... If it keeps that trend trough the year, it will actually finish the year with more than that, close to 2m.

179k January

179k February

160k March

180k April (tomodachi life) 

135k May 

165k June 

135k July 

120k August 

150k September 

135k October 

190k November 

255k December 



Just too many outliers going against the Switch 1 at this point probably that are out of Nintendo's control. Trump tarrifs and AI memory shortage basically disallows price drops which will artificially slow down the sales the system should have even at this point in its product cycle.



tak13 said:
So, at least 2m in shipments! 

Regardless... If it keeps that trend trough the year, it will actually finish the year with more than that, close to 2m.

  • Sales are more than shipments at this point.. so no, it doesn't mean 2M in shipments. If it sells 1.5M it means around 1M of shipments.
  • At this point in Switch's life software doesn't boost hardware, so by April it's sales will probably be somewhere around 120-130k.

And no, if it keeps that downward trend it has, where it drops each following month and the % drop YOY remains 65% just like January and most notably the speed it is dropping with, it will sell less and less with each following month, with sales likely going under 100k per month by the summer till the holidays, with little to no boost in the holidays, resulting in year of sales with no more than 1.5M.

Quick example - January 2025 the Switch did 520k, by the summer Switch had months of almost half of that - 270k. If this happens this year, this will equal to 95k by June. Let alone the fact that so late in a system's life the drops only get bigger and bigger, and there are decent chances that the drops by the summer may be even bigger than that 50% of the first months of the year.

If we take the same 65% drop that it had this January YOY and apply it to the summer months, it again points to a number of around 90k.You can also look at it's weekly sales. They went from 60-70k per week before the holidays to 50k for the first two weeks of January to 40k the third week to just 30k in the last week of January. I know there were some shortages in Japan and the sales were so low there because of that, but even with the next week that the stock went back on Switch jumped only ~15k. So even with that the weekly sales will still be no more than 40k in February (if Japan sales maintain around 25k for the entire month which is very doubtful). Therefore the drop to 150-160k for February is very likely. And with dropping each next week, there won't be much time before it goes to 140k in March or 120K by April .. and yes 100k in May, going under that in the summer. In the end all of this adds up to a year of around 1.5M.

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We need to wait till May and see the 2026-2027 fisacl year forecast from Nintendo, then we will have an answer about when The Nintendo Switch should reach the 160M.



Soundwave said:

Just too many outliers going against the Switch 1 at this point probably that are out of Nintendo's control. Trump tarrifs and AI memory shortage basically disallows price drops which will artificially slow down the sales the system should have even at this point in its product cycle.

I know right,its unfair ps2 had so much for it and the switch has everything against selling more.

Switch could have easily destroyed the ps2 in sales if it didnt had so much against it and nothing in favor of it



 

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