Soul Hackers did horrible?

Amazing week for the Switch. Never underestimate the power of Splatoon.

Im sure Switch numbers will be above 90k for the rest of the year

+2.5 million in total by Dec 31st

Switch has built up a buffer of almost a million against 2019 YTD, hopefully enough to counterbalance that year having both the system's first mainline Pokemon and the Lite in the back half.

2019 is not getting close to 2022. 2022 is going to sell a few hundred thousand over it in total sales for the year. 2022 is at 2977k currently with 16 weeks left. We have to see how much over 4500k 2022 will be. 2022 will sense 3rd best year.

There is a possibility of near 200k happening next week in sales alone for example 

Top 30: https://nintendoeverything.com/famitsu-software-sales-8-29-22-9-4-22-top-30/

1. [NSW] JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R – 19,807 / NEW
2. [PS4] Earth Defense Force 6 – 15,036 / NEW
3. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 12,568 / 4,815,149
4. [NSW] Made in Abyss: Binary Star Falling into Darkness – 12,542 / NEW
5. [PS5] The Last of Us Part 1 – 10,954 / NEW
6. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports – 9,004 / 715,641
7. [NSW] Minecraft – 8,565 / 2,776,718
8. [NSW] SD Gundam Battle Alliance – 7,758 / 46,392
9. [PS4] Made in Abyss: Binary Star Falling into Darkness – 7,720 / NEW
10. [NSW] Kirby and the Forgotten Land – 7,246 / 876,792

11. [PS4] JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R – 7,032 / NEW
12. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure – 5,634 / 3,263,815
13. [NSW] Monster Hunter Rise + Sunbreak Set – 5,128 / 260,788
14. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 5,093 / 4,965,946
15. [PS5] Earth Defense Force 6 – 4,499 / 28,862
16. [PS4] Soul Hackers 2 – 4,370 / 35,974
17. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 3,993 / 7,321,626
18. [NSW] Mario Party Superstars – 3,978 / 1,031,218
19. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! – 3,733 / 2,711,644
20. [PS5] JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R – 3,721 / NEW
21. [PS4] SD Gundam Battle Alliance – 3,557 / 21,507
22. [NSW] eBaseball Powerful Pro Baseball 2022 – 2,897 / 226,304
23. [PS4] Saints Row – 2,828 / 12,841
24. [NSW] Splatoon 2 – 2,583 / 4,117,264
25. [NSW] Kirby’s Dream Buffet (Download Card) – 2,573 / 13,665
26. [NSW] Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 2,554 / 2,073,256
27. [NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics – 2,544 / 1,015,610
28. [NSW] Xenoblade Chronicles 3 – 2,363 / 164,353
29. [NSW] Live A Live – 2,201 / 116,668
30. [NSW] Pokemon Legends: Arceus – 2,001 / 2,289,807

NS - 21

PS4 - 6

PS5 - 3

The Switch version of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure has 80-100% sellthrough, the PS4 version has 60-80% and the PS5 version has only 40-60% sellthrough.

      Sales in thousands

Quarter 3 of 2022 is at 779k after 10 weeks, 1m for the quarter is a done deal maybe even 1.1m is possible. This would be a decent increase over last quarter and also a decent increase yoy over quarter 3 2021 which was 864k.

2022 Q1: 1358k - Q2: 840k - Q3: 779k after week 10 

2021 Q1: 1745k - Q2: 1256k - Q3: 864k - Q4: 1714k 

2020 Q1: 1700k - Q2: 967k - Q3: 1287k - Q4: 2003k

2019 Q1: 969k - Q2: 515k - Q3: 1035k - Q4: 1975k

2018 Q1: 671k - Q2: 497k - Q3: 595k - Q4: 1719k 

2017 Q1: 557k - Q2: 484k - Q3: 768k - Q4: 1598k 

On it's 6th year and the Switch still continues to impress! Keep that Splat 3 Hype train chuggin! Choo choo!

Thank you for posting this.  It's pretty clear that 2022's Q3 is going to easy beat 2021's Q3.  I think it's pretty obvious that it's going to come below 2020's Q3 as well.  The real question is if 2022 can beat 2019's Q3.  A few weeks ago, I would have said no way, because that is when the Switch Lite released.  However, Splatoon 3 is a monster and Nintendo seems to have taken care of it's supply issues for the OLED.  

It looks like 2022 has a good shot at having the second best Q3 for Switch.