Mister Megative
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Did I make it in time for the "Switch sold 906k in March, Nintendo is doomed" bullshit?
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Nintendo Switch Was the Best-Selling Video Game System in April; Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
- Thread starter ggx2ac
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¿que? It's not meeting demand and they are having problem with supplying, do you really believe demand is lower than supply already?
Principate
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Large drop off though those were during Christmas. (They did 800-900kish).
CaviarMeths
Member
Well, I kinda want to buy a Switch, so if you're suggesting that there's a whole bunch of them sitting on store shelves unsold, hook me up.
Screams supply constraints. 280k for USA, 220k for Japan I'd predict another 250k for whole of Europe/ROW. That's much less than a million
Their second month was Christmas, so no point even comparing them
This was the big shipments for 11th May, we are now back to stock problems.
It's looks like they haven't been able to let improved production numbers come through in April, since these numbers are really low. From what we know from Japan and anecdotally from the Switch stock thread floating around, things don't seem to have improved a lot yet, but maybe in 30 minutes we will find out Nintendo has shipped to Japan, and are starting to show the extra production in meaningful ways? Let's hope it's the case at least.
The ratio is close to that of the first month, so ROW is probably closer to USA than Japan, so slightly over 250k is my guess.
Mister Megative
Banned
AH, THERE it is. Nintendo is doooooooooooooomed.
Was 3DS sold out everywhere too in its second month? Unless it was this wouldn't really be a fair comparison.
MannyToons
Member
Also have yet to see one in any retailer. These stock issues need to be resolved quick!
tkscz
Member
Then please, be my guest and find one. I sure the hell can't.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Sure, but I was more curious of how many they could ship.
FreedomFighter
Member
Wish we got numbers for Zelda.
OrbitalBeard
Member
Hopefully the stock issues are fixed by the end of this month. The system could have easily sold double that amount in April if they had more units to sell.
Actually this is a very good point. Part of the potential 1m a month shipments were potentially rushed in during March.
Don't forget MK8 came end of April maybe they strategically kept some produced units for later.
edit: yeah good point also the above...
impossible, can't up the production so soon, at best we can expect 400-600k per month for US which I don't think it will be enough to meet demand 100%.
KillerMan91
Member
194k. It was fully in stock though (sold only 98k units in May..)
LordOcidax
Member
This is the big news here.
I think PS4 held on with another million or so after it's first month was 2-3 million, but keep in mind that those were released during holiday periods where a large stock was to be expected. Short sighted as it may have been on Nintendo's part, I don't think they or anyone could have expected demand to be as strong as it was on a March-April period.
Savantcore
Unconfirmed Member
Honest question; why are Nintendo having issues keeping up with demand? Sony and Microsoft didn't have this problem, or at least not as bad, did they?
Skittzo0413
Member
I'm actually just curious about their relative production capacity to be honest. We've been hearing about Japan Display having financial trouble and that may indicate there is some bottleneck in production of Switches which hasn't been fixed as of March-April.
Which would be a big problem if true.
Gotcha, thanks.
I haven't really been following the stock threads or whatever since I already got mines, but my friend says that if he really wanted to get a Switch, he could easily buy one online from like Amazon or whatever and this is easily done if you're twitter game is on point or something.
For people still looking, is this actually true or is he talking out his ass?
For people still looking, is this actually true or is he talking out his ass?
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
oh wow 3DS tanked.
Little Monser
Banned
why is everyone ignoring the fact that Mario Kart sold like half a million in like 2 days of sale?
To be fair...releasing a new console in March after the colossal failure of the Wii U I would probably plan to ship conservatively as well just in case it didn't catch on immediately.
Wii U literally just had boxes sitting on shelves right after first two launch months so they probably got burned to some extent during that.
And_Gignac
Member
Then they are really fools if they are unable to produce and ship more than 300k consoles a month in the US.
UnemployedVillain
Member
Well you'd be wrong then
Interfectum
Member
Joe Shlabotnik
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OrbitalBeard
Member
1. Sony and MS are much larger corporations
2. Wii U was a colossal disaster for Nintendo
3. Nintendo is a very conservative company in general
mindatlarge
Member
Given how hard it is to find a Switch at retail, one has to wonder what the April numbers would look like if supply wasn't an issue.
SinCityAssassin
Member
June being E3 month and an actual brand new title means they better pick up the manufacturing pace.
Skittzo0413
Member
Honestly? It's because they used planes to fly over more
Stock in March. A large chunk of that shipment would have been here in April instead. They over extended themselves so in many ways, unless they flew more over again, it was predictable stock would be lower. May should be back to
Their normal stock levelss.
Stock in March. A large chunk of that shipment would have been here in April instead. They over extended themselves so in many ways, unless they flew more over again, it was predictable stock would be lower. May should be back to
Their normal stock levelss.
Gotdatmoney
Member
The system was weak everywhere but Japan. I dunno why everyone forgets this
Well we know their original shipment target was 2 million for March, and they ended up doing 2.72 million. I doubt they were actually about to increase manufacturing to any significant degree in less than a month so that increase was most likely due to quicker logistics (supplying by air rather than 6 weeks on a boat). Lower shipments in April is the end result as they said they stopped doing the air shipping.
Oh wait, sorry, I mean it's totally due to artificial scarcity. Yep, that's it.
Yeah...but WiiU didnt launch with Zelda and had Mario Kart 2 months in. They really underestimated the impact of their first party offerings this time.
This Holiday season will be crazy.
This has nothing to do with the issue at hand - Sony and ;MS consoles had shortages in the past after launch.
LordOcidax
Member
Holidays is going to be a nightmare for Nintendo if they don't solve this supplies issues. More than 1 million out there already, the word of mouth of this thing is insane. Nintendo fix this ASAP.
RavageDark
Member
This is what people keep ignoring.
Anyone expecting Nintendo to put out an abundance of Switches after their last system was a flop are a bit naive.