Mario Kart 8 sold 415k in its first two days for reference
And that came with a choice of a free game if people still remember.
Mario Kart 8 sold 415k in its first two days for reference
Mario Kart 8 sold 415k in its first two days for reference
And that came with a choice of a free game if people still remember.
How about this month? Has the first half of May been any better?
Not great to be honest.
And that came with a choice of a free game if people still remember.
why did MK8 come with a free game?
Anyone expecting Nintendo to put out an abundance of Switches after their last system was a flop are a bit naive.
Your numbers presented here are pretty useless, since Reggie said Switch outpaced the Wii in the Americas, and Switch will be currently around 3.5 million after 2 months, which compared favourable with the 5.84 million after 5 months for the Wii. It's what comes after the current numbers that is important.No. No, no, no, no.
If Nintendo wants to go all-out with their new console, they need to manufacture enough of them to fill market demand. Whether their previous console flopped or not is irrelevant.
THE most important thing for a console is to sell as many of them as possible, as early as possible, in order to create a market for the software.
According to Wikipedia:
- the Wii sold 600k in its first 8 days, in the Americas only.
- the Wii sold 3.19 million worldwide in its first 6 weeks (11/19/2006 to 12/31/2006).
- the Wii sold 5.84 million worldwide by the end of 1Q 2007.
- the Wii sold 20.13 million worldwide by the end of 2007.
THAT is what created the insane market for Wii software. And while Wii shortages seemed to be everywhere back then, look at these numbers of units! They were obviously cranking out as many as they could...over 20 million shipped and sold in the first 14 months of release.
This would not have happened if Nintendo lacked the confidence in their product to produce over 20 million of them in that first year. Now, I'm not going to pretend that the console market of 2017 is the same as that of 2007. But seeing that demand is strong worldwide, why should the Nintendo of today have significantly less confidence in Switch than they had in Wii?
No. No, no, no, no.
If Nintendo wants to go all-out with their new console, they need to manufacture enough of them to fill market demand. Whether their previous console flopped or not is irrelevant.
THE most important thing for a console is to sell as many of them as possible, as early as possible, in order to create a market for the software.
According to Wikipedia:
- the Wii sold 600k in its first 8 days, in the Americas only.
- the Wii sold 3.19 million worldwide in its first 6 weeks (11/19/2006 to 12/31/2006).
- the Wii sold 5.84 million worldwide by the end of 1Q 2007.
- the Wii sold 20.13 million worldwide by the end of 2007.
THAT is what created the insane market for Wii software. And while Wii shortages seemed to be everywhere back then, look at these numbers of units! They were obviously cranking out as many as they could...over 20 million shipped and sold in the first 14 months of release.
This would not have happened if Nintendo lacked the confidence in their product to produce over 20 million of them in that first year. Now, I'm not going to pretend that the console market of 2017 is the same as that of 2007. But seeing that demand is strong worldwide, why should the Nintendo of today have significantly less confidence in Switch than they had in Wii?
4:1 physical to digital on MK8?
Doesn't sound right.
Proof of this?Artificial shortage!
Then they are really fools if they are unable to produce and ship more than 300k consoles a month in the US.
What do you mean and?
The Switch wont be pulling a PS4. Or to even think it will is out of the question.
Especially this early.
No console will ever sell as much as the PS4. Id love to be proven wrong though. Nintendo needs a homerun.
I believe you're hugely underestimating the difference between Wii and Switch in terms of launch period (holidays vs march), riskiness (Wii was basically a TurboGC), actual cost of goods.THAT is what created the insane market for Wii software. And while Wii shortages seemed to be everywhere back then, look at these numbers of units! They were obviously cranking out as many as they could...over 20 million shipped and sold in the first 14 months of release.
No. No, no, no, no.
If Nintendo wants to go all-out with their new console, they need to manufacture enough of them to fill market demand. Whether their previous console flopped or not is irrelevant.
THE most important thing for a console is to sell as many of them as possible, as early as possible, in order to create a market for the software.
According to Wikipedia:
- the Wii sold 600k in its first 8 days, in the Americas only.
- the Wii sold 3.19 million worldwide in its first 6 weeks (11/19/2006 to 12/31/2006).
- the Wii sold 5.84 million worldwide by the end of 1Q 2007.
- the Wii sold 20.13 million worldwide by the end of 2007.
THAT is what created the insane market for Wii software. And while Wii shortages seemed to be everywhere back then, look at these numbers of units! They were obviously cranking out as many as they could...over 20 million shipped and sold in the first 14 months of release.
This would not have happened if Nintendo lacked the confidence in their product to produce over 20 million of them in that first year. Now, I'm not going to pretend that the console market of 2017 is the same as that of 2007. But seeing that demand is strong worldwide, why should the Nintendo of today have significantly less confidence in Switch than they had in Wii?
It's quite baffling to see so many people say that 280k is bad, especially since this the first time in SIX YEARS that a platform has been able to reach those numbers in the U.S.
3DS, Vita, Wii U, PS4, Xbox One. None of those have reached sales of 280k in April. Add in to this that Switch is supply constrained and this is a pretty good number. (whilst at the same time showing how much Nintendo needs to work to let supply catch up to the demand)
Get ready folks, come later this summer we'll be seeing the Switch take off in a way that the PS4 could only dream off.
They could only ship 280k units in the month of April?
Maybe you should send them your resume. You seem to be an expert on magically increasing supplies.
Lol, no you won't. But your "concern" has been noted.
Get ready folks, come later this summer we'll be seeing the Switch take off in a way that the PS4 could only dream off.
Its not magic it's a manufactured product. Nintendo is directly responsible for how many are ordered to be made and shipped.
Perhaps they'll ship more units to North America now that supply in Europe looks pretty healthy.
It is still sold out at Amazon.de as of 05.17.17. So it is nowhere near "pretty healthy"
It's so weird that people are acting like Nintendo are intentionally holding back or not making enough Switch consoles. It's the most daft thing ever. Only a finite amount can be built in a short time since the realised demand was high.
Its not magic it's a manufactured product. Nintendo is directly responsible for how many are ordered to be made and shipped.
Even just shipping from China to the US takes ~20 days. If they want to increase the production they need to open additional lines. They also need additional parts (screens, motherboards, ram, flash, X1's, ... etc). Some of these are custom made, so in that case their supplies would also need to do additional production/QA/shipment etc..
All this together means that if they decided to go for a higher production volume during march, you won't see a huge increase until summer.
Don't know where you are looking but in Belgium it's still sold out in most places (coolblue, bol.com, game mania). So is Amazon in DE, FR, UK and ES.Perhaps they'll ship more units to North America now that supply in Europe looks pretty healthy.
Switch First Two Months: 1186K
March: 906K
April: 280K
3DS First Two months: 592K
March: 398K
April: 194K
3DS First 6 months: 1175K
Wii U First 2 Months: 885K
Wii U First 6 Months: 1187K
Wii First 2 Months: 1080K
DS First 2 Months: 1225K
If you're going to steal this to put on Twitter please credit!
Your numbers presented here are pretty useless, since Reggie said Switch outpaced the Wii in the Americas, and Switch will be currently around 3.5 million after 2 months, which compared favourable with the 5.84 million after 5 months for the Wii. It's what comes after the current numbers that is important.
I remember that nintendo is a toy company and one of the strategies of a toy company is artificial shortages to create premium demand for the toy.
There's no middle ground on these switch threads. Either its going to fail, or it's going to put Wii to shame.
That is basically the point I was making. I was refuting the comment that said "they should be conservative because the Wii U flopped." No, no they shouldn't. Seeing this high demand, they need to double down, just as they did with Wii.
I don't believe Nintendo is hiding back stock. What would be the point in holding back stock for the holiday season? Isn't it more important to build up a base?
That is basically the point I was making. I was refuting the comment that said "they should be conservative because the Wii U flopped." No, no they shouldn't. Seeing this high demand, they need to double down, just as they did with Wii.
I would think all console makers do this to an extent. It's probably far cheaper and easier to hold back a percentage of all produced stock (1-2%?) over the year in order to have far higher shipments for the holidays than it is to just temporarily ramp up production in the months leading up to the holidays. That's just my speculation though, I don't know for sure.
I remember that nintendo is a toy company and one of the strategies of a toy company is artificial shortages to create premium demand for the toy.
I would think all console makers do this to an extent. It's probably far cheaper and easier to hold back a percentage of all produced stock (1-2%?) over the year in order to have far higher shipments for the holidays than it is to just temporarily ramp up production in the months leading up to the holidays. That's just my speculation though, I don't know for sure.