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thestopsign
Member
Next games to beat are all around 600k: Spirit Tracks, OOT 3DS, and Twilight Princess.
Hmm Spirit Tracks is actually at 725k.
The Horror the horror
Banned
Let's not get crazy here.
But there's no "pre-Goldeen Week" boost. People buy games during the GW, not before (or after), it's not like Christmas where people start buying stuff early. Zelda sales are flat because Switch sales slightly increased this week. Same for Bomberman, though I'd say the good word of mouth (especially with update and DLC) is also helping.
YW3 Sukiyaki already made a comeback in the Top 20 during Week 15 (same week Ver. 3.0 launched).
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Yeah it plays a large part especially in the west. For the past 20 years the series has been in the shadow of OoT, and anyone invested in the series was hoping for a game eventually that would truly surpass it in reception. BotW was that game Zelda fans went from an interest to Nintendo having their attention. Also helps the Zelda was the literal progenitor of the current 3D open world craze.
Will mh be on PS4 with those kind of hardware sales
It would be for the west so this kind of PS4 number wouldn't matter
this is brilliant.
Europe and rest of the World hasn't gotten large shipments since launch. I mean there have been restocks in Germany, France, UK and Spain but they haven't been substantial. My guess is that the majority of the initial shipments are going to US and Japan with the rest of the markets getting a similar amount to what US is getting. My guess is that the US might be getting larger shipments than Japan but not substantially larger. What leads me to think this is the Switch stock situation thread and PAL threads(I'm guessing weekly UK is getting between 5-10K and likely similar shipments are being made in other EU countries with France and Germany being around 10K).
With the launch of MK8D I'm thinking that Switch could be close to 4 million beginning of May if Nintendo has managed to ship that many consoles in the first two months. I'm going to predict something in the region of 500-650K for the April NPD, 200-300K in Europe and 400-450K in Japan for April. It really does depend on whether they are able to ship that many consoles for the month of April but if they do I don't see a reason why the sales wouldn't be close to 1-1.5 million for April due to the MK8D launch.
I don't know how well Wave Race did. I was just labelling it as the secondary title that was good for multiplayer.
Maybe Snipperclips has probably done better than Bomberman in sales.
please make me #1 on that wall
(but wait for actual confirmation of Switch sales potential after the initial period)
Yeah, you could see the hype begin to build with the Zelda previews/EDGE 10. Even left joycon gate didn't really slow it down.
Though honestly the Switch reveal was good too, it was just a slightly below par January conference that dampened it a bit.
I don't really expect much digital sales, but at least that's 80k more to MHXX sales, which is about to approach 1.5M.
Herb Alpert
Banned
So Nvidia has finally found an utility to this Tegra chip, haven't they?
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Yeah it had a freaking great trailer no doubt about that. Up there with riddle of steel twilight princess and it didn't manage it by leaning heavily on nostalgia.
JonnyDBrit
Member
Depending on whether or not BoTW gets a boost from association with MK8D, it might be able to contest the titles at 600k by the end of May. If it doesn't really get a bump, then I do think the monthly sales will drop enough that it'll take some time into June or July.
MH5 discussion
Sound like a good idea. Whenever I check the thread I see the same fanboy driven MH topic.
From Capcom's recent comments regarding MH and the fact from this point forward mainline titles will be HD, I don't think it's worth speculating.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Nvidia are laughing all the way to the bank right now. Like this is serious cocaine party level. Nintendo have already said they'll be using this for the next decade at least (which is obvious for the backward compatibility reasons). The Tegra chip is set for a few decades.
Easy money.
Graphics Horse
Member
Just wait until Nintendo makes a QoL device that drives any road car for you by plugging in your Switch
I wonder if the relative popularity of the Switch in America and Europe could actually hinder it from beating the 3DS's first year in Japan. If the Switch continues to sell out everywhere, Japan is going to get a smaller percentage of shipments than they did with the 3DS, which is still far more popular in its native country than anywhere else.
If they actually doubled their production they should have plenty for Japan.
SporeCrawler
Member
oh cmon. they should be able to fix that stocking issue in the comming months.
IIRC it was Nvidia who stated that, not Nintendo.
ZSaberLink
Media Create Maven
Honestly that sounds like a good problem to have. As long as demand stays high, everything's going pretty well for the Switch imo.
JonnyDBrit
Member
Man, hadn't even thought about that. The fact that Nintendo is basically guaranteed to use their tech has me kinda excited; the Tegra X1 was clearly a case of using what was available, spares for a system that didn't fly off shelves. Any future Tegra may be outright made with Nintendo's use case as the top priority.
Very likely.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
It'll have an affect but by that point you'd hope Nintendo would have it's supply chain and stock management under control. I mean demand should be far easy to predict and they'd have the time towards the end of the year. it's pretty insane that the switch almost outsold 5 months of the 3Ds in the US though. If everything well, beating the 3DS's first year may well be possible.
is it though? The new 3ds xl is selling (well) for $170. 180 if you need an adapter. You really think it's a hard sell for the switch being 90-100 bucks more?
DarkLordMalik
Member
Interfectum
Member
Depends on supply probably.
I wouldn't say no chance... if they actually shipped that many, they'd all sell. But they almost certainly won't be able to.
Which is funny since the January conference highlighted well Nintendo's strategy for Switch.
they better do their best for the X2 for the next switch then, their mobile chips are tied with that console line from now on
Principate
Saint Titanfall
More than than 80k is very likely I mean there was that much stock available in a week a few weeks ago. For a major launch like this Nintendo would be trying to surpass that.
Yup. No chance. None, even if they have that stock. 0%.
Looking at the staff roll I'm not seeing any former Hudson staff. Though the Konami people heading the game are long time (> 2 decades) veterans with Kojima Productions background.
What does it mean "it won't make it to the DQXI launch"? Is Sony going to retire the console just on Japanese sales alone before DQXI comes out? PS4's going to slip on a banana and break its legs before reaching DQXi's time? Are there some assassins hidden nearby PS4's house ready to kill it once it tries to approach DQXI?
No, seriously, I don't comprehend the meaning of "making it" in this context XD
Principate
Saint Titanfall
It'll be fine just don't expect 30k+ salea from it any time soon.
Resistance100
Member
Well they managed to get up to 75K units for the splatoon trial I feel 100K during golden week is more than doable
3DS and PS4 are inseparable buddies as of late. It's gonna be fine.