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Calling it now, it will be 80k and Japan will be in a civil war for switches.Switch stock better be over 200k when Splatoon 2 launches with they having a bundle and all that.
Calling it now, it will be 80k and Japan will be in a civil war for switches.Switch stock better be over 200k when Splatoon 2 launches with they having a bundle and all that.
Level 5 is weird like that. Remember Yokai Watch?It's not uncommon for mobile games to miss their date by a few months.
The Level-5 issue is that they miss their date by a few months six times in a row.
It looks like it started development about six months ago, so maybe they haven't decided all their target platforms yet.
IIRC, didn't Morita said that they have a Vita game for fall that would appeal to children?
Calling it now, it will be 80k and Japan will be in a civil war for switches.
It's weird that the Switch is still abundant in my country (SEA) but I keep hearing stories that it's not easily available in Japan and US.
To note, what quickly ran out of stock was NES Mini in my country.
Yeah 5000 units might create an excess in Australia/NZ/Smaller EU countries/Asian markets. But to the US or Japan, 'it was Tuesday'In smaller markets, exceeding demand comfortably is much closer to meeting demand and not meeting demand.
It takes a lot more to get Japan/US from failing to meet demand to meeting it and again to comfortably exceeding it and having an "abundant" device.
Bic Camera Yurakucho only had 54 Switch consoles this week for the lottery. The last week were 59 consoles and the week before (Arms launch) were 99.
As you can see, supply is still going down after Arms.
http://www.twitter.com/bic_yuurakuchou/status/880970020519460864
I just found on twitter the results from Week 21. They had 93 switches.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Yukinoshin78/status/868675042296512513
So, using the same sample this is what we have from Bic Camera Yurakucho's lotteries:
Week 21 (May 22 - May 28) - 93 switch consoles => Media Create: 27.146 sales
Week 22 (May 29 - Jun 4) - 84 switch consoles => Media Create: 23.524 sales
Week 23 (Jun 5 - Jun 11) - 83 switch consoles => Media Create: ¿? (22k?)
Still, tomorrow there're some lotteries in other stores. So we can't make conclusions with just one single store. Anyway I will try to check Bic Camera Yurakucho every week from now, let's see if we can find a pattern.
In the end, Week 23 saw sales returning over 27k, so I don't know if using this specific store as a stock index is reliable enough.
Definitely. But this store pointed the drop of this week, and everybody omitted it, and we were all disappointed.
Is Inazuma eleven another "obvious" third party game "obviously" coming to switch?
It makes a lot of sense for it to be coming to Switch, that's about as far as i'll go though!
This will sound harsher than I mean it to, but it looks a bit... visually simplistic to be a PS4 only game.
Not saying it's impossible, mind.
Compared to most PS4 games? For sure, I don't think anyone can disagree with that. But the system still has its fair share of more visually simple games, at retail and on the PSN Store, so it being PS4 only wouldn't shock me, and neither would it being multiplatform on the PS4/Switch, or a Switch only gameThis will sound harsher than I mean it to, but it looks a bit... visually simplistic to be a PS4 only game.
Not saying it's impossible, mind.
Definitely. But this store pointed the drop of this week, and everybody omitted it, and we were all disappointed.
Yo-kai Watch Switch will look dead drop gorgeous.
Kids are not prepared for the VISUAL that will be served to them.
This will sound harsher than I mean it to, but it looks a bit... visually simplistic to be a PS4 only game.
Not saying it's impossible, mind.
GBA, PS2 and 3DS are the only real competitors for Switch that have similar behavior since all of them launched at February/March.
~7m of software were sold for PS2 and 3DS at first year (retail + digital with didn't exist then, Switch numbers are only retail)
Definitely. But this store pointed the drop of this week, and everybody omitted it, and we were all disappointed.
Really curious just how big Switch/PS4 ends up being, going both ways, i.e. coming from 3DS successors and coming from PS4/PS3/Vita.
Ah OK LOL.I mean in WoM lol. Caligula had terrible WoM.
In smaller markets, exceeding demand comfortably is much closer to meeting demand and not meeting demand.
It takes a lot more to get Japan/US from failing to meet demand to meeting it and again to comfortably exceeding it and having an "abundant" device.
Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star TV ad (releasing one day before Splatoon 2) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPAXT5CB-ec
Fate/Extella Switch comes in at #2 that week behind Splatoon 2.Not sure if the most idiotic or brilliant release date.
Demand is pretty strong everywhere in Europe. Its sold out constantly in the Netherlands as well. I have yet to see some stock. Same goes for a lot of other European countries. Generally the smaller countries have stock leftovers.Or Switch just isn't as popular everywhere as it's in US and Japan? I mean you could find PS4 easily like two weeks after the launch in Japan in early march 2014 but at the same time even in smaller European countries it was completely sold out despite having launched months earlier.
Demand is pretty strong everywhere in Europe. Its sold out constantly in the Netherlands as well. I have yet to see some stock. Same goes for a lot of other European countries. Generally the smaller countries have stock leftovers.
If Nintendo shipped like million units a month globally I could believe that smaller markets having a stock is just symptom of the market sizes but when at the moment they barely ship 200k units a month in US and like 25k units weekly in Japan and yet some smaller markets have had Switch in stock pretty much since launch (for example in Nordics) that tells me that demand isn't just as strong everywhere. Switch isn't Wii. Demand for it is more concentrated to strong Nintendo markets.
Isnt the UK stock situation just as bad? Its constantly out of stock from what I read from thr stock thread. Following amazon it seems to be pretty popular everywhere except for Sweden Norway and Greece.It's breaking records in France, Spain, Netherlands. It's constantly out of stock in Belgium too for what I can tell. The only notable european market it's not selling particularly well is UK. It's a safe assumption to say that there's a lot of demand in Europe as well.
Isnt the UK stock situation just as bad? Its constantly out of stock from what I read from thr stock thread. Following amazon it seems to be pretty popular everywhere except for Sweden Norway and Greece.
It's breaking records in France, Spain, Netherlands. It's constantly out of stock in Belgium too for what I can tell. The only notable european market it's not selling particularly well is UK. It's a safe assumption to say that there's a lot of demand in Europe as well.
Isnt the UK stock situation just as bad? Its constantly out of stock from what I read from thr stock thread. Following amazon it seems to be pretty popular everywhere except for Sweden Norway and Greece.
I mean obviously demand changes from country to country in Europe but considering how tight the supply for Switch is globally it being available in some countries for weeks tells me that it isn't as global phenomenon as something like Wii. Also as for those records those were launch week records mostly if I remember right. It just shows that Nintendo had prepared decent amount of stock for launch. In Spain for example it broke the launch record of PS4 but in two weeks was already way behind (PS4 more than doubled its sales during second week in Spain). Of course you need decent demand too but launch records are more about available stock.
It has been out of stock in UK but that is mostly because how tiny the shipments are. PS4 sold 250k units first week and Switch most likely still hasn't passed even that in UK (In France it passed 250k units few weeks ago and France is strongest Nintendo market in Europe).
It's breaking records in France, Spain, Netherlands. It's constantly out of stock in Belgium too for what I can tell. The only notable european market it's not selling particularly well is UK. It's a safe assumption to say that there's a lot of demand in Europe as well.
Nintendo's at it again with their tourneys in Japan. They just announced the ARMS Japan Grand Prix 2017, to take place this autumn. 4 tourneys in 4 big cities, then grand finale to crown the national champion.
More details coming at later date, but I wouldn't be surprised if that tourney shared some dates and venues with the Splatoon Koshien 2018 (still no details on that one).
https://twitter.com/ARMS_Cobutter/status/881080357675687937
Honestly, should've seen it coming with how hard they're pushing the local multiplayer / competitive aspect on Switch (definitely a great move).
It has been out of stock in UK but that is mostly because how tiny the shipments are. PS4 sold 250k units first week and Switch most likely still hasn't passed even that in UK (In France it passed 250k units few weeks ago and France is strongest Nintendo market in Europe).
In France it's selling on par with the Wii, software included, according to Nintendo France's director. In Spain it's more or less doing the same too. I wasn't talking about launch records only. It's hard to tell for some markets since we only have launch numbers in some cases.
But the situation is definitely comparable to the Wii, more so than any other Nintendo consoles. It's having even less stock available than the Wii.
I don't think that's the right thread to talk about that though.
Nintendo of France restated 1m forecast until the end of the year which is on par with Wii.
As far as I remember Wii was in pretty short supply even year after the launch in countries like France. I can definitely see Switch outdoing Wii year one in selected countries (like France and Japan) but I think that will be mostly because after Nintendo gets its production in order they can ship more units to these selected markets as I don't see that global demand will stay anywhere near Wii levels.
No console can stay close to Wii level initial sales, but I don't see what makes Wii demand so much stronger at least in Japan and France where we have sales data.
We'll see after Q2 results if Switch shipments were comically low or just low.
So it doesn't get lost in the shareholder thread.
The Q&A is up from Nintendo's annual general shareholder meeting, the English version probably won't be up for a few days.
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2017/qa1706.pdf