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SuperData: Nintendo sells 2.4m Switch consoles in 1st month; above original forecast
- Thread starter axisofweevils
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LelouchZero
Member
Wow that's awesome!
Hero of Legend
Member
Thankfully Nintendo managed to squeeze out an extra 400k then! And to think Nintendo likely weren't even sure they'd make it to 2m in March in sales!
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Nintendo really is getting back on top
Jonneh3003
Banned
Wowsers.
Wii U shipped (not sold) between 2.5-3m in it's first 6 weeks (thanks for the fix Weekev)
Great for a March launch!
Wii U shipped (not sold) between 2.5-3m in it's first 6 weeks (thanks for the fix Weekev)
Great for a March launch!
Hellwarden
Member
That's a really good start.
Congrats to Nintendo.
Congrats to Nintendo.
Yeah I think it will be closer to 10 than 7.
Tom Nook Sawyer
Member
Am I misremembering, or wasn't SuperData's accuracy brought into question with the last thread about them and Switch sales?
Jonneh3003
Banned
Oh my bad, I'll fix that when I find the full number
Skittzo0413
Member
Great news if true!
Although if that WSJ report of Nintendo doubling production to 16m for FY17 is accurate, I'd think 7.2m for this year is a bit low. I wouldn't be surprised if it breaks 10m for 2017, almost certainly for FY17 (AKA by April 2018).
Although if that WSJ report of Nintendo doubling production to 16m for FY17 is accurate, I'd think 7.2m for this year is a bit low. I wouldn't be surprised if it breaks 10m for 2017, almost certainly for FY17 (AKA by April 2018).
NinjaCoachZ
Member
But.... Guys.... This doesn't mean anything... The Switch is still doomed to bomb Wii U numbers... Guys.....
The Switch did all this in March while Wii U needed to do that in two holiday months to boot.
sixteen-bit
Member
Congrats on the early success
Skittzo0413
Member
The Wii U was also far less supply constrained I believe. I remember seeing boxes of them in my local Gamestop the week after launch.
More like getting back in the game. Still, that's a great first month if true. I think the system has a good chance to remain consistent for the rest of the year. It will also do great in the holidays.
Not yet, I need 2017 to pan out and damn near outsell the Wii U to say that.
Looking good Nintendo! And with the MK8D -> Arms -> Splatoon 2 back to back releases they should keep good momentum too. I hope some publishers are paying attention too.
They weren't questioning the metrics outside of the US, they didn't believe it would mean anything for North America.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
It does seem a little low. Of course they can't keep up the rate from the first month, but this would make the 9 remaining months of the year each about 22% of the first month. Some significantly less, if there's to be any holiday bump.
Gotdatmoney
Member
7.2 million for the year? Naw, looking closer to 10 million.
Full numbers in the same article you linked was 2.5-3 mil in first 6 weeks. Switch will beat that but notably is launching in March rather than November and has been seriously supply restricted. It could actually beat WiiU in its first full year considering it has several big ticket releases and a holiday season to come.
AdventureRacing
Member
Whilst the comments pre release suggesting the switch would be a wii U level failure were ludicrous I think it can be easy to go too far the other way. The switch is the culmination of nintendos handheld and home console HW, if it doesn't utterly destroy the wii U in sales then that would be a disaster for Nintendo.
So far things are looking great but it has only been 1 month, things can change quickly.
Tom Nook Sawyer
Member
I'm a bit confused; what do you mean by this?
Skittzo0413
Member
I wonder if that estimate is just going by Nintendo's currently announced 2017 lineup. If Pokemon gets announced for November, their forecast might jump up a good amount.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
3.06m Wii Us were shipped that quarter, but if they'd all sold I doubt the next three quarters would've been so low.
DecoReturns
Member
If they can get Mario and Pokemon for the holiday, Maybe they can get near 10 mil
supernate essentially throws numbers at the wall with their estimates
Finale Fireworker
Member
Nintendoes what Wii U don't.
Wait...
Wait...
AdventureRacing
Member
With how well Nintendo traditionally performs in the holidays that seems like a conservative estimate assuming the 2.4 million number is true. I think the switch potentially could come close to 7 million in NA and Japan alone by the end of 2017.
They aren't, numbers based on guesses.
Jonneh3003
Banned
Tom Nook Sawyer
Member
Are their sales figures accurate though?
$300 price point
Everyone moved from a console to mobile phones.
Some people don't know what they're talking about. The Switch is far from perfect but from the start it clearly was addressing the needs of a market these arguers didn't fit into and lacked the skill to understand.
GuitarGuruu
Member
Holy shit way to go Nintendo!
Jonneh3003
Banned
Two women in my class at Uni knew all about the Switch when we came back to my house to do group work. We ended up playing 1 2 Switch instead of working aha.
NOLA_Gaffer
Banned
Does anyone still think Nintendo is under shipping to fuel some sort of scarcity?