Hydrargyrus
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Decent numbers. But it's important to see how it's going to perform during the next months
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GI.biz: Nintendo Switch sells 80,000 in the UK in its opening weekend
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80k, double the Wii U at a non-holiday period and poor market presence, is a really pleasant surprise, and while it isn't sold out "literally everywhere" like PS4 and Wii was, there still seems to be an evident scarcity of the console. I could see it having reached higher performance if they increased available units but I can't imagine Nintendo are all that disappointed by these numbers. Sustaining them are what's going to be the hard part moving onward. They ought to be aggressively pushing Zelda as a Switch sales incentive in a market that hasn't adopted the Wii U that much. Hopefully it'll be enough, and hopefully Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and the breadth of eShop/indie titles will do it good before the next big flagship title comes out.
Also neat that Super Bomberman R charted respectably.
Also neat that Super Bomberman R charted respectably.
Well, the Switch is expensive.. so who is the target for MK? Casuals, early adopters? It will sell well, but i doubt it will be a system seller.
axisofweevils
Holy crap! Today's real megaton is that more than two people can have the same first name.
Better than I expected considering its March and the UK economy is in the toilet right now due to brexit.
Not where I live. Game have loads of Switches and the local store near me had 20 just chilling. You can buy a Switch easily here.
Sometimes it's really hard to read stuff in this forum. So many console warriors. Even those threads that wasn't suppose to have one, it will suddenly become infested when 1 poster posted shit.
What do you expect from a thread about sales numbers?
Probably there are people who don't feel the need to play Zelda immediately and will buy a Switch when more games are available.
Eeeeh.....MK is a LOT bigger than the best selling Zelda.
PapaJustify
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Would like to see German numbers. The Switch sold out almost everywhere in my area, and lots of people in the store lining up for the next shipment at the retailers. It feels like Nintendo could have sold twice as much units here in Germany than they probably did.
PSFan
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Yes, but its a port of an MK game, not a new entry. It remains to be seen how well it will do.
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At 40k I doubt it did unless Nintendo barely bothered to ship any any or retailers barely bothered to order any.
because appeals to a wider audience... but part of that audience is price sensitive so at current price i doubt switch is an option. Maybe when fisrt price drop or maybe bundled (300€ ?) considering is a port....
Zelda is huge but it's never been Mario Kart huge. Now, I don't think Mario Kart 8 Deluxe will blow everyone's balls off and smash pie charts to pieces - it is a port after all - but it seems like it's got enough new content, as well as being on a much more appealing console, to be something of a minor sales boost, or at least a console sales sustaining game. It's a consequence free release for Nintendo to put out.
Fairly decent numbers! Double Wii U and 10k more than 360 - that's perfectly reasonable.
PS4 and Xb1 were very very high because there had not been a new gen home console for 8 years. Switch is going into a market with very established, more powerful home consoles and mobile devices.
So I think 80k is a decent number. Not mind shattering but perfectly decent. Let's hope they can sustain it!
PS4 and Xb1 were very very high because there had not been a new gen home console for 8 years. Switch is going into a market with very established, more powerful home consoles and mobile devices.
So I think 80k is a decent number. Not mind shattering but perfectly decent. Let's hope they can sustain it!
Kresnik258
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If Bomberman managed to chart, then yes
A new Bomberman game vs. the umpteenth release of Street Fighter II?
Okay.
metalslimer
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Not amazing. Not a bomb. Next week will tell the true story
OfficerRaichu15
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Hey, GTA V did well as a port in Xbox one and PS4 why not MK8D
Next week isn't gonna tell us anything. Stock will most likely still be very low.
OfficerRaichu15
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What will be interesting is France and Germany since they were predicting to sell around 100k or more day 1.
That poisoned well. I wonder if the UK will ever warm up to NIntendo "again" (as if they ever were^^).
UK is no standard to measure anything by when it comes to Nintendo sales
Well I have been put off Nintendo since forever and have only really owned a couple of consoles and I love my Switch already. Would like to have a better dock situation mind.. but I can see me playing this console a lot (mostly in handheld mode). Really hope it gets good support from everyone and indeed from Nintendo themselves. A wee price drop/bundle and the thing will become highly desirable for the masses.
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Huh, Wii U console development is continuing? 😒
It's usually been the safe bet considering how wide of a gap there is between the two. A much more appealing console than the Wii U with wider consumer appeal, but lacking the price/simplicity of the much more accessible 3DS. Gamecube numbers at minimum if they have the right software.
PSFan
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Hey, GTA V did well as a port in Xbox one and PS4 why not MK8D
Well, while MK8 sold well it didn't move many WiiUs. Personally, I didn't care much for MK8 compared to previous MK games, so I probably will not buy the Switch version.
Considering this is after Wii U brought Nintendo's relevance in UK almost to Xbox levels in Japan, i'd say it's a pretty positive result. Not groundbreaking, but a good start for sure. 3DS had a better launch but that came after their biggest and most successful console(s) ever and it was 50-60£ cheaper.
ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
where do you live? It'll be helpful for those who wants a Switch
OfficerRaichu15
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Sold over 8 millions copies on a 13 million user base. Imagine if it had that portability?
You can tell by just looking at someones post history.
I was baffled at someones post in regards to Zelda until I clicked on history posts and it seems that he just trolls the game in every thread.
I'm talking about the capacity of boosting the system sales of a remaster beyond the audience of Zelda BotW. MK8 already sold big numbers, but the boost for Wii U sales at MK8 launch was relatively limited.
Now Switch seems to be a much more attractive system than Wii U while being still quite pricey for the MK Wii and MK7 audience. So I guess we will see.
Lets agree to disagree then
I can see it being a solid system seller. Sure early adopter will buy it, but Zelda and MK might be enough to pull loads of/enough people towards the system besides early adopters.IMO casuals won't come for a long time. Those aren't even on PS4/Xbox One yet.
Being a solid gaming system with attractive hardware and loads of alternatives to the (soon) 4k twins should be enough to lay out a solid userbase. It won't set the world on fire but I'd bet it will bridge the time to the first price cut/hardware iteration rather well.
PSFan
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You mean like the DS and 3DS MK games had? It's nothing new.
1.21Gigawatts
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Are we expecting Nintendo to view Switch as home console and handheld combined?
Or will they also release a new handheld thats only handheld?
If they view the Switch as a combination of the too, does that mean we will get the handheld franchises on Switch?
Does that even work? I figure production costs on Switch are much higher than on 3DS while install base will probably never catch up.
And what are their sales expectations? WiiU and 3DS combined sold close to 80 mil units and this generation was considered not that good for Nintendo.
But 80 mil still seems like a number Switch will never reach.
I just don't get Nintendos plan.
Or will they also release a new handheld thats only handheld?
If they view the Switch as a combination of the too, does that mean we will get the handheld franchises on Switch?
Does that even work? I figure production costs on Switch are much higher than on 3DS while install base will probably never catch up.
And what are their sales expectations? WiiU and 3DS combined sold close to 80 mil units and this generation was considered not that good for Nintendo.
But 80 mil still seems like a number Switch will never reach.
I just don't get Nintendos plan.
Southampton.
Looks to be Fall title.
rochellepaws
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Officially they view the Switch as a home console and are continuing to support the 3DS. They haven't ruled out a successor console to the 3DS.
Not really. It's pretty much sold out everywhere and the next shipment is nearer to the end of March, and then mid April. Unless you mean next week we'll hear worldwide numbers.
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Katana_Strikes
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That's a solid launch number. Did embarrass itself and much better than WiiU. Launch numbers are never indicative of success however but I think it's got its work cut out now. Beyond the core who have picked it up for Zelda it'll be a long slog till Xmas when (if) Mario launches and starts building some software in the run up. Xmas will be its real test.
Those versions of MK are in the Top 3 best selling iterations of the series, so if anything you're kind of proving his point that having a portable MK8 is a good business decision.