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Magicpaint
Member
Impressive numbers. Week 2 will be very interesting for Splatoon 2. Also subsequent weekly shipment numbers for Switch.
If Splatoon 1 did ~1.7m in Japan, wouldn't USAs performance be pretty close, considering the 4.8m LTD?
Not saying that'll happen again with splatoon 2, but I wouldn't be shocked.
The difference is the size of markets.
yeah, I was just talking raw numbers.
edit:
cause I hear a lot "it did well in Japan but not USA" or whatever for example.
Impact wise of course, no contest, but in terms of raw sales....
That line is nonsensical anyway: 1.5 million or more for a new and unconventional IP is a great result in the US too.
Dark Cloud
Member
Its been beaten so much to say how amazing Splatoon is in Japan because of the ratio of sales to population lol. Like it sold better in America. Yes, we know it's not the same when you compare population or console market size, but America doesn't get enough credit for selling so much of Splatoon.
No yeah, it seems perfectly feasible that similar numbers would get sold in both regions.
What I was trying to get at earlier is the attach rate per region. Here in Japan in this first week it may be over 50%, but I'm doubtful it's anywhere near that in other territories.
yea it's weird. I bet if you took a poll a gaf, a surprising amount probably wouldn't know it did well over a million in the USA. The way the sales get discussed. It did more than several notable IPs over the past few years in USA alone.
Like, did Halo or GoW 4 even beat it....?
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
So I was thinking about someone said earlier that FFXV debuted a lil higher at 700+ which I thought was a interesting comparison, but then I remembered that FFXV just barely reached 1 million very very recently and was still up for debate for a while...so did sales just fall off a cli- no, fall off the face of the earth?
Aren't those rather normal things for JRPGs? I know tales games get their legs amputated after the second week, for example, and I believe the same is true for Persona 5.
Yup. Sales just dropped like a rock. If they didn't ship a million first week I doubt it would have crawled up there.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
I mean I guess, but I don't expect DQ11 sales to just stop after the 1st week for instance
Jeez
I believe the release is planned for like 3 minutes from now, at 4 PM JST. Anyone know if this is in fact true?
Nintendo numbers are out:
Hardware: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/hard_soft/index.html
Software: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/software/index.html
Earnings are live!
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/earnings/index.html
Edit: Lol beaten! Thank you Zalman!
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/earnings/index.html
Edit: Lol beaten! Thank you Zalman!
Earthpainting
Member
I figured it would do well, but the limited Switches in rotation were going to be the limiting factor here, making its opening a bit of a wildcard. Curious to see how far its eight legs can take it.
Pretty sure the Geneva Convention ruled against this exact sort of thing.Ōkami;244511083 said:
Gotta make sure the kids know what Dragon Quest is somehow.
Jon Carter
Member
Lol at 1-2-Switch selling 1.22.
And people said it is bomba lol..... it sold moar than most games lol.
It's probably around 1-1.2 million WW
I think a bit higher tbh. It was at 1.08 million after March, I think it's over 1.5 million at least.
Zelda is the same level as 1-2 Switch lol.
I don't remember my exacts predictions, but I argued that it would conformably sell over 50% of the username but always thought that YSO numbers were too big.
Great debut anyway, and again people overreacted with early hardware reports, like before Switch launch when people thought it would be close to a 200k launch. We need to stop putting so much faith in these reports.
Great debut anyway, and again people overreacted with early hardware reports, like before Switch launch when people thought it would be close to a 200k launch. We need to stop putting so much faith in these reports.
test_account
XP-39C²
Didnt Bic Camera alone say that they got like 20k units of the S2 bundle?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_ycXAUdRMA
I guess we're going to hear about Switch Senran Kagura game next week.
I guess we're going to hear about Switch Senran Kagura game next week.
Kresnik258
Member
Nice for Spla2oon. Nicer for Switch hardware.
Wonder how the following weeks will be.
Wonder how the following weeks will be.
Regional breakdown of Switch hardware LTD:
The Americas: 1.95 million
Japan: 1.12 million
Other: 1.63 million
So, I was correct initially months ago when the shortages started happening but we were unaware it was affecting things worldwide.
And that is the assumption that Nintendo would prioritise sales for overseas compared to Japan, that is because roughly 70% of the revenue or profits (I can't remember which) come from overseas thanks to currencies when they are stronger than the yen.
Only when other regions do terrible for Nintendo that Japan sales are higher than other regions like the 3DS showed.
Because Nintendo shipped 1.97 million Switch units and this 2nd quarter (July-Sep) is currently doing better than the last quarter since we haven't seen shortages occur (like the one from May) yet that maybe they'll get at least 2.5 million shipped for the 2nd quarter.
But, the fact is that they will definitely lose sales if they don't supply enough Switch units for the third quarter.
At least 7 or 8 million units for Switch would be adequate for October to December, I know their forecast is 10 million but that doesn't mean they can't beat that unless ramping up production to produce that much is impossible.
Very curious what production increase they'll have by Fall as stated before.
The Americas: 1.95 million
Japan: 1.12 million
Other: 1.63 million
So, I was correct initially months ago when the shortages started happening but we were unaware it was affecting things worldwide.
And that is the assumption that Nintendo would prioritise sales for overseas compared to Japan, that is because roughly 70% of the revenue or profits (I can't remember which) come from overseas thanks to currencies when they are stronger than the yen.
Only when other regions do terrible for Nintendo that Japan sales are higher than other regions like the 3DS showed.
Because Nintendo shipped 1.97 million Switch units and this 2nd quarter (July-Sep) is currently doing better than the last quarter since we haven't seen shortages occur (like the one from May) yet that maybe they'll get at least 2.5 million shipped for the 2nd quarter.
But, the fact is that they will definitely lose sales if they don't supply enough Switch units for the third quarter.
At least 7 or 8 million units for Switch would be adequate for October to December, I know their forecast is 10 million but that doesn't mean they can't beat that unless ramping up production to produce that much is impossible.
Very curious what production increase they'll have by Fall as stated before.
in just 4 months, nintendo switch is selling almost 1/3 of WiiU's total LTD (4.5 years)
insane in several levels
Splatoon 2: 671k
Switch: 102k
All Famitsu data, here's the thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1411320&highlight=splatoon+2
We didn't get WiiU sales numbers, though. Dying to see those tbh
i cant see such legs for a Wii U title at this point
Splatoon 2: 671k
Switch: 102k
All Famitsu data, here's the thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1411320&highlight=splatoon+2
We didn't get WiiU sales numbers, though. Dying to see those tbh
Those Splatoon sales are from 3 days right? So the number revealed in a few more hours would be one day or two more of sales right? If so i can see 750k or so for Splatoon 2.
No, I think the media create numbers include three days as well.
Those 3 days are for the release week (Friday to Sunday), the last 2 days will be in this week numbers (to be released next week in Japan).
That said, I think with eshop/digital sales (not included in the 671K sales) it's not far away from 750K first week.
No, it will still be 3 days
Splatoon 2: 671k
Switch: 102k
All Famitsu data, here's the thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1411320&highlight=splatoon+2
We didn't get WiiU sales numbers, though. Dying to see those tbh
Thank you! Those are some supremely good numbers.
A shame they didn't provide up to date sales for BotW Wii U, it was the only place we had a chance of ever getting them from (unless it somehow manages to sell over 1m before April 1 2018? I doubt they will ship that many units ww, as most people who wanted the game on Wii U definitely got it during the first month).
Good Guy Gone Bad
Member
That sales behavior for RPGs that debut that well is not atypical.