Seems likebyou care about first to 1M... The dissaster called PS4 than you compare to things like Wii U has sold 1.5M more...
Also Switch is the slowest selling Nintendo handheld.
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Nintendo Switch has sold over a million units in Japan
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Seems likebyou care about first to 1M... The dissaster called PS4 than you compare to things like Wii U has sold 1.5M more...
Also Switch is the slowest selling Nintendo handheld.
Logically, I would think that handheld gaming would take a much larger hit from mobile gaming than console gaming. I remember that people in the Media Create thread said at some point that Japanese lifestyle and housing is/has become very unsuited for console gaming, meaning a shift to portable and mobile gaming happened/was inevitable. That's a more likely catalyst for this specific development than mobile gaming itself imo.
Toadthemushroom
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Considering the Switch is a hybrid, at the very least the benchmark should be on a handheld and a console's performance (3DS and Wii U then), unless Nintendo plans to launch distinctly different hardware in the same family.
Lol, that spin is hilarious.
Because it wasn't. Just initial hype (and supply) were huge, sales dropped after first year.
Nintendoomed.
Out of interest, have portables historically declined less in the summer than home consoles? I'd imagine that that's the case, since it's something you can still have on you when out and about, but I've no idea if that's borne out by the facts.
Yeh that could be it lol
Damn, it's really hitting me how poorly it does over there
Was that really the case? Always thought the GBA sold like a beast for the little time it was actively supported - I don't know the Japan specific numbers, but it did manage to sell over 80m in 4 years - that would need pretty steady sales. Or are you excluding the SP model?
Smiles and Cries
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CaviarMeths
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Not surprising. Nintendo fans have no other hardware to buy.
I was originally going to just make a snarky post about "Xbox 360: TBA", but I then actually looked it up, and it passed 1M in week 16, 2009.
Media Create thread format has changed a bit over the last few years, I couldn't find Original Xbox numbers with any certainty
I'm sure Nintendo are utterly gutted at the sales performance of the Switch, which presumably has absolutely nothing to do with it being sold out for months on end because they can't make the bloody things quick enough.
breakfuss
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lol nah
Herb Alpert
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3DS says hi
It's Guymelef, he only posts about Nintendo when he can be snarky and/or salty.
The GBA first full fiscal whole year on the market moved over 17 million units.
Firstly: 3DS. Secondly, all the other examples that took longer were provided by companies with multiple pieces of hardware on the market?
Xbox One will never reach one million in Japan lol. Maybe it'll reach 100k before it gets discontinued.
Royce McCutcheon
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What does this even mean
BOOKOFF, one of the largest secondhand sales store chains are still running ads to buy used Switches at 110% retail price. Not sure how much they sell for cause I've never seen a used one.
Lyon N. Laap
Member
Pretty sure it's a joke playing off the claims that WiiU and now Switch games only sell because there were/aren't many games for the systems.
It's the new reason, now that there are games, people are starving for a Nintendo console. :lol
Mega line ups at retail stores where almost nobody gets to buy one, people have to go through a lottery to have the 'chance' to spent money on the damn thing.
This was two days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSw...le_standing_in_line_to_buy_a_switch_today_in/
I made a post today, where you can see that big shipments of Switch units sold out within the hour.
More generally, there are the raffle lines with almost 1000 people for 50-60 Switch units, and the Japanese Nintendo message to Japanese consumers that they are sorry for the supply issues and that they expect to raise shipments as of July.
SinCityAssassin
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Having japanese exclusives will at least get you SOMETHING.
It was tongue-in-cheek, I do fully expect it to be 'forever TBA'
Depend on the expectation.
For an also run console it is a good result.
PlayStation Vita is no PSP that's for sure.
More than half of those 80M were sold in the Americas which give you a clue what it was the market where GBA performed best.
In Japan GBA performed good but could have done better.
82 million in less than 5 years is not big ? So what's "big" then ?
KillerMan91
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?.
2001: 4.2 million
2002: 3.8 million
2003: 3.8 million
2004: 2.4 million (DS release)
I don't see huge drop before DS release. It just had ridiculously short life thanks to Nintendo rushing DS against PSP.
He didn't say huge drop, he said initial hype was huge, then sales dropped the following year, so it is accurately reflected in that data.
Jawbreaker
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Great sales, especially considering the supply shortages.
I mean, it's a pretty useless statement to make since a drop in sales a year after launch is expected. The drop was very minimal.
I mean, it's a pretty useless statement to make since a drop in sales a year after launch is expected. The drop was very minimal.
Graphics Horse
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Japan isn't Zelda obsessed in the way USA is.
jts
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It sells out shipment after shipment since launch so there's literally no telling what's the ceiling right now.
What we can tell is that Nintendo are bleeding sales due to shortages.
In the first month yes, most likely not the case anymore (still doing great tho)
Something something Zelda has never been that big in Japan relatively speaking
Newtype-001
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sounds crazy but it's possible,
Switch sold 1 million in 4 months, with absolutely terrible supply.
Splatoon 2 could be the sole reason the switch would sell 500k in a matter of 2~3 weeks.
Zelda and MK will remain 2017 evergreens, they just won't leave the top 15~20 in japan.
if those 3 games and switch were readily available, Switch could be doing anything between 50k~100k per week
Q4 weeks could really get insane.
Uhh... It is? Usually you expect growth, not decline after the first year of a product's life cycle.
Jawbreaker
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Yes? If you take the large launch sales along with sales for the rest of the year, it would follow that the next year would see a decline of some sort barring supply issues the first year. The GBA released in March, so it had most of the year.