Fahzgoolin
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If only they, you know, kept the thing in stock.
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Superdata: Nintendo Switch has sold 1.5m worldwide tracked
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giancarlo123x
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I'm one
in A million.
point five
They can ramp up production during the summer and fall if demand is higher than they expected.
You'd be surprised, I was checking out the 'recently played with' friends option after playing Bomberman online the other day and I'd say about 40-50% of the profiles I looked at didn't have Zelda as one of their played games.
Yes all my friends are playing Zelda too. I was talking about viewing the profiles of people you'd played with online.You and I have very different friends, because most of mine just play Zelda all day (and night).
I really hope this system is successful enough to get the 3rd party support. It would be amazing to actually have Overwatch on the Switch instead of just developers teasing a possibility. Or if those Nintendo Switch Rocket League images actually came true.
I wouldn't mind necessary downgrades from PS4/XOne releases either, as just having the games portable is much more important to me.
I wouldn't mind necessary downgrades from PS4/XOne releases either, as just having the games portable is much more important to me.
They probably keep production around one million per month and stockpile during the slow months for the holidays.
What slow months? Lets assume Mario comes out November. Between now and then there are 6 months. 2 of those months are confirmed to have Mario Kart and Splatoon (each could move 1M Console Units) Then Smash 4 and Pokemon Stars* will likely also release in that time frame (each could also move 1M a Month)
September/October is going to bring Fifa/NBA2K which will move systems if the console still has momentum. (Pretty likely)
So theoretically Nintendo will have maybe 500k stock in reserve and producing 1M a month going into the holidays with a new Mario game, a Zelda GOTY edition, 1 unanounced game (Retro?) And bundles featuring MK8D and Splatoon to push online subscriptions.
Im not sure they need to ramp up production much, but the Switch could be sold out all year on the current production schedule if demand holds
*placeholder for whatever Pokemon Sun/Moon's 3rd game is called
Very possible if no restock yet.
Note that the article also says most numbers given are still from first week numbers, so you can't really draw conclusions from that (in the same way, the UK and France numbers are 5k higher than what we know, so it does feel a bit strange).
The specs were finalized in fall 2016, I have no reason to believe they held back production pf the Switch. It takes time to produce millions of units.
This is Nintendo we are talking about
The perfect Dark
Banned
Amazing sales numbers!
Bought Zelda digitally?
ArchedThunder
Banned
Where did they get the US numbers?
I would guess the same way Media Create and Chart Track get theirs: tracking sales. Not 100% sure how much they do themselves though in this regard.
Splatoon should be bigger than Zelda in Japan. It should be like a second launch for them.
ZehDon
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While it sure would be nice to see a Nintendo console succeed, the hardware difference between the Switch and current generation consoles is too big. It killed support for the Wii U, and it'll do the same here. The RAM difference alone kills hope for most current gen titles. We're not talking "drop rendering res, loose AA, maybe lower res textures, success!". Games would need their assets - models, animations, LODs, levels, etc. - re-built from the ground up entirely for the Switch versions. That's a lot of extra copies on Switch needed to make the re-development costs worthwhile, and 3rd parties typically perform poorly on Nintendo consoles. No one is going to build two entirely different versions of their game just to get a Switch sale. Low-to-mid budget titles, sure, and you'll get a few token 360 ports to test the water. But AAA is basically ruled out, and that's going to hurt long term sales. Nintendo have a good start, but I think these sales are front loaded. The Nintendo faithful are buying in for Zelda, and then it's basically wait until Christmas for Mario, and I suspect we'll see a price drop before then.
It will drop to 79% in a few days.
Yeah, for some reason many people on this forum seem to think that current gen ports onto the switch are no big deal, but I think they will be sorely disappointed if they expect it to happen with most games. I'm sure we will get one here and there, but the more demanding titles won't make it.
Wii U ports were dead before 360 and ps3 ports were, so I don't believe that power is why the Wii U lost support.
Herb Alpert
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Most people have understood that... Don't know who you are talking about...
It did 105k in 2 (or 3?) days, though we have no day one numbers, even if day one is obviously the majority of that number.
Yes it was, basically
Herb Alpert
Banned
They claimed they did 105k iirc.
since this thing doesn't look like a wii u-level bomb i think you'll see a repeat of wii era 3rd party support, exclusives developed from the ground up but minus the shovelware aspect, since there's no particular quick cash in gimmick. probably not enough to warrant "solid 3rd party support" but the system's strong launch is probably bending a few publishers' ears
I was thinking more of a 7/10 drop.
Alright, didn't see the timescale. Thanks. Pretty impressive coming off of the Wii U.
I really really hope the switch succeeds and sells past the expected numbers. I don't even plan on buying one (yet) but we need a healthy Nintendo in the market to stop others from having a monopoly on the consoles business.
Difficult to judge considering the low stock supply of 2 mio. Their previous handheld shipped more than 3 mio in a similar timeframe (but didn't sell out?).
Good numbers, but in both surprised that the whole 2mn weren't available for sale Day 1, and kind of 'Well yeah, it should be able to sell 1.5mn units globally at launch.' The hardcore fan base is big enough to deliver good launch sales - indeed, that should be enough to get it to WiiU numbers at least.
Calm Mind
Member
This Friday at the earliest.
openrob
Member
Maybe they picked up Zelda digitally?
It's possible that Nintendo could get by without them. The 3DS isn't long for this world, and the Vita has been dead for awhile, so Nintendo could leverage their monopoly on portable systems to court a lot of titles that could be big sellers.
Except for Mario Kart which is bigger than Zelda & 3D Mario in America and Splatoon, which is bigger than both in Japan.
I bought it for Bomberman and Blaster Master, but Bomberman sucks so I traded it for zelda.
PSFan
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Trying to scalp them.