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[CuteFaceJay]

I beg this means we getting RDR2 on Switch 2.

 

[LordOcidax]

False, should edit thread.

This is a forecast they wrongly put up, it is not sales numbers.

That was not a forecast… That's not even the forecast page.

 

[noshten]

Which would explain the public apology Furukawa did last week?

Think that applogy was focused on Japan where its a lottery system to buy the system at retail and online and where over 2.2 million people applied to the MyNintendo Store to pre-order the system and most weren't able to secure a Switch 2 there. Furukawa and the rest of Nintendo mostly focus on Japanese market at the Q&As since most of their investors are based in Japan. Bowser is the one that might provide an appology for the US market if the supply is unsufficient.


My expectations for the quarter is 7 million shipped / 6 million sell-through

 

[Unknown?]

Good to see, congrat to Nintendo!

 

[AJUMP23]

With one pretty good game at launch. That is impressive.

 

[Buggy Loop]

Guy, with 3M units in 4 days and now 5M units in 3 weeks, I've graphed it and it looks to be dire for Nintendo. If the sales per week keep decreasing at that rate I predict it'll flatline and fall off a cliff by end of summer

/s

 

[Baemono]

Switch 1 over 140M, Switch 2 at 5M less then a month on sale, PS5 reaching 100M next year.

Imagine if consoles weren't dead.

"But the install base doesn't grow" yeah cause one keeps shrinking

 

[VolticArchangel]

GigaBowser post if you're ok.

 

[Baemono]

GigaBowser post if you're ok.

He'll write a shakespearian essay on the success, called "the post-nut clarity"

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

"But the install base doesn't grow" yeah cause one keeps shrinking

Exactly. When you go from 3 console manufacturers to only 2 the console market adjusts to that.

 

[Sgt.Asher]

I think we lost everyone that would down play this.

 

[Warspite]

I doubt that. Square has to have learned their lesson by now.

Don't put it past them, they missed the launch of the Switch 2 with their FF7 remake. Even if a few years old port, a good meaty game for the launch of a console was not going to hurt them, now FF7 will come out later in the year facing who knows what competition at a time when a few years old port will look less interesting.

 

[thismeinteil]

Wait, so it sold 3.5M in 4 days, but took ~3 weeks to sell 1.5M more? Pack it in guys, it's over.

 

[Duchess]

Gosh, only 3M more and it'll have outsold the Xbox Series X..!

(assuming that 25% of the reported 30 million Series sales belong to the X).

 

[Baemono]

Gosh, only 3M more and it'll have outsold the Xbox Series X..!

(assuming that 25% of the reported 30 million Series sales belong to the X).

No, it's 2022 data, where the Series X was heavily supply constrained. Since then, the Series X outsold the Series S in the US, and fair to assume it's pretty much the same worldwide (even in Japan there are more X sold than S now).

The Series S was a mistake.

 

[Unknown?]

Switch 1 over 140M, Switch 2 at 5M less then a month on sale, PS5 reaching 100M next year.

Imagine if consoles weren't dead.

It's looking healthy when you throw out the toxicity.

 

[Vyse]

i did it

That's really funny. Friend of mine found a Switch 2 in the wild and picked one up for me. Just transferred my switch one games over. So excited. Add a +1.

 

[MrA]

Switch 1 over 140M, Switch 2 at 5M less then a month on sale, PS5 reaching 100M next year.

Imagine if consoles weren't dead.

Hot damn thats a lot of xboxs

 

[Kacho]

Europe is distant third now ?

No surprise at all. Europeans can't wait to tell you the Switch 2 is available in their country. My social media was flooded with that when I said the Switch 2 launch wasn't "muted."

 

[KU_]

Very impressive numbers.

There is one who predicted such, and he's just risen from grave.

GigaBowser

 

[Emedan]

No surprise at all. Europeans can't wait to tell you the Switch 2 is available in their country. My social media was flooded with that when I said the Switch 2 launch wasn't "muted."

It's the pricing, MK Bundle in Sweden is like 790 bucks.

 

[RoboFu]

But the screen is virtually unplayable!!!

 

[lh032]

Hot damn thats a lot of xboxs

xbox:

 

[Hookshot]

I'll believe it when they say it. Who knows what intern typed in those numbers.

 

[Deerock71]

 

[kpopSuperstar]

That was not a forecast… That's not even the forecast page.

It is a forecast, this thing was released a week ago, but now that people are using this as sales numbers, Nintendo will likely remove this.

 

[Gambit2483]

I remember when it was a race to the first 10 million in a year. Switch 2 will do that in a business quarter.

I remember that. "1st to 10 million wins" was the line. Switch 2 will easily hit that by year's end.

I'd wager It will outsell Xbox series X by end of next year.

 

[LordOcidax]

It is a forecast, this thing was released a week ago, but now that people are using this as sales numbers, Nintendo will likely remove this.

I know the numbers are from the past week, but the sales are in line with the NPD sales report + Nintendo store sales. No chance this is a forecast. Probably they update the sales weekly in the page and somebody pulled the trigger by error and made the numbers visible to the public. Probably the numbers are higher this week.

 

[Landr300]

You got it all figured out, Switch 2 will obviously sell even less than Wii U and completely die within less than 2 years on the market. With all the numbers out everything points to such a scenario. Mods, lock the thread, we are done here.

Not hurt at all hum?

 

[Landr300]

Does it matter? What's important is that a new console gets good early momentum. Once that happens the rest follow.

People are sheep, a big reason PlayStation always sell over 100 million is party because everyone's friends are on there.

It doesn't, the ps3 wasn't 100m

 

[Zacfoldor]

Does it matter? What's important is that a new console gets good early momentum. Once that happens the rest follow.

People are sheep, a big reason PlayStation always sell over 100 million is party because everyone's friends are on there.

I think he was being sarcastic but you are 100% correct. The reason doesn't matter. The fomo matters and that is generated by early buzz. Switch 2 is already golden. It is currently culturally relevant and that is all that is needed for success.

It could still fall off but the fall off is slow. Nintendo will need to keep the games coming and we are golden.

 

[LordOcidax]

I think he was being sarcastic but you are 100% correct. The reason doesn't matter. The fomo matters and that is generated by early buzz. Switch 2 is already golden. It is currently culturally relevant and that is all that is needed for success.

It could still fall off but the fall off is slow. Nintendo will need to keep the games coming and we are golden.

Some people want or thing that the sales of the Switch 2 are going to drop from a cliff… Something that never happened to the Switch 1 sales even 8 years later… And nothing indicates that is going to happen.

 

[kpopSuperstar]

I know the numbers are from the past week, but the sales are in line with the NPD sales report + Nintendo store sales. No chance this is a forecast. Probably they update the sales weekly in the page and somebody pulled the trigger by error and made the numbers visible to the public. Probably the numbers are higher this week.

A forecast would be in line with real numbers, thats the point. The clean total numbers for both units shows that this is forecast numbers. Its how they do it.

That said, they might have sold more if anything, but this is certainly not a sheet to take as a fact of sales.

 

[LordOcidax]

A forecast would be in line with real numbers, thats the point. The clean total numbers for both units shows that this is forecast numbers. Its how they do it.

That said, they might have sold more if anything, but this is certainly not a sheet to take as a fact of sales.

That doesn't make sense… Why update forecasts numbers every month? This looks more like a monthly sales tracker.

 

[fallingdove]

Especially since the PS5's 3.4M units are shipped but SW2 sold through 5M in a week quicker.

How do you know that's sold through?

 

[RAIDEN1]

Switch Pro going from strength to strength!!!

 

[Rivdoric]

Switch 2 is a beast

Call of Duty games as well ?
They sell 30+ millions too.

 

[LordOcidax]

Call of Duty games as well ?
They sell 30+ millions too.

Ask Sony .

 

[Geometric-Crusher]

PR

Nintendo is desperate cause people realize that Donkey Kong is Mario Odyssey with another skin, and that the Switch 2 lcd screen is slow, and the $80 games will be boycotted. To combat this, they spit out numbers.

 

[Deerock71]

How do you know that's sold through?

How do you know it's NOT sold through? Eh? Eh?

 

[LordOcidax]

How do you know that's sold through?

Probably because the number comes from the Japan Nintendo site…

 

[fallingdove]

Probably because the number comes from the Japan Nintendo site…

So? You guys are really stretching.

The fact that these numbers come out to be so nicely rounded indicates that they are either estimated or they are shipped figures and not devices sold through to the consumer.

I can't wait for someone to bring up that Nintendo is a publicly traded company and it would be illegal for them to put inaccurate numbers up on an investor relations webpage.

 

[fallingdove]

How do you know it's NOT sold through? Eh? Eh?

Cause they are rounded for one. Do you think the world decided to just stop at 5m consoles purchased so Nintendo could update their website?

 

[Pop]

Pshh fell off after the first 4 days selling 3.5 mil

 

[LordOcidax]

So? You guys are really stretching.

The fact that these numbers come out to be so nicely rounded indicates that they are either estimated or they are shipped figures and not devices sold through to the consumer.

I can't wait for someone to bring up that Nintendo is a publicly traded company and it would be illegal for them to put inaccurate numbers up on an investor relations webpage.

That page is not for estimates . You are the one really stretching here. That page is for sales.

 

[Shadowstar39]

I belive it. People on here and elsewhere trying to gaslight folks... "its easy to get, i got mine" or "i seen a bunch on launch day and days later" in east bumblefuck Egypt.

The shit has been impossible to get with only a handful of restocks that sell out in minutes, yet people still try to say its reasonable.

I am still waiting for Nintendo to give me the email to buy it. At least Sony put me in a queue and let me know I was entered. They just said "we will notify, someday, maybe..."...lol

Shit sold well, its hard , if not impossible to find in the USA.

 

[fallingdove]

That page is not for estimates . You are the one really stretching here. That page is for sales.

You don't think they could be "Sales Estimates" smart guy?

 

[apple_of_enlightenment]

How do you know that's sold through?

Because that's what the source (Nintendo website) says, and also Nintendo have a history of reporting actual sales rather than shipped units. Unlike sneaky Sony&MS

 

[ReBurn]

I belive it. People on here and elsewhere trying to gaslight folks... "its easy to get, i got mine" or "i seen a bunch on launch day and days later" in east bumblefuck Egypt.

The shit has been impossible to get with only a handful of restocks that sell out in minutes, yet people still try to say its reasonable.

I am still waiting for Nintendo to give me the email to buy it. At least Sony put me in a queue and let me know I was entered. They just said "we will notify, someday, maybe..."...lol

Shit sold well, its hard , if not impossible to find in the USA.

I heard there's a Target in Alabama that has one in the display case. Impossible to find rumor debunked.

 

[fallingdove]

Because that's what the source (Nintendo website) says, and also Nintendo have a history of reporting actual sales rather than shipped units. Unlike sneaky Sony&MS

Sure. Whatever you want to believe.