Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Kova Nintendo doesn't make these ports.

@Kova You do realize AC is made by Ubisoft, Darksiders is THQ Nordic, and Mario and Zelda are Nintendo right? Those are three completely separate companies with their own agendas.

I'm too angry and frustrated to think rationally.. sorry guys. Gotta head out and forget Nintendo for a moment.

@Kova Why get angry about video games dude?

Kova no like these games! Kova go smash! Kova no like business choices not aligned with Kova!
Sun's startin' to get low, bud.

Lol guy's a trip...

Darksiders. Add another classic notch to the HD handheld hybrid belt.

Nintendo's financials are out.

As of December 31st:

Switch - 32.27 million
Smash Ultimate - 12.08 million (yes, you read that right)
Pokemon Let's Go - 10 million
Super Mario Party - 5.30 million
MK8D - 15.02 million.

HOLY F***ING **** AT SMASH'S NUMBERS THOUGH.

Mario Kart Tour is delayed until summer 2019.

The hardware forecast has been slashed to 17 million for the fiscal year. That'll get some Nintendoomed articles going, which is a shame considering how well the software numbers are doing. Still a solid result overall!

Ultimate could possibly become the best selling Switch game if it keeps up, holy crap.

So it seems that Nintendo lowered their 20m expectations to 17m. Looks like they'll miss it after all. That said, for a comparatively lighter year that's still not too bad.

Wonder if New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe didn't do as well as they'd hoped for hardware sales in Q1. Maybe that's what caused them to think differently.

i'd guess they were expecting Smash to bring in more hardware sales for October - December.

@IceClimbers The Switch won’t outsell the N64 until next quarter? NINTENDOOMED!!! /s

@Mrtoad Ha!

Just 660,000 short of N64's LTD sales. Should surpass it by mid-February, if not by the end of this month.

What makes me sad though, is that ARMS and Xenoblade 2 both dropped out of the best-sellers list. I would have liked to see Xenoblade 2 at least break 2 million, even if it has to eventually limp to that milestone.

Ah well.

3DS only sold 1.31 million units from October-December.

– 14.49 million Switch units sold from April 2018 to December 2018*

Source: https://nintendoeverything.com/nintendo-financial-results-nin...

This is impressive, no matter how you slice it. (*Edited)

@Lemmy_the_Koopa That's an error, 14.49 million is the April - December number.

@Grumblevolcano Still impressive

20 titles have sold at least 1 million during this fiscal year, 8 of which are third party (7 if you count Octopath as 1st party):

https://www.resetera.com/threads/20-games-sold-at-least-1-mil...

My guess is that those 7 are Minecraft, FIFA, Diablo, Crash, Hyrule Warriors, Sonic Mania Plus, and Mario + Rabbids.

For those that want to take a look at the close numbers here are the Nintendo Co., Ltd.reports.

Earnings Release: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2019/190131e.pdf
Supplemantary Information: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2019/190131_2e.pdf

Interestingly enough nothing has changed and so far they did not add any new titles we had not been aware. I wonder why Nintendo is playing it that close to it's chest.

EDIT: Looking at the Switch unit sold 2018 vs 2017 reveals that the biggest growth in Switch sales was actually overseas, while Japan only had a slight increase in terms of sales.