Nintendo Switch Tops NPD With Over 900,000 Units Sold, Zelda Attach Rate Over 100%

Can we all apply common sense here? Switch sold what Nintendo was able to ship. This thing is sold out everywhere right now, so it's no mystery.

Geez imagine if they weren't stingy on the stock.

Why you do this to us Nintendo? You were supposed to be the chosen one.

I doubt it does Wii or PS4 numbers in the end, but a good 70 million at least. My thinking is having Console quality Mario, Zelda's AND Pokemon, it simply can't fail.

Fallacious anecdotal conclusions by eNT1TY: Switch is losing steam fast and may fail since mine bundled with SE botw, and pro controller sat about 9 days on craigslist at $450 (i stated i'm keeping map) before an inquiry and 11 days before a sale.

But you have to look at bundling. I get what you're saying, Nintendo just make quality shit with sales legs, but Mario Kart isn't comparable to Uncharted or Halo. Halo 5 wasn't mass bundled at any point and managed 5+ million. Splatoon and Mario Kart 8 came with every other WiiU sku.

@Solaryellow: exactly... people were looney tunes during launch with conspiracy theories... with no understanding of supply and demand

@goldenelementxl said:

@bobrossperm said:

Halo 5 wasn't mass bundled at any point

Those aren't mass bundles. Destiny PS4 in 2014 was mass bundling, Black Ops 3 in 2015, Uncharted 4 in 2016. Halo 5 had the odd bundle but they weren't pushed as the premier Sku to sell over the holidays and throughout the year. If you recall it was actually the Gears Ultimate bundle in 2015. MS don't mass bundle Halo. Just like Nintendo don't mass bundle Zelda and Sony don't mass bundle God Of War.

And lets not pretend Nintendo don't have a distinct advantage when it comes to bundling. They don't have to contend with marketing Destiny 2, CoD, Battlefront II, Red Dead 2. Gran Turismo Sport for example will probably have to play second fiddle to one of those when it comes to holiday bundles. Where as Nintendo can put their full marketing power behind Splatoon 2, Mario Kart and Mario Oddysey. In fact I bet it's hard to even find a Switch without at least one of those games bundled this holiday.

May is a gift month, no not for Mothers Day in the US, but it's the time where kids are graduating High School and are going to College as well as those who are getting their Undergrad. Getting a Switch as a Grad present will be high ;)

Probably would have sold a lot more if Nintendo wasn't such a cheap ass small company.

You wanna go exclusive new IPs? Ok. TLoU remastered outsold Splatoon

http://www.vgchartz.com/game/80977/the-last-of-us/

http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=splatoon

And that was a remaster of a PS3 game so I would say its even more impressive

Point is Mario is Mario. Saying a game from a franchise that is recognized by billions of people (even non-gamers) outsold a franchise that is mostly know just within the gaming community isnt fair and you know it.

Uncharted 4 sold 8.7 million copies if thats not impressive than many games werent really impressive this gen. 90% of game developers would kill to have numbers like these on their games

edit: I did some research and the last offical numbers for MK8 put it at 8 million

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2016/10/mario_kart_8_has_now_sold_8_million_units_worldwide

while U4 is at 8.7 million

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/uncharted-4-sells-87-million-copies/1100-6446650/

And MK8 has been released for a lot longer than U4 so, unless I missed something, your numbers were wrong

Amazing attach rate for Zelda on the Switch. It wont mean anything though if it ends up doing the usual zelda life time numbers. Risk the switch by keeping the deck cleared for a bit longer for Zelda perhaps.

@bobrossperm: my brain hurts from trying to understand wtf you are saying.

@charizard1605 Time to update your thread as Nintendo has sold 2.4 Million Switches world wide, beating out their initial expectations of 2 million. Yeah, they really did made a lot of extra Switches.

Source

New news, new thread. I'll make it.

Competition is good. I don't understand why people are mad Nintendo is doing well.

I don't think Nintendo burned anyone with the Wii.

It went for a casual audience and was a massive success.

Casuals don't hold grudges with companies the same way some forumites here do.

They saw a product that looked fun and exciting, they gobbled it up. They played it, enjoyed it and then put it away and moved on. No hard feelings there. The same will be with the Switch.

They see a unique interesting product, and lo and behold it's selling at a fantastic rate. I don't think it will reach Wii levels, but i can see something like 40-50 million being reasonable.

There is no bad here. Even if you meant Wiiu in your post, the same logic applies. Casuals saw the WiiU and were not as interested, thus it didn't sell. They aren't going to brood in the corner and think Nintendo "owes them" for anything.

what I mean is, when Wii came on the scene it hit the casual market because of the motion controls and accessibility. Its not so much hard feels as it is I dont think the fringe casuals that they hit with the wii will be willing to come back to the switch for motion controls when they already have a wii. Its not so much about the content on the system as the system itself. The switch is focusing on portability which probably isnt going to hit home with a crazy amount of casuals like the wii did.

40-50 million is reasonable, wii numbers are crazy high

@aigis: Gonna go out on a limb and say 3DS numbers, which is 60-70 million.

Wii numbers not gonna happen though, yeah.

@charizard1605: I can see it if they keep up the momentum

I think they will surpass 3DS numbers! Damn.... E3 2017 can't come sooner..... Japan will be very dominant if one of those 20 UE4 is Final Fantasy VII and Kingdom Hearts 3. Of course Pokemon and Monster Hunter 5 will seal the deal.

I.. I actually agree with this statement. Nintendo has to pound and pound the portability of the switch and forgo the "Home console" talk. I think if they can successfully position this system as a viable 3DS replacement, they're good.

Pretty much what it boils down to. I can totally see this system surpassing 3DS numbers if the momentum keeps up.

Basically Nintendo games are bundled out the wazoo, hence the 50% Attach rates of games like Mario Kart 8. It's not that fucking hard really.

I think they can do it. If anyone can its Nintendo.

They have the eyes on them...good. Now is the time to keep the momentum with several strong releases. Zelda is not going to last forever.

I think E3 is going to be telling of where this system is going to go. They need more than just Mario Odyssey to capture gamers again.

Considering the amount of Korok seeds I have, this might actually take me forever i.i

@bobrossperm: Damn cows and lems are salty that Nintendo's exclusives are so much better than their own.

People still have to put down their money to buy it. That's the whole purpose of a bundle.

If it's not a system seller then the bundle doesn't sell. If it's a system seller then people pay their hard earned money for the console.

its funny the zelda attach rate is even mentioned. Is the only game it has....................the switch will be another wii/wiiu. It will have a handful of great nintendo games and collect dust the other 99% of the time. I cant support nintendo anymore, Im going to borrow my brothers wiiu to play zelda when hes donr, but Im not buying another nintend oconsole to many disappointments in a row.

And:

1. How many of those units are now sitting gathering dust with no decent games to play once people have finished Zelda.

2. How many of the 900,000+ units are replacement units from faulty hardware and scratched screens?

The Wii sold a huge amount of hardware but most people never used them as there was very little software choice compared to PS360.

I always said that having a Zelda game at launch was a major part of the Wii's success. The best part about the Switch is that it ensures the death of the Xbox brand. With a Switch and a PS4 Pro you have the hottest consoles out and Xbox is just looking like a dud.

Nice to see Nintendo fans getting back into the game with something to shout about.

@Vatusus: Only one thing to say to that post, "LolVGChartz"

At least I provided some sort of source for my arguments. goldenelementxl provided NONE.

Sometimes providing inaccurate information is worse than not presenting any at all. Besides my response is required by system wars

Do you have proof VGChartz is innacurate other then "lolVGChartz" tiresome meme?

Actually VGChartz hasnt been far too off from official numbers

see:

http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=uncharted+4

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/uncharted-4-sells-87-million-copies/1100-6446650/

People have been joking about VGChartz for long now. Are they too afraid they arent actually that wrong so that they dont loose their arguments?

My previous post puts Uncharted 4 official numbers over MK8 official numbers without using VGChartz. Thats better then putting sh*t out of your a** if you ask me

@Vatusus: Vgchartz sometimes uses official numbers, but most the time they just estimate and guess. Without an official number, we have no clue.

I don't really care either way, I don't follow links to VG Chartz, Polygon or Kotaku so I have no idea what the contents is.

VG Chartz has a reputation, that they have justly earned, and that is all links to their site deserve nothing more than a "LolVGChartz" response, it was even in the old System Wars survival guide. I'm just sticking with tradition.

Good for Nintendo, but since this is System Wars let me just say that the PlayStation 4 sold over 1 million the first day only in north America. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-sells-1-million-ps4s-on-day-one-in-north-america/1100-6416221/

@ButDuuude: During the Holidays.

With a November launch, great.

Also ignoring the fact that the Switch is supply constrained, which the PS4 never was.

The PlayStation 4 had a supply shortage that lasted for months! lol

http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/ps4-stock-shortages-could-last-until-april-sony-suggests

http://www.digitalspy.com/gaming/ps4/news/a516867/ps4-facing-four-months-of-uk-stock-shortages/

http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/24/technology/xbox-playstation-supply-shortages/

https://www.vg247.com/2014/03/21/ps4-stock-shortage-to-continue-until-northern-summer/

@ButDuuude: Ah well. Switch is definitely more supply constrained, since only 2 million were made (more PS4s were made).

Plus Holiday launch.

Zelda is that good, you need two copies...

Nintendo exclusives have been known to float my boat more than anything else, but there's no denying that games in general would sell less without bundles, and Nintendo loves bundles.

Zelda's attached rate would be high since Switch's game library is very small.

NO PS4 or xbox game had that attach rate on launch and there were few games on both.

This is true but both systems were competing with their already strong predecessor that were still cannibalizing their games.