Nintendo: Switch Sell-Through Sales 'Has Surpassed 30 Million Units as of the End of January' - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 March 2019 / 5,169 Views
Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa announced worldwide sell-through sales of the Nintendo Switch has surpassed 30 million units by the end of January.
"Cumulative global sell-through, including sales outside of the major markets you saw on the previous slides, has surpassed 30 million units as of the end of January, and the Nintendo Switch business is on a trajectory for further growth," said Furukawa. "Also, all of the new titles released in succession during the holiday season also showed exceptional sales."
Nintendo also revealed it had shipped 32.27 million units of the Nintendo Switch as of December 31, 2018. That would leave more than two million units on store shelves and in transit at the end of the year.
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Time to make some more adjustments. I had a feeling this site overtracked Switch this holiday, most likely in EU.
I knew vgchartz overtracked the switch during december. They had switch outselling ps4 by 1 m in europe in December which was crazy.
Way to go switch!! Great console!
Can't wait for E3
So :
32.27 million units of the Nintendo Switch shipped as of December 31, 2018.
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More than 30 million units of the Nintendo Switch sold as of January 31, 2019.
So 2M in transit is the new constant ? Because I see that the Switch numbers of FY2017 have taken a huge hit...
It's probably more due to the holidays. With both Smash and pokemon coming, it was sure for retailers that the Switch will be big that holiday season, and thus ordered in large quantities to make sure they have enough stock, thus building up that 2M+ reserve that they currently have. Sell-through will be better the next quarters, though that possibly means a small hit in shipments during this quarter.
Jan. 5th chart should drop down to 29 million then
