Famitsu: Switch Sold 330,637 Units in Japan - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 07 March 2017 / 8,847 Views
The Nintendo Switch sold 330,637 units in Japan during its first three days on sale, according to Famitsu. This compared to the 308,570 units the Wii U sold in its first week in December 2012.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild sold 193,060 units in Japan. This does not include digital copies sold.
Thanks Gematsu.
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I am shocked that there wasn't a closer 1:1 ratio for Switch and Zelda sales. I find it hard to imagine anybody buying it for anything other than Zelda, unless it's people who get off on being early adaptors. The Japanese have a lot of faith in Nintendo, it seems.
1-2 Switch pulled off good numbers there, it seems.
with Digital it will be very close to 1:1
@Areym. Why? Those kind of games sell well in Japan. Japan was the only country where Wii Sports wasn't bundled, and it still sold gangbusters.
Well, Wii Sports was charming, 1-2 Switch is just, in my honest opinion, dumb. Obviously I have not played it but the minigames look so dumb and gimmicky and simple. Different people, different taste but I just cannot fathom people playing 1-2 Switch unironically. The same could have been said for Wii Sports but they had the good sense of bundling it with the Wii. You cannot look me in the eyes with a straight face and tell me 1-2 Switch is not a glorified demo disc.
@Areym. I get what you mean, even though I really like Wii Sports unironically. 1-2 Switch should have been a packaged game. I wonder why didn't they just bundle it digitally.
In Japan Dragon Quest Heroes was a launch game.... which is a massively popular game there. Also they had more on the E Shop in Japan (Neo Geo games). I think that explains the disparity
Hmm, according to VGC:
3DS had 374K
http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/40601/Japan/
PS Vita had 322K
http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/40895/Japan/
DS had 458K
http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/38326/Japan/
PSP had 163K
http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/38333/Japan/
To compare Switch with it's real predecessors. The real test will be post-launch anyways. Everything sells good at launch.
Any news on worldwide numbers? Do we know if the Switch has reached 1m or not?
Not yet. But 330K in Japan alone is a really good sign. I'm sure we'll know US numbers soon
Not yet.But with the number we know(which puts roghly higher than 500k) and assuming that the Americas sold at least 500 k(with it being the best Nintendo launch there), it easily passed 1 millions, and that number is probably reached without data from many countries, invludong european ones.
I would be rather shocked if it hasn't reached a million yet.
From what we know...
330 + 80 + 105 + (at least) 400k, yes, it is completely possible, we don't have all the data and USA looks to be bigger than Wii's 600k, so yes.
almost certainly. Japan at over 300k, Europe at over 300k, and North America is almost always larger than both in sales so. Then the rest of the world... seems almost certain
