![]() To suggest that the Nintendo Switch has sold MORE units in one month than the Nintendo Wii U had sold in one year is absolutely moronic fake news, but that's to be expected from an outfit such as CNBC. Between November 2012 and the end of March 2013 (again, LESS than a year), the Nintendo Wii U had sold 3.45 million units, compared to the Nintendo Switch's 2.74 million units. The Wii U released in November of 2012, so by March 2013, it would be less than half a year in. Source: Nintendo's super-awesome chart generator allowing you to compare unit sales. Look how the left-most blue bar (Wii U sales) is actually higher than the red bar (Nintendo Switch sales). Poor Wii U.ĬNBC author Chris Morris is reporting that the Nintendo Switch has sold more in one month than the Wii U has sold in its entire first year. Nintendo's projection to sell 10 million more Nintendo Switch systems by next year would basically put the Nintendo Switch, in one year and a month, at about the same number of consoles the Wii U sold over its shortened lifespan. That means those Nintendo Switch sales came from, y'know, diehard Nintendo fans. Somehow I think that the average American watching that Super Bowl ad, if they actually became interested in the Nintendo Switch, lost their interest when they found out that it's almost impossible to buy one. Source: of the Financial Results Briefing. Looks like the demographic profile of hardcore Nintendo fans to me. (Not including the costs to produce it, and however much it cost to license the song from Imagine Dragons.) ![]() Unless they aren't being straight with what they're calling advertising expenses, that means they spent most of their less-than-planned-for budget for the year on the Super Bowl LI ad for the Nintendo Switch, which cost 5 million dollars. ![]() Their advertising expenses for the year was 726 million yen, or about 6.5 million dollars. Too bad it wasn't enough to meet the demand.Īlso, they had “lower-than-expected advertising expenses”. Nintendo actually sold MORE Nintendo Switch than they had planned. Clearly, it was advantageous for Nintendo to launch the Switch in March as opposed to arbitrarily delaying it, despite people's claims that the Nintendo Switch launch was somehow “rushed.”īut there's some really interesting numbers regarding said Nintendo Switch launch.
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