Sales of the Nintendo Switch have continued to be successful in Japan. Famitsu released sales data for the week of March 19th, which resulted in the Switch selling 52,000 units. This means that, in Japan, the Switch has sold 4,037,144 units. Surpassing the 4,000,000 mark, the Switch managed to achieve this with the console at just 56 weeks old. Believe it or not, this is not far off from the Wii, which reached the same milestone in Japan just 54 weeks into the Wii’s life.
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And I believe that the Switch suffered from a worse shortage because of the whole Wii U debacle
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It’s now surpassed the GameCube in lifetime sales in Japan, so by your logic this means the Wii suffered a horrible shortage due to the GameCube debacle.
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I’m pretty sure he means that as a good thing. In spite of the bad stock (as we all know, Nintendo utterly sucks at keeping stock; I’d honestly say they are pretty shitty at it) for most of Switch’s 1st year on the market, it managed to sell very well in a lot of places. (Wii had pretty bad stock, too, now that I recall.)
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The Switch could outsell the Wii U by only counting Japan Switch sales!
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this author seems to be turning a blind eye to the fact it’s also officially now outsold the GameCube in lifetime sales in Japan, so the GameCube and Wii U were Nintendo’s “failures”.
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I don’t think the Gamecube was a failure
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Absolutely not, Reaver- it is home to several of my favorite games, including Luigi’s Mansion and F-Zero GX.
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In fact the GameCube bringed so many good games. Except for one that Nintendo cancelled for no reason
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||What does that have any relevance to at all?…||
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You guys are all living in fantasy land. Whether you liked it or not, the Gamecube was a *TREMENDOUS* disappointment and failure for Nintendo as a business and marked them being completely knocked off the perch they had established with the NES. Whether or not you like the gamecube games has no relevance on whether or not the platform was successful.
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Yeah the GameCube was definitely not a failure, it is probably my favorite console of all time.
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Definitely a failure, it was the third-selling console of its generation, near half the sales of a Nintendo 64. I did regret buying it and ended up with an Xbox. Still it had some very good games, but too late for me. Also Mario was a major tìdisappointment for me, and Zelda what I wasn’t expecting.
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I love Gamecube and plenty of it’s games & it’s definitely superior to Wii U but it was sadly a failure.
That aside, this doesn’t really surprise me. It’s Japan, after all. You know. The country obsessed with portability.
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