 Hey everyone today, we're going to talk about some interesting news that actually comes from a certain person who is intimately familiar with the MPD report and Just how successful the switch is first year has been So this comes from Matt Piscotella Who is a person who works with the MPD group on industry analysis? So he has direct access to all the data at the MPD and for those who don't know the MPD is a group that tracks Sales data of physical copies of games and hardware and all that great stuff They actually track like the whole gambit of retail, but not just video games But obviously we're talking about video games in this case and he tweeted out that the switch US physical software sales are on pace to be the biggest ever for a Nintendo platform launch year since 1995 and by a fairly large margin and Why 1995 is significant is because that's the very first year that they track the data So they have not you know This does not include that NES or the Super Nintendo in terms of its launch year It doesn't you know include the Game Boy or any that stuff But it obviously has n64 since that launched in 1996 in the US It has the GameCube. It has the Wii the Wii U Obviously DS and all that stuff in between so He clarified that this meant The first 12 months so not later the console launched in November and only had one month of sales data Obviously a full year of sales data or even six months of sale data for Nintendo switch Would have a huge advantage, but that's not the case. He's talking about a full calendar year So the first 12 months from launch until 12 months later switch has the best Software sales forget the hardware right hardware numbers We don't have any exact updates and maybe the MPD doesn't have exact updates either Maybe they're just allowed to tell Nintendo and it's up to Nintendo to release that data But they do track software specifically So it's crazy to me to think that these switch and we're not even we're not even at the one-year mark Right the one-year mark isn't till March 3rd 2018 and it is on pace and currently shattering Nintendo's own records for first year sales. That is insane And a lot of it has to do with the fact that one the switch is obviously a really popular device and to the Software sales and the software releases have been extremely strong Starting off with Breath of the Wild and then you also have to consider Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and arms with tune and Mario Odyssey coming up Mario Flaserabbit's Kingdom Battle and this isn't even getting into some of the successful third-party games like Street Fighter To the ultimate edition or whatever that's called. There's so many versions Street Fighter 2 and and Puyo Puyo Tetris and Snipper Clips, which is a digital Whatever the point is is that the software sales are insanely good And this is surprising on many levels because the Wii was Nintendo's previously most successful system ever in terms of home consoles right hundred million units sold and a lot of that was You know the first few years had huge software release after huge software release after huge software release You know we're talking Wii sports and we fit even and just dance in there And Mario Galaxy you include all these games that released in the very first year of the Wii's lifetime and Switches on pace to shatter. Absolutely shatter those sales now. Obviously. This is just includes physical But what's even more true about that is since the Wii era was probably Nintendo's most successful launch year in terms of software sales Digital really was kind of new back then for Nintendo So most of those sales would have been physical sales So the fact that their physical sales are gonna shatter that not including any of the digital sales of any of these games Nintendo software sales this first year for Nintendo switch are probably the highest Nintendo has had in the history of the company outside of maybe the NES and Super Nintendo But you know what with digital sales included it's very possible that even though we'll never know for sure unless Nintendo tells us themselves Yeah, switch is on pace to have the most successful launch year Software-wise in Nintendo's history and that is just mind-boggling because remember what has always been the reputation for Nintendo It has no games. I've heard so even some people will switch. There's nothing to play on switch There's 18 games releasing just this week 18 of them today my one of my most anticipated games of the year on switch golf story released And no, I don't have golf story right now I was actually about five bucks short of getting it on off the e-shop. Thank my prior video for spending some of my e-shop credit on the Mario bros arcade classic, but yeah, it's it's whatever. I'll eventually get the game But yeah, it's a whole week of 18 games I know a lot of that digital only one physical release we're talking about FIFA 18 And yeah FIFA 18 for all my criticism of it. Yeah, it looks like a solid game I never thought that FIFA 18 would be anything but a solid game. I just think it could be better I Expect better and maybe I expect too much. I don't know but this is just exciting When we think about why why is Bethesda hopping on board? Why is 2k hopping on board? Why are these third-party Western Studios starting to think hey, look, we should really get on the switch hype train The software sales are backing up the reason to do it doom and the Wolfenstein are probably gonna perform really well Skyrim I mean despite being an old game is probably gonna perform very well in reality The switch is it in a spot right now where it's very hard to be so critical of it that you think Nintendo is doomed in fact one of the one of the replies was oh, Nintendo's doing really really well So they must be doomed again, and yeah, that's just a general reputation that a lot of Nintendo haters have had for a long time Hoping that Nintendo's third-party and maybe they want Nintendo games on their PlayStation 4s and Xbox ones and PCs I have no idea and I don't blame them because Nintendo games are fantastic But tenders not going anywhere anytime soon The software success just boggles my mind like the fact that this is more successful than the Wii era I didn't think that was even possible for any platform holder ever in the future, especially Nintendo themselves Even with the strong lineup they've had for switch. It's crazy to me to think man They have this intense lineup of games, but it's still they could only get like 10 million of these units out And there's no way it's gonna cripple sales Apparently switch owners like myself are buying tons of games and yeah I mean if you just look here, I'll just show you a little bit of my own library What do I got near 12? You know 12 plus games or so and I plan to get golf story and some other games here coming up soon Yeah, it's insane to me to think of how popular The switch is and how many games people are by I'm actually curious what the game selling to Console purchasing ratio really is I would love to see Nintendo update the overall switch software to switch Harbour sales so we can actually see what the attach rate is I wouldn't be surprised if we're looking at something nuts something like eight eight to one nine to one attach rate It would not surprise me at all and that would obviously include digital sales in there as well But I'm just so thrilled for the switch for all my criticisms of things that Nintendo does right I got quite a bit of flak for the last video also quite a bit of defenders It'll be interesting prime comments this week, but When you just look at the whole of Nintendo right now They are doing so well and they deserve to be doing well the switch is a hit product for all of the right reasons That's what I love so much about this new generation of Nintendo this new attitude seemingly for Nintendo where they start caring about their parties is that Nintendo is having a hit for the right reasons and Well, I guess the right reasons is totally subjective You know, there's plenty people who love the we in the DS era would including myself For very different reasons in the switch era, but I feel like they are they are becoming a success by showing they care about gamers again and That's just awesome. Thank you, Nintendo I wish you tons of success in the future keep bringing these strong library of games keep bringing on these third-party companies because This you know as much as this is the strong a very strong launch year for switch. I think it can get even better I don't think you're done yet. I don't think you're peaking. I think there is still You know a higher peak to achieve good luck Nintendo and I hope all of you guys out there switch on Or people considering device which Enjoy your time and in fact everyone enjoy your time playing games because as I have to often remind people we play games for fun It doesn't matter how good you are. It doesn't matter what games you enjoy. 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