 Everybody panic the Nintendo switch lost the holiday sale season Well, all right Let's let's dial it back a bit. So we have some information on the November MPD It technically releases next week So we might have another video on this with exact numbers and more data But it appears Nintendo switch fell to the number three spot this holiday season or at least November Here's what we know. I'm gonna read this this comes from reset era the report itself comes from a Mizzou securities equity research They sent out a monthly update on US and Japan console game sales to their clients And this person at recent era could not publish the actual report because that would be a breach of contract But they did give some information And here's what he says And by the way, this company uses the MPD numbers. So the MPD numbers usually get passed around before they become public So here's here's what this user on reset era said game hardware including the SNES classic as etc Sales volume in the US was up 44% in November And that's a cumulative April through November fiscal 13 18 below we're up 38% or fiscal year three. Sorry A lot a lot of information the dissect here. It says while software sales were up 2% The PlayStation 4 came out on top for hardware sales with a likely large impact from black friday sales Again, you can get a PlayStation 4 for 200 and under on black friday The xbox one which launched the new high spec x console came in second Both consoles saw roughly a 40 growth year on year Just as an fyi because we know what the sales of the systems were last november That means PlayStation 4 sold roughly 1.5 million units in the us in november Just just to kind of give you Where the top dog was at there Moving on the switch saw a large increase in sales volume in comparison to october But we still sense that the trends are slowing down We do not explicitly forecast monthly sales volumes in each region But we have the impression that the us sales volume for the switch in november was within expectations Nintendo's hardware sales tend to see strong trends in december Thanks to a seasonal demand and thus we believe the sales will grow month on month in december And then there's a little side note to this call of duty world war 2 was the most popular game sold in november And it was the number one seller and the PlayStation 4 version of it was the top selling one xbox one second No surprise pc's usually nowhere near that those kind of sales and the second best selling game was super mario odyssey Which obviously we know is a switch exclusive Uh, and to say there's no specific numbers in the update, but the included fingers seem to show PlayStation 4 Was about two to one to switch and xbox one was marginally Maybe 10 less than playstation 4. So a playstation 4 sold 1.5 million Maybe you know xbox sold 1.4 million or so again, they did launch new hardware this holiday And then that's about twice as much as switch So if you put that in perspective switch sold, you know, roughly 700 800 000 units So is that a bad thing? Is it a bad thing that switch lost to playstation 4 and xbox one so handily? no I don't actually Put a lot of stock in this and there's a few reasons one switch would have been the most expensive base model Out there on the market this holiday you had xbox one s and the base xbox one and playstation 4 and playstation 4 All selling at $200 or less coming with games packaged in For most of november not just during black friday and cyber monday and all that stuff But most of november that seemed to be the case a lot of companies were discounting these platforms a week before black friday Whereas switch did not come with a game unless you bought a more expensive pack like the splatoon The splatoon 2 or the mario pack out at like walmart or something, which is like 380 bucks And I had to admit when I went out it was not impossible to find that bundle Every walmart I went to had the splatoon 2 bundle in stock Throughout the entire holiday season and I went to four different ones So that should give me an idea that people weren't hot really all too keen on spending $380 on a nintendo switch But I did see a lot of the $300 units sell out now You could say well nintendo they must be underperforming they couldn't even sell over a million units in their first holiday period Well, they didn't launch now Xbox was likely helped not just because of the cheaper the cheaper xbox one s I actually think this indicates that the xbox one x had a pretty strong start out the gate There's usually a lot of early adapters And I won't even be surprised if around 1 million people picked up the xbox one x during launch in november It's just a number that makes sense to me And I know it's not that hard to get your hands on an xbox one x there are tons of stores That still have more of them and microsoft over delivered for demand on the xbox one x But I mean the sales don't lie the xbox one had a nice bounce back this holiday And I'm not too concerned that switch is behind all of this As I said no bundled in games for the base price Uh and 300 is a lot to swallow For what some people might perceive as a handheld system We saw this issue with the pricing actually on the 3ds too But the big note is that the sales practically doubled for switch from october to november And nintendo sales trends kind of show that there's going to be even more units selling in december In fact nintendo switch may even be likely to crack a million in sales this month Because unlike the other platforms where the prices go back up that that makes switch more price competitive After the sales season and people start to do all their last-minute shopping for the holidays And again, it's you an increase in sales now switch maintained its sales lead in japan You know every single week in november and and so far in december, so This is just mostly a us thing But yes nintendo switch was in third place fourth place was the snes classic edition We don't have any specific numbers for it, but it was suggested in this report that the snes classic was behind the switch Which makes sense. Uh, they probably didn't get 700 000 snes classics out there november um so yeah, I The I was asked a lot not just by one particular person, but I saw this question happen Um probably a dozen or so times Uh over the past three weeks where a lot of you guys asked me Who do that? Who did I think was going to win the holiday season? And obviously if we're just talking about the month of november PlayStation 4 and xbox for big winners here, uh switch kind of maybe underperformed Uh for what some of you guys might have expected then again Uh, they are saying that switch actually met expectations for sales this holiday and maybe that that's I feel like this is good Believe it or not switch began in the position it is I think is good even getting trounced by xbox one I don't think this is a big deal We're talking about two platforms that launched at 400 plus dollars years ago that are now half off Plus we have a brand new platform launching xbox one x and nintendo switch is a brand new product that came out this year That doesn't have any discounts yet and by next holiday. I guarantee bare minimum They're going to be able to be like look during the holidays. You can buy a switch for 300 And get a game Or maybe two games or maybe three games or maybe nintendo will knock 50 bucks off the price, you know for black friday Uh, this to me just bodes well because the switch starting at a price point that was lower than those consoles in the first place Yes, obviously the PlayStation 4 xbox one xbox one x they're also going to continue to get cheaper as the years move forward Um, and that's always going to present a problem This is always going to be a unique problem for nintendo because they launched this console mid generation Uh, well other companies were doing mid generation refreshes Nintendo's like hey, look, we're going to give you a whole brand new platform because the wii u is just not selling Uh, it's just an interesting perspective to see what's going to happen I I don't think this means anything for the switch's sales the switch's sales have been highly consistent month to month to month And I don't think that's going to change I think what we see here with the switch now that nintendo has enough units out there to meet demand Is that we're seeing a leveling off period where it might still increase in december and it's obviously going to have a drop off in january But that there's this consistent 200 to 300 thousand unit mark that nintendo is going to be able to sell every single month and I feel like That's more important than winning the holiday season like why is PlayStation 4 so dominant in the sales charts every single year It's not because they win the holiday which they normally do But it's because they usually win the sales every single month They consistently sell 200 to 300 sometimes 400 thousand units every single month So if nintendo can sit in that range every single month, they're going to be fine So this isn't a panic button. This isn't me talking about how I'm worried about nintendo In fact, I think this is pretty good for their very first holiday season And it wasn't a launch during the holiday like if they had launched in the holiday nintendo would have shattered it They sold 2.7 million Back during launch month if they had launched in november god You're talking about if they had enough units they could have broke launch records They could have sold three four five million of these things But that's not what happened. So without early adopters without a super price cut You're looking at you know people being willing to spend 300 dollars on a non-discounted item during the holidays and For that 700 thousand units roughly we'll get exact numbers next week. I'm good with that I'm pretty pretty content With those figures And the fact that the analyst groups here think that hey, you know what like nintendo's going to sell even more in december Because they usually sell more in december than november That's a good sign for switch as well. It means that they see the growth continuing They just see that you know the rapid fire like if anyone was expecting switch We like sell 1.5 or 2 million units or sell out every single unit possible during the holidays They were saying people who anyone who thought that was going to happen probably were over projecting The value of a 300 system with no discounts But anyways, I'm pretty happy with this. You guys let me know what you think Obviously, we've had a pretty eventful week with the announce of mega man 11 And that's not even like the biggest announcement, right? We got bayonetta three announced of the game awards the breath of the wild dlc Just came out. Uh, hopefully we'll have a conversation on that coming up I might be bringing back zelda inquiries just so I can get some zelda experts on the panel Uh and talk at length about um our experiences with that dlc And whether or not we feel like it was you know one worth the weight two worth the money Um and three, you know just in general how we feel about some of the new additions And yes, I am going to warn and I'll warn this when we release all the inquiries that uh It is going to contain spoilers because we are literally going to be talking about everything to do with the dlc pack The champions ballad as it were, uh, so yeah You guys let me know what you think about this news about the mpd and about the switch of sales Are you happy with it? Are you not happy with it? Does it not really matter because none of this money goes to our pockets Um, it's all of all perceptions for us as gamers What we have to deal with is perceptions and is this a good perception for switch Or are a lot of fans going to be like, hey, look xbox one PlayStation 4 rocking look at switch It lost it lost it lost even though it's won like six of the last eight months Anyways, I'm Nathaniel ruffle dance from nintendo prime and if you like this video, you know what to do And if you dislike the video hit that dislike button subscribe content And I'll catch you in the next one