 Hey folks, so we get to talk about Nintendo switch sales now I didn't cover the MPD from last Friday, so I'll go over a few details from the MPD But we're gonna be focusing on the recent release of the Nintendo switch What's just called the Nintendo switch sales charts in Japan because it's actually the sale charts for all of gaming in Japan But the Nintendo switch at this point owns 94% of the market in Japan. It's pretty crazy But before we get into that we are giving away a Nintendo switch or an Xbox Series X or a PlayStation 5 To enter head down to the description or the pinned comment to find out how we will be announcing the winner During a live stream at the end of the month. Alright, let's first take a look at the Femitsu numbers because that's what's new No more briefly touch upon the MPD. Here are the Femitsu numbers. I got this over at Reset era where there is this this person who always puts out the numbers every single week And as you see here the top 10 is all Nintendo switch games So Momotaro Densetsu Showa Hensei Rewi Mo Taiban I'm sure I totally butchered that name. That is the only game in the top 10 to see an increase in sales to 107,000 and 64 units on Nintendo switch I don't know anything about that game, but it is Clearly a big seller in Japan already at 1.6 million on switch at number two We have Animal Crossing New Horizons selling 36,000. It is now moved 6.5 million, you know, so it's got 6 million five hundred and fifty three thousand six hundred eighteen units down 20% week over week We have Ring Fit Adventure popping off here at thirty five thousand three hundred ninety seven That is now at two million two hundred thirty seven thousand three hundred and ninety eight units also down 20% week over week Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Chimes in at number four at twenty six thousand six hundred and thirty six units that has moved 3.6 million finally that is down 22% week over week in terms of the sales numbers new Super Smash Bros Ultimate chimes in at number five at seventeen thousand and ninety nine units that has now moved four million one hundred nine thousand three hundred and twenty seven units That is down 29% week over week in terms of the weekly sales Clubhouse games 51 worldwide classics at number six at fifteen thousand two hundred and ninety five units That has now moved six hundred one thousand three hundred eighty four units in that country down twenty seven percent Week over week that is at number seven. We have Minecraft Nintendo switch edition That is moved fourteen thousand four hundred and thirty units moving one million seven hundred and seventy four thousand eight hundred and forty Fourteen units at number eight. We have Splatoon two back in that top ten at eleven thousand six hundred and forty units moving three million seven hundred and forty three thousand seven hundred ninety eight units That's just a sixteen percent drop week over week. We have new sorry not new but Super Mario Party For Nintendo switch at number nine moving ten thousand and sixty nine units it has now moved one million seven hundred ninety seven thousand six hundred and seventeen units That's down twenty two percent week over week and then finally at number ten We have Pokemon sword and shield moving another nine thousand eight hundred and eighty two units that now sits at three million nine hundred and twenty nine thousand two hundred and forty six units down Eighteen percent likely gonna hit four million at some point this year If you can just kind of trickle at five to ten K sales per week for a while, so Kind of good news there What's interesting is that out of all this top ten all of the games Except for two our pump one really three are published by Nintendo Pokemon company technically gets credit for Pokemon Sword and Shield But we know Nintendo gets a healthy cut of the sales on that game So technically seven of the games are published by Nintendo That is huge all ten games are for Nintendo switch Why is that? Why is switch dominating? This is the second week in a row now where switches own the entire top ten Well, let's look at the hardware sales hardware this week Nintendo switch which combines switch light and the normal switch together and the normal switch is Way the predominant platform sold a hundred and seventy thousand six hundred and ninety one units That's actually slightly over three thousand unit increase over last week now last week Obviously saw a drop off over the week before but then at that point we were looking at Holiday sales numbers Which are obviously not realistic to hit holiday sales every week It seems like the switch is just kind of settling in there wasn't any major new release or anything The switch is just settling in at hey We're gonna be a system that's gonna sell over a hundred and fifty thousand units every single week for the foreseeable future I mean wait till 3d a smart 3d world was positive fury hits wait for monster hunter rise That's a big seller monster hunter is a big seller We're talking three four five million kind of seller in Japan and who knows the switch because everything is selling board and switch In fact, what's crazy about the software numbers just commenting on those for a moment is That's just physical That's just physical sales and we all know digital is making up a bigger share of the market every single year So who knows what numbers are really at except for Nintendo and what's exciting for Nintendo sales data is hey I think the first week of February Usually it's the last week of January, but they're doing it the first week of February this year Is an investors meeting and we're gonna get to actually get real sales update on everything from switch units To software units and all that all the way through December So we're gonna get all the holiday sales counted and it's gonna be it's gonna be very interesting to see where switch is Sitting lifetime to date and many of these games up here where they're sitting Lifetime to date in the whole world So yeah last year obviously Nintendo switch only sold ninety six thousand four hundred fifty eight units this week They kind of show that Nintendo switches basically doubled the amount of units It's selling week over week year over year now there has been some concern That switch might be At its at its peak in terms of its plateaued now and it's going to go down and that is because the MPD sales data had switch at number one For sales and in terms of unit sold and in terms of money made But the sales were basically flat with December of last year So when the sales in the US area are flat with the sales from last year it kind of suggests Okay, the switch is kind of plateaued and now it's gonna go down But as you're seeing in Japan that is clearly not the case the switch continues to gain momentum So is that really the case in the United States or did Nintendo just not get more enough units out there? They just produced the same amount of units for December both times. Who knows? We'll have to wait and see what MPD data is gonna say for switch in January And if it continues to see year on your growth because it was slightly up in December But it was pretty much flat according to Matt Piscotello Now you can see the breakdown here PlayStation 5 of course We're not gonna forget about our our next-gen brethren. We have well, I guess our current gen now 7,328 units down 4,000 units I don't know what is happening with PlayStation 5. In fact, if you scroll down here You're gonna see this chart here showing that PlayStation 5 can't even keep up with Wii U Now we know there's obviously a shortage of PS5 but There is a prevailing theory out there that PlayStation 5 is actually being De-prioritized in Japan by Sony since they moved their gaming stuff headquarters over to California So it's it's interesting all the marketing for PlayStation 5 by the way Some of it doesn't even have Japanese translations or Japanese versions. It's all in English So there's definitely some Devaluing of the PlayStation brand happening in Japan as we speak I mean you can look at PlayStation 4, which is nothing to snuff at over 9 million sales There's nothing to snuff at in a single country but PlayStation 5 is not doing well in I mean only 29,000 units switches at 650,000 for the year now granted switches in its heyday right now it is peeking or Still on the way up to the peak. So yeah, switch is going to obviously be outperforming everything But I mean it's barely ahead of the PlayStation 4 for the year PlayStation 4 is at 28,118 PlayStation 5 is 29,000 when you're barely able to beat the last-gen system It lets you know that the system might be dead in the water in Japan now They still have shortages. They're still selling out So who really knows but if they're selling out and there's only 7,000 units available this week in Japan Yeah, Japan is not being prioritized by Sony anymore and that's a little bit sad to see even as someone who is Mainly a Nintendo guy It is sad to see, you know a company whose home is in Japan was founded in Japan That they might be kind of just giving up on that market and that kind of makes Nintendo switch The only viable system goes 3ds, you know 546 units, you know, these are just trickle sales Nintendo doesn't even produce 3ds anymore Then you had the Xbox series, you know that includes the s and the x selling 160 units Which is up week over week with still, you know, it's not great Obviously 31,000 units is significantly less than the PlayStation 5, but Yeah, this is this is interesting switches. I mean, I think at this point We could safely determine that switch will likely pass 3ds sales in Japan this year or come close They sold almost 6 million last year in Japan. So it's gonna be close I don't know, you know, it switches still, you know climbing up the mountaintop Maybe it'll outsell the 3ds this year Switch is gonna end up being Nintendo's most successful platform. I think in Japan when it's all said and done So yeah, it's pretty crazy to see sales data. I mean, here's some additional points We can look out for this. You can see that over the years for switch 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 And you kind of see they all kind of start high because they're coming off the holidays, right? Except for 2017 of course, which starts over here since it launched in March and had a huge launch in Japan You know, not even the peak though last year it was Animal Crossing There's the Animal Crossing peak if you wanted to think what an animal crossing do to switch sales. Well More than launch more than launching a system done more than any holiday period. So What's interesting here though is that you see the switch 2020 was heading up and then even though it It knows dives here in 2021 it knows dive down to a hundred and seventy thousand ish units 160,000 and 170,000 whereas look at the nose dive in all the other years below 125 Below a hundred thousand below fifty thousand Not so this year and if this chart continues I mean you could see a trending upward trend or the switch might stay You know if the switch can somehow stay above a hundred fifty thousand It's gonna be like this all years start to really peak So we'll see Nintendo is is on to something here in Japan You could see you know your today sales 2020 was way ahead of everything else for switch 2021 is already starting ahead of that. So we'll have to see Nintendo probably has some major releases coming this year So yeah, so I'd talk briefly about the MPD There isn't They mean there's a lot of sales data the big take away the things that Call of Duty is continuing to show growth It continues to be a very strong IP. It looks like Assassin's Creed Valhalla is probably about over 10 million units at this point Which is really good for Assassin's Creed. So congrats to them. I actually find the game to be quite good on Xbox series X But you know to each their own I know some people are kind of fatigued on that on that kind of game from Ubisoft We obviously have had the Nintendo switch data where it was the best dollars and Unit sales for December the interesting part is it's the best dollar sales since 2008 Nintendo Wii 2008 Nintendo Wii was slightly ahead of Switches in terms of dollar sales now. You might say why is that? Well, there appears to be more unit sales of switch From in December in the US Then the Wii in 2008, but some of those unit sales were $200 DS lights Or DS lights a $200 dollar seal. Yeah, it's confusing a $200 switch lights versus Obviously the $300 $250. I guess I should say on Nintendo Wii So with all of them being that maybe the average average spend was obviously a little bit higher So I find it to be really cool I think switch is killing it again The US market is going to be to me the most interesting one because it is the one that showed a flat line Essentially, but from December to December even though November was significantly bigger So we'll see what happens It could have just been as simple as Nintendo didn't get enough units out there to do a have a better December Or it simply put the man maybe he's going down now as we're starting to get out of the pandemic Is it too early? It's probably too early to say that yet. I know our health care workers police officers other personnel out there are being vaccinated at this point But I would not say that we are obviously out of you know, COVID we're still very much dealing with COVID So very much having to wear masks everywhere. So very much having businesses closed down Schools affected homeschooling all that jazz. So we're definitely not out of the woods with any of it yet In fact, we are we I hope we get out of it at some point in 2021 But who really knows we might just be stuck in this for another year Hopefully not too But life will find a way as it always does and the Nintendo switch continues to find a way This platform here is the most dominant platform I've seen in quite some time I thought the 3ds did okay for itself did extremely well in japan, but just okay worldwide Yes, 75 million nothing the scoff had but 75 million What's that mean? I mean this thing's already passed. It's already outsold the 3ds, you know It it this thing Is going to become nintendo's best-selling, you know home console for sure It's going to outsell the we right 101 million or whatever. It's going to outsell the we I'm starting to wonder If it maintains this momentum, you know in japan and the rest of the world all through 2021 Which it very well might if it has the right game lineup. I think animal crossing was a big moon last year came at the right time clearly Uh, you must enter rise to come at the right time in japan. Well, you know, I don't know how big that's going to be here Out in the west What about, you know, if we get a breath of the wild to if we get another mario Odyssey game or something nintendo has a path here depending on what they release this year to continue to be a massive seller So if that happens and switch continues to blow up and this is me even hoping that we get revised switch hardware Which is always going to help So if they release, you know, even more powerful switch, that would be fantastic I don't think that ruins momentum at all. I think it just maintains momentum I think that nintendo It feels weird saying this but they have a puncher's chance to do ds type numbers A puncher's change Now this is going to require them to sell 20 million a year for the next two three years. Okay, that's that's a big ask It's a really big ask, but it's an impossible In fact, isn't impossible for switch to sell 30 million units in 2021 Or should say fiscal year 2021 2022 since that's how nintendo counts it. Is it impossible? I would not say it is I think nintendo probably probably is going to end up selling close to 24 25 million this fiscal year So a 5 million increase if momentum continues the way it is Sure, or the switch is already plateaued and we're going to start coming down. I don't know All I know is i'm really happy that I own a switch. I'm pretty happy with the platform despite some of its obvious flaws Joy con drippy and some of the worst or for me The fact that these caps came off quite easy. I don't know if you guys can see that But that's my kids fault more than anything. I don't think if I was the only one using the switch that would ever happen I'm sure my kids picked at them or something But I've never had caps come off that easy on any of my other controllers, you know like Such pro I know these are different control sticks. I don't even think these things come off I'm kind of surprised they're removable to be honest, but Hey, it is what it is. I'm I'm good. I'm I'm I'm a pretty happy gamer over here Got lots to play lots on the agenda. Super Mario 3d world plus bowser's fury coming up here. I can't wait to play that one Um, yeah, that's what I got. Catch you guys in the next video