 An MPD leak exists that is making some people freak out now the MPD for November officially releases tomorrow Matt Piskatella the one who usually gives us all of the details on the gaming side of the MPD Usually details everything on Tuesday. He already has the data now today would be the data He's compiling the data and getting out all the different forms and different You know graphs or whatever he wants to put together from that data when he releases it publicly tomorrow for the gaming Side of things don't remember the MPD tracks everything in the United States It's not just a gaming specific thing, but for gaming purposes. That's what we care about and the interesting thing I've seen and I initially heard about this in a comment on a Video I made yesterday was that you know switch had a bad month because it was performing underneath the PlayStation 4 by 120,000 units well the data's in and Let's just say That is a really interesting way to summarize up the performance of Nintendo switch They're not wrong at least based on the data. I have now But it's not exactly a bad thing Let me explain so the leak essentially says this and again, this is a leak This is not the confirmed final data Although these leaks that usually happen a couple days beforehand are typically correct because it's coming from people Access to the MPD already, but are not not supposed to anyways be releasing public numbers yet Anyways, basically year-on-year switch is up 75 percent in sales. That means 75 percent Better than it performed last November last November it performed pretty well So being up 75 percent on that is pretty amazing switch is down 39 percent according to this leak PlayStation 4 is down 13% Xbox one is only down 3% and then other which would be like NES classics and that's classic Stuff like that PlayStation classic, which I guess is new. Oh, I think that release this month is down 6% The top-selling physical releases according to this leak or Red Dead Redemption 2 I mean duh black ops for Call of Duty. What a surprise and then Pokemon. Let's go Pikachu and Eevee. Hello But assuming that all this data is true someone was able to extrapolate the numbers now It's interesting when we talk about these numbers here because the MPD does not actually give us exact numbers anymore That means in the entire life of Nintendo switch. There has never been numbers reported by the MPD It has been many many years since the MPD gave us numbers. This was at request of the Platform holders that exact figures were not given so that being said these figures are estimations, however Their estimations because what the MPD report does do is it says? Oh, it's an increase over last year which was the increase over the year or decrease this it will and it go Basically people are able to track these up and downs all the way back to when they used to release actual sales reports on Older platforms so when the sales get compared month to month year to year They're able to go back far enough that if you actually keep track of it You can get a pretty good approximation of what the numbers were now This is why it's important to understand these numbers We're gonna you're gonna hear these approximations are pretty accurate based on very very old sales data That you've had to track every single month a year over a year when making these comparisons but somebody did all the math threw it all together and These are the rough estimations that would come up with based on this leak And it is that PlayStation 4 led November with one million four hundred and seventy eight thousand units sold Right behind that was Nintendo switch at one million three hundred and fifty six thousand units And then behind that this is a very tight month by the way Xbox one at one million three hundred and forty two thousand units This is the first time that all three major platform holders this generation have been over one million in a single month So that's notable as well that the systems in general were selling well Although obviously Xbox one and PlayStation 4 particularly a 13% drop had technically worse numbers and last year Showing a slight decline probably as those systems are starting to get to the end of life Well, Nintendo switch saw a 75% increase meaning that it didn't sell over a million in the US last November but it did this time and It did was able to become the number two best-selling system instead of the number three So good on Nintendo for that now again I have to stress this because a lot of people that brought these numbers up to me that I've been trying to verify for about the past I don't know 18 hours or so Have been kind of touting. This is because the Nintendo switch despite Pokemon. Let's go picture. Let's go EVs release Couldn't top PlayStation 4 as a negative which makes no sense to me Nintendo switch has never really impacted PlayStation 4 sales, right? The entire time that switch has been you know skyrocketing in sales and all that the past year and a half PlayStation 4 sales have stayed really really high as well So there hasn't meant a lot of crossover in terms of people buying a switch instead of a PlayStation 4 or PlayStation 4 instead of a switch In fact, there's actually a lot of crossover where people own both Platforms and that's their way to game. There's PC switch owners PlayStation 4 switch owners Xbox switch owners, etc Obviously you still have people who just buy into one system right now I currently only have one system in my house although I've used to have an Xbox and it probably will have another one and a PlayStation 4 here over the next year But that's besides the point what I am trying to get at here is that these numbers are not bad at all You can't eat have an increase of 75 percent year over year and call that bad I mean think about that that that's 75 percent is almost a hundred percent increase That would mean you slice those numbers in half Nintendo sold what you know 800,000 units last last November and this year thanks to Pokemon and sold, you know Almost 1.4 million hard to be upset at those figures just because they finished behind PlayStation 4 And yes, I know that the touting is all PlayStation 4 didn't have any big Exclusives, I don't know Red Dead Redemption 2 and Call of Duty are pretty big games I know they're not exclusive, but those are gonna move units and lo and behold the two systems those games are on Moved a lot of units. Is that a shocker here? I mean I was supposed to ignore that those games do have in like if anything Red Dead Redemption 2 and Call of Duty Black Ops 4 show how much AAA third-party support actually matters and why if those games were on switch switch Might have been the top dog because you would have people wanting to play those games on the go So again triple a third-party games are actually important for console sales I've been saying this for years and years and years and it's one of the major things Nintendo lacks that would honestly put their systems at Astronomical numbers if they could have all the great stuff They have going now plus the triple a third-party support, but again, there's various reasons why that hasn't happened So yeah, these sales are really good. Nintendo switch is killing it Assuming these numbers are true now. We'll get more exact figures a better a better idea. How well Pokemon Let's go picture that's EV sold and all that we'll get all those figures tomorrow Plus Nintendo in like these figures, you know these ruler triggers are really really good So Nintendo is likely to come out and give us updated numbers now remember at the end of Cyber Monday They did tell us that lifetime to date switch had sold 8.2 million in just the US and that Pokemon Let's go Pikachu Let's go EV so 1.5 million in the US, but you know those that wasn't the whole of November numbers So Nintendo might give us another update tomorrow because usually when the NPD comes out Companies if they had a very very good month will come out and tout just how good that month really was So I expect to see some pretty Good numbers from Nintendo tomorrow at least based on the numbers They had already given us for just like a five-day period of November. So in other words Yeah, I think things are going well for switch And I don't think that it finishing behind PlayStation 4 is indicative of anything The only thing I could think of on why people are saying this is because they want switch to fail I guess I mean How you can't have a 75% sales increase you over a year and call it out of failure or call Pokemon Let's go future. Let's maybe not a system seller when that sold more units of Mario and Zelda combined last holiday so I the the bottom line is that Nintendo switch is doing great and Anyone who likes to tell you anyways cares way too much about console wars and somehow thinks a hundred and twenty-two thousand Unit difference when all the systems were around 1.4 million Really truly honestly matters when it doesn't I'm actually happy for all three systems Because you know what that means all three systems are healthy as of now Remember how like the Xbox one was so far behind the PlayStation 4 and blah blah blah blah Well, I mean look at this the holiday numbers are tight Meaning that Xbox one has gained a little bit of traction at least I don't want to say it's gained ground PlayStation 4 still selling it but it's gained some traction and what that means is people who like Xbox have Reasons to buy Xbox now probably due to Red Dead Redemption 2 running best on Xbox one X But still it's a reason to buy an Xbox one X PlayStation 4 obviously still has all their killer exclusives over the past few years especially And obviously Nintendo switches all their exclusives, you know, not just the Pokemon. Let's go feature. Let's go Maybe they have all the 2017 exclusives. There were some this year Octopad travelers and your Kirby star allies I think our ones that are probably worth owning in my opinion and then on top of that You know we had smash coming up or that released in December and the December numbers because if smash bros broke records in the United States which it seems to have broken records everywhere else So if it broke records in the US It's possible that switch might sell even more in December than it did last month and last month had the black Friday through cyber Monday period Which is where Nintendo sees a massive chunk of sales now to put this even in perspective for just the month of November That one point, you know, three five six million units sold for switch I mean they had only sold like what was it two or three million over the first half of the year So in one month, they already matched like, you know An entire quarter worth the sales for them from earlier this year in one month and remember this quarter isn't just November It includes October and includes December. So in just the US alone Nintendo potentially Might move. Oh, I don't know four five million this quarter Which is quite a bit and then you add in the sales from other territories and you could be looking at Nintendo switch You know potentially moving closer to 10 million units this holiday, which would be not necessarily on track to hit 20 million But then again if they have fire emblem landing if new Super Mario Brothers you deluxe keeps the momentum going What happens if they sell an extra million in January in just the US? Happens if they sell an extra million another month because of fire emblem And there's some there's some potential here to get close to those 20 million figures Nintendo has out there But it's hard to really be upset here I mean Nintendo switch at a 75% increase according to these numbers. So it's still behind PlayStation 4 You know what that means PlayStation 4 has just been consistently doing astronomical numbers Every single holiday and it really has been since day one. So that's you know There's no reason to knock PlayStation 4 for switch to be successful like all three platforms were highly successful in November And I think that's important to keep in mind and you shouldn't really care Who's on top as long as the company that you are shipping the company that you? Believe in the company that you are a fan of is is doing well. It doesn't matter if they're on top or not Okay, PlayStation 4 won the generation. There's no there's no denying this. It's fine. Let them win the dinner It's it's okay. Everyone that looks like they're happy right now at least based on sales. So That's a pretty sweet world to be in because it's pretty rare that we've been in a situation where three Platforms together are all performing. Well at the exact same time like early, you know last generation Xbox 360 not County Wii U of course Xbox 360 we and PlayStation 3 it was Xbox 360 and we Just coming firing out the gates and then we kind of fell off after two to three years Then PlayStation 3 picked up momentum and then was PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 doing well so it's been rare that we've had all three platform holders doing well at the same time and it's happening right now this holiday series season so This is an exciting time to be a gamer. That's what that tells me Anyways, folks, I'm Nathan Rovegen from Nintendo Prime and if you liked this video, you know what to do And if you dislike the video, I mean that sucks I guess hit the dislike button. Be sure to enter our Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Nintendo switch giveaway Whoo, you know what I'll just get you guys in the next one