 Hey everyone, I'm going to do something a little bit different with the video today, kind of a different format. You can kind of see in the background here what I'm talking about with me on screen. Let me know how you like this in comparison to the one where I'm in like the small corner or whatever. Just trying something new, trying something fresh. But we're going to be talking about the Nintendo Switch sales charts when it comes to Japan specifically because the Femitsu numbers are in and as you can see on the screen right now, Nintendo Switch owns the top 10 spots. Like I'm looking at it right now, it's the top 10, it's all Nintendo Switch. A couple games have drops but pretty much everything else has positives. Ring Fit Adventure has a drop but we know that Ring Fit Adventure also has like a massive shortage problem in Japan. They cannot keep that game in stock so it's hard to ever know if it's dropping due to interest lowering or if it's just because there isn't any more available. But whatever Ring Fit's doing great, I wouldn't be surprised if that eventually hits a million units in Japan. Pokemon Sword and Shield is number one, that's not a surprise. It is bed number one pretty much since launch, it's at 201,838 units this week. Its pace right now is ahead of X and Y and Sun and Moon over the same week spans, it's been ahead of it basically since launch so Sword and Shield is looking like it's going to outperform X and Y and Sun and Moon in Japan. It is behind Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's pace for those that are wondering if it's going to pass Ultimate in Japan. I don't actually think that's going to happen for a multitude of reasons but we can talk about that in another video. Luigi's Match at 3 is back up at number two, jumping up from the fifth spot. It saw a 30% increase in sales moving 34,122 units at 319,297 total. Ring Fit Adventure obviously went down in sales but jumped up the charts because pretty much everything else that isn't Nintendo dropped massively. So Ring Fit Adventure, despite having lower sales at 16,128, actually jumps up to number three. It's 328,000 moved so far, more than Luigi's Match at 3 but it's been on the market a little bit longer I'd say. Minecraft, the physical version for Nintendo Switch, moved 15,335 units up 38%, that is over a million units, it's been over a million for a couple weeks. So congrats to Microsoft having a million unit seller physically in Japan on Switch. Mario and Sonic at the Unlimited Games Tokyo, 20, 20, is obviously a newer game out on Switch. I think it debuted last week at the number eight spot but it is, or a couple weeks ago I guess at this point, 15,159 units up 45% at number five. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, the game that just keeps on giving is at the number six spot jumping in three spots. It is up 49% week over week at 14,623 units, may have 2.5 million for that one. Just keeps going. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate with a 43% increase at number seven. Also jumping three spots at 13,959, moving 3.3 million, almost 3.4 million. Just crazy numbers for Smash. Super Mario Party from 2018 folks jumps from a number 11 to number eight at 13,872, 47% increase. I'm sorry, I call it New Super but it's actually Super Mario Maker 2, I don't know why I keep throwing that new moniker. They're 12,284. That's a 57% increase week over week. That one's slowly getting up, there's 720,000 units, again another one I wouldn't be shocked if you look back at this in two years and it's over a million in Japan. Fishing Spirits Nintendo Switch version has jumped four spots from number 14 to number 10. It's by Bandai Namco, it has moved 11,521 units, it is up 52% a week, 243,000, pretty much 244,000 total at this point. It is also a highly successful game for them and trending ahead of several other releases that Bandai Namco has put out on Switch, so in Japan anyways. So numbers are going good. Top 10s all Switch. Hardware wise, this is where it's interesting because PlayStation 4 actually saw a pretty big increase week over week in terms of sales, but didn't see their games perform well. So that's interesting. Now some people have looked at this chart and they see that Nintendo Switch is at 188,000 which is a slight increase over last week, but is a massive decrease from last year and they're wondering why are Switch sales not doing as well as the same week last year when the Switch is selling better in Japan this year. And the answer is, this data exactly one year ago was the Super Smash Bros Ultimate launch. So that 278,313 was literally the week the Super Smash Bros Ultimate launched. Naturally Nintendo doesn't have a single title coming out in December that's going to match the launch of Ultimate, the closest title they could have had was Pokemon and that launched last month. So yeah, that's not necessarily a bad thing that 188,000 is not able to match 278, there is no huge game this month to push Switch sales, the Switch sales are just consistently saying at 180,000 or higher every single week this holiday period which is better than Switch was doing last holiday period, although December is likely going to be a much bigger month last year due to Smash than it'll be this year overall, but you never know, we are just now entering into the top sales period in Japan where they start to go crazy buying stuff for the holidays, you never really know. This Switch will end up seeing a few weeks over 200,000 at some point here, it's obviously awfully close at this point so we'll have to see what happens as the rest of December plays out again. Lots of high sales going into the Christmas season and actually the week after Christmas is also a big sales period for Japan as well. Now when you look at the breakdown of the system, the Nintendo Switch Lite was 66,285 of those units a little bit down from the prior week, but making up for that is that the base Nintendo Switch model or I guess the red box model since I don't think they make the base base one anymore like the original is 11,000 up which is why you saw the increase at 122,216 units. So there you go, Switch is just still killing it. Also this is notable, the Nintendo Switch itself is over 10 million, in Japan it's at 10.6 million, the OG base model I guess you want to call it that, I know that they've not had that revised base model out there, it's at 9.851 million, by the end of December the base model alone is going to be over 10 million in Japan, probably grand total is going to be over 11 million. That is just insane to me, as you look at PlayStation 4 sales, Switch is well ahead of the lifetime of PlayStation 4, well ahead of the lifetime of PlayStation Vita which is actually decently popular at one point in Japan, obviously Xbox One never really took off in Japan, Xbox 360 didn't really do that well, Xbox in general just doesn't do extremely well in Japan and 3DS is at 24 million with the sales still clocking in at 4,000 but it's pretty much done, can Switch catch the 3DS in Japan? 3DS is one of Nintendo's most popular platforms of all time in Japan, is it possible Switch could catch that for it's all said and done, I don't know, but I think it's going to make a run at it, I could force you Switch hitting 20 million in Japan, the question is will it get that extra 4, 5, 6 that it needs to pass, I don't know, it's going to depend on how long the Switch lifespan lasts, do they refresh the Switch with another newer model but keep it the same generation, basically not a Switch 2 but a Switch Pro, I don't know, we don't know what's going to happen, but Nintendo definitely knows what they're doing, so yeah I think that's all very interesting, I got all this information from Reset Era because they have a guy that follows media create very very closely and gets this data out faster than anywhere else on the internet, so yeah you can find this data at a bunch of different websites now but they all basically source back to this thread, so yeah that's kind of cool and I want to know what you guys think in general of the sales in Japan, personally I'm actually pretty thrilled with these sales figures, I know it doesn't affect us much here in the United States because these have nothing to do with the interest in the kind of games we play in the US, but I think that Nintendo is in the midst of their best holiday season pretty much since the Wii days and back then they had the Wii and the DS going, so like this is trying to do both in one holiday, obviously we knew Nintendo Switch was going to dominate these holidays worldwide in general, just because we know that PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are at the end of life, we know 3DS is way past its end of life at this point and we know that there's obviously all the talk for the next gen system, so even though there's a lot of really super cheap bundles even in Japan for PlayStation 4 and such, you can get multiple, some of the best games of the generation bundled in, it's not really going to manifest much because pretty much anyone that wants to own a PlayStation 4 and wants to play those games probably already has one and if they don't, there really isn't penetration from Sony and Microsoft at this point with their cheap models into say a newer customer base, one thing that was so fantastic about PlayStation 2 and why those sales might never be touched by a home console again is it hit on different consumer bases, it hit on obviously the video game community and being the most popular video game device ever, but it also was able to hit into a more mass market of being one of the cheapest DVD and music CD players out there, so Sony kind of got the double whammy there late in the PlayStation 4 and Xbox life, I don't really see it trying to penetrate new markets, it's interesting because I actually think next gen that Microsoft is actually trying to penetrate two different gaming markets at the same time, three different if Project XCloud works out, but it's going to be very interesting to see how that three pronged approach works for them and if it really blows them up or if it just crashes and burns, Sony has obviously always been really hyper focused on their very, we're going after a certain type of gamer and that's just what we're going to do, I know they have multiple ways that they try to attract other people, you knack at launch was one way, but they haven't really found that blue ocean strategy where they're really good at getting all the casual gamers or families necessarily to invest, then more so we go after the core gamer and that's just what we do, you know, we was kind of in that situation too or did a really good job going after families and stuff and you could argue it had a lot of really good core gamer games because it did, but Nintendo never really found that same penetration level with core gamers that PlayStation and Xbox 360 did, so it's kind of that conundrum where yes, which was going to dominate because the competitors haven't done anything to expand their audience beyond what that audience already is and most people that care about that kind of stuff already own a system, I mean some might be buying a second system, some might be trying to get in late in the life cycle so they can get the games for super cheap, that happens or are budget oriented gamers like that but they are the minority at this point and we got to remember PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, these are platforms that came out in 2013, so five years ago, I mean six years ago I guess at this point it's not really new anymore and fresh and we know about new systems coming next year and a lot of people are like hey, Microsoft put out there that anything that you can play on Xbox One right now will be day one able to play on the new system so I think Sony is going to try to be the same way and so that being the case you know people won't be like yeah I could buy like a $200 or $150 PlayStation 4 right now with a few games or I could save that money, you know save up a couple hundred over the next year in addition to it and get the brand new system next year they can also have all these cheap PlayStation 4 games but all the new greatest looking stuff too so I don't know, Switch just is dominating and these figures in Japan will be shocking if that's kind of how it goes worldwide, maybe not necessarily Nintendo owning the Top 10 software, I don't think that's the case anywhere else in the world, the UK or the United States or anywhere else, but I do think that Nintendo has a hefty amount of games in the Top 10 worldwide, so something to pay attention to when Nintendo's third quarter financial results come out which should happen towards the end of January, should be the next financial briefing and we're going to find out some pretty big numbers for Switch, both unit sales for the console and all the software updates, I mean the numbers are already looking same when you glance at the website, so thank you guys so much for tuning in, I am Nathan Roblgens from Nintendo Prime, let me know what you think about my opinions on this, the analysis of this data, are you impressed by this, are you not impressed, is this just what you thought or is it not as good as what you thought it might be, I'm very curious to see your guys' opinions of the sales data, I love talking numbers, I know I don't do a ton of individual news story videos right now, but when it comes to numbers, there's something that are hard to deny and I like making numbers based arguments or numbers based opinions because the numbers are always something to be denied, I'm actually known in the YouTube MBA circles and stuff like that as a very knowledgeable person because every argument I make is just based on numbers, I'm like the max color man of the comment sections on MBA videos except a little less out there with certain opinions, trying to project cliffs for players and stuff like I just look at numbers and regurgitate numbers and tell people well this is like a fact-based thing you can't argue against so especially when it comes to the Bucks because I'm a big Bucks fan, yes Corey the Bucks are legit one of the best teams in the MBA, congrats on your ring last year in Toronto, not happening again this year, alright folks, thank you so much for joining me, I am Nathan DeRovell Jansson from The Tender Prime if you like this video drop a like, subscribe for more content, YouTube did recently do a purge, that's why my numbers are below 46k right now 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