 came across what appears to be a leak for the July NPD report which tracks software and hardware sales for video games and obviously a lot of other stuff but we're focusing on the video game aspect here and the report itself is actually supposed to go out on Thursday so the report is done right you know there might be some media members who have gotten their hands in it already I don't know I found this leak myself in the hardware predictions thread on NeoGaff for July 2017 whether or not these leaks are true we'll know for sure on Thursday but they definitely sound pretty in line with traditional NPD leaks it's interesting in here because they only have one game listed in this leak so again this is not a full leak we don't know all of the details and we obviously don't have the official comments from Nintendo or Sony or Microsoft or any other company on the NPD report which usually released the exact same day so we might have a follow-up video to this on Thursday but I wanted to talk about these leaks because we've talked briefly at times in the past about the Nintendo switch line situation in Japan and the lottery that's going on and how crazy it's getting there and how the sales are going nuts and I don't report on the sales from Japan every single week I know I think I did actually recently report on the sales from this past week where it was like 61,000 units and switch was number one which was just an interesting fact concerning that a popular PlayStation 4 game released however Nintendo switch was not the number one selling hardware back in June that the number one selling hardware was the PlayStation 4 which continues to have strong sales even now now according to this leak which you have probably seen on screen for a little bit the Nintendo switch is back in the number one spot in North America and it is sold 222,000 units interestingly enough the number one selling software for the month of July according to this leak was Splatoon 2 which sold 332,000 units now these are physical units the NPD does not count digital sales so unless Nintendo gives us a report on Thursday that includes digital sales we're not going to see any other numbers for Splatoon 2 but this this is obviously very interesting in that the Nintendo switch reclaimed the number one spot by a decent margin and this is during the time when the PlayStation 4 itself is up 34% in sales at 217,000 over the same month last year maybe not so surprising the 3ds numbers are actually down 44% at 105,000 now there's no Xbox sales listed here and maybe they just weren't available at the time of the report or maybe the person who leaked this stuff just didn't care about Xbox sales so we will see updates on this stuff on Thursday and maybe we'll recover it when we have a grander scope of what's going on now interestingly enough PlayStation 4 had very strong sales in software last month in fact they had 2200 and wait a second this is 2.2 million 299,000 units of software selling last month Nintendo switch had 736,000 software selling last month 3ds had 384,000 which is about a 50% drop from last year and I think we're gonna start seeing this over and over again Nintendo switch is slowly killing off the 3ds because it is a portable platform even though it's a hybrid it's a portable hybrid so it's a platform that a lot of people are playing exclusively in portable mode and it's something that the 3ds just isn't going to keep being able to keep up with as time moves on it and I think this is why the reports that Nintendo plans to you know potentially kill off the 3ds in a couple of years aren't exaggerated at all it's very clearly trending in that way as Nintendo switch sales continue to soar and are eating into the 3ds sales year over year this is just a really interesting thing to me because Nintendo switch I just reported that today the day this video is going out that every single GameStop in North America received switch units today and people are starting to now report it they're seeing more switch units at Best Buys some have said they've had no problem finding them at Toys R Uses which is great I have my own theories behind why they're easier to find at Toys R Uses because I don't think at least in my area Toys R Us isn't considered a place that you go to first for consumer electronics it's a place you go to get toys for kids which is totally fine and it's not a place that I personally would think of to go go get video game stuff at but I also haven't had a Toys R Us active in my area in probably 10 years so if one was and I knew this old video game stuff I would probably stop in anyways plus I you know whatever it's just Toys R Uses it's just a fun little place to be in I know I loved it when I was a kid and we actually have one in this area so when I look at these numbers I'm just really happy to see Nintendo back on top and I'm very curious you know I'm almost more curious what the numbers are going to be like for August if it's true that not only game stuff had all these units in today but that more and more units are starting to appear because we don't really know the true popularity of Nintendo switch until it is able to meet demand and I say that because I think it keeps selling out but we don't know how well it can potentially sell until there's enough of them in the market and once there's enough of them in the market is it just going to be one big month of sales and then it dies off because now everyone that wanted to switch could finally get one or is it something that's going to continue to have sales momentum and I think you know you know what side I stand on I think it's going to continue sales momentum it's definitely going to continue to have momentum in Japan because they still have Monster Hunter Double Cross coming which is going to sell really really well I don't know if it's going to sell as well as the 3DS version since the 3DS had so many more units out there but I do think it's something to pay attention to and I honestly think that the switch is going to continue to sell gangbusters over in Japan through this year and when Pokemon lands on it oh boy I mean I don't know if Nintendo could possibly make enough switches ever in Japan to meet the the sales potential of a Pokemon game on Nintendo Switch and then we have to consider in the US you know with all these sales catching up I'm going to be really interested in the August NPD I feel like this month the switch even though it's it doesn't have like a Splatoon 2 kind of game coming out I feel like Nintendo you know this is Sonic Mania release which is reviewing very very well and again obviously multi-platform games so how well it sells on Switch in comparison to the competitions another thing to track especially with since Sega has been working directly with Nintendo for a while so be interested to see maybe there is a bigger audience for Sonic on Switch than there is anywhere else but it's just interesting to me to watch what happens this month I predict that Nintendo Switch is going to sell even more than 222,000 units this month you know we could be looking at 300,000 if the man's really catching up you want to get crazy predicting 400,000 I think 400,000 or 500,000 or something crazy like that is something to reserve for a launch month of like Super Mario Odyssey so October could see like a huge boom like that in the United States because Mario Odyssey is going to sell well almost everywhere but it's definitely going to sell well in the United States and I think there's a reason that Nintendo is catching up here with this hardware now you know now we've seen some numbers for July or some potential numbers for July and we're looking at you know towards the future I think Nintendo is trying to get as many Switch units out there as they can because they know as all of us may not want to admit to but we also know that third-party games big AAA third-party games are coming out throughout the rest of this year starting I think on September 15th or 19th or whatever it is with a NBA 2k and those games need to sell well if the switch is going to continue to get those franchises and more in the future so NBA 2k 18 WWE 2k 18 FIFA 18 and even Skyrim you need as many switches on the marketplace as you can before those games release to give those games all a chance to cross the 1 million sales mark because if they do that I think that's enough to convince third parties that at least invest in switch for one more year and see if they can build on those sales and sell 1.5 the 2 million of say NBA 2k 19 or whatever the following year and continue to build up a following as the switches audience continues to grow plus I think this year is an excellent year for third parties because Nintendo's next big game is I believe it's Mario and Rabbids Kingdom Battle which I think is going to do well I think it's going to do surprisingly well for Nintendo and then Super Mario Odyssey and then Xenoblade Chronicles 2 3 huge games I know there's only you know four and a half months to go here but that's just three games over the course of like you know what's 14 16 weeks or so that is not actually a lot when you consider that a platform can usually support two three sometimes even four big games with one major release every single week so third parties that's where they come in that's where I think these games have a chance to succeed I know I personally am buying NBA 2k 18 apparently buying a digital because I don't want to wait and I'm really hoping that it stacks up well compared to the Xbox one and PlayStation 4 versions I realize those versions are going to be prettier I understand it can't look as good but if it can hold up gameplay wise look decent as you know as decent as you could hope for it to look any include every single feature not be like FIFO where it feels like some features are cut out be the full engine and give me the full gameplay experience if it can do that I'm gonna be extremely pleased and I know a lot of you are not going to care but I will have videos on NBA 2k 18 coming up because I did I really do care I'm a big sports fan I love sports games and I'm going to have some videos featuring some sports titles in the future that come to switch there's not a lot of them so I think you have to worry about that being like this big thing we cover yeah so that's really all I got for today for now there hasn't been any other news that has really tickled my fancy there's a few things floating out there but today is really the day Sonic Mania arrives and a lot of people seem to be hyped about that there does seem to be some minor issues with it nothing that I feel like is worth reporting on at this point because it's only happening in handheld mode and I'm betting you know within days it'll be patched out and fixed so yeah otherwise Sonic Mania looks fantastic I can't wait to get my hands on it 20 bucks don't have it now we'll have it someday I'm hyped as always folks oh and before I sign out here I just want to let everyone know that I have been talking to some networks out there I've heard your requests in the past for gameplay clips in our videos and the big stopping gate to having gameplay clips versus still images is Nintendo and having to delay videos potentially up to three days for Nintendo to approve of them and other companies as well any other companies like Konami that copyright claimed a video I did using Puyupuyu Tetris as always if I can get partnered up with the right and not just any company I've been talking to several but if I can get partnered up with the right network that can give me what I fear is a fair deal on the advertising revenue and can protect me from these copyright claims you're gonna start seeing video game footage appearing in these videos which the good that I think the best news about this isn't even the fact that you're gonna start seeing Nintendo footage more often on this channel it's that it'll allow me to finally do video reviews of actual software not just product reviews of battery banks and total mounts and different different accessories for switch or whatever we can start looking at actual game reviews and seeing how you guys react to it and if you like my style of review because again it's gonna be my style of review of review not based on how anybody else does it it's gonna be my opinions and how I feel I want to approach game reviews so I'm looking into that stuff and hopefully I'll have a positive update for you guys on that hopefully by the end of the week if not next week because again negotiations are ongoing and we're a small channel so it's not like we have a lot of power at this point to ask for a lot of things but there there's a few basic things I want to make sure get put in there because I think once we're already a fat a quickly growing channel like at least I think we're quickly growing considering that we were at 17,000 you know 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