NPD April 2017 Results (Switch 280k, PS4 > 200k, XB1 < 128k, 3DS 68k, NES Classic #2)

[Legend]

NPd used to be fun

[darkknightkryta]

What does "guidance" mean in that report.  What does EA and Activision need in "guidance"?

No "Xbox Live was the most used service this month if you add the last 15 years together" or something?

[Xevross]

Lol do you remember when NPD was a thing?

[Horizon]

So I guess no console sales eh? Weird.

[ethomaz]

REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--According to the NPD Group, which tracks video game sales in the United States, the Nintendo Switch system was the best-selling video game hardware in the month of April with more than 280,000 units sold. This is the second month in a row that Nintendo Switch has led the pack in video game hardware sales, following a record-breaking launch in March. April sales of Nintendo Switch and the Nintendo 3DS family of systems (more than 68,000 units sold) combined to make up almost half of all hardware sales across all dedicated video game systems.

The Mario Kart 8 Deluxe game was the top-selling video game in April with more than 460,000 physical units sold. With digital sales added, the total is more than 550,000 units. Making this number more impressive is the fact that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe launched on April 28, which only accounts for two days' worth of sales in the reporting period, which cut off on April 29.

Nintendo News: Nintendo Switch Was the Best-Selling Video Game System in April; Mario Kart 8 Deluxe the No. 1 Game | Business Wire

[the-pi-guy]

Switch is way outpacing the Wii U.  
First month was ahead of the first 2 Wii U months looks like.  
And third month Wii U died...  
But the Wii U was holiday.  

[DerNebel]

Lol, Zelda Switch only sold 3% digitally and MK8 Deluxe sold almost 20% digitally? How weird.

[Xbro]

Lol, Zelda Switch only sold 3% digitally and MK8 Deluxe sold almost 20% digitally? How weird.

Mario Kart seems more like a game you'd want to play at any time without having to carry the cart around.

[BananaKing]

Lol, Zelda Switch only sold 3% digitally and MK8 Deluxe sold almost 20% digitally? How weird.

i would guess that digital pre-orders had a bigger effect. more people already had a switch by then and digitally pre-order compared to zelda. also MK8 is just 6GB~ while zelda is 13~. zelda takes almost half of the space on the switch defaults memory. MK8 is more reasonable

and its closer to 16% rather than 20%

[the-pi-guy]

Lol, Zelda Switch only sold 3% digitally and MK8 Deluxe sold almost 20% digitally? How weird.

I don't think it's all that weird.  
Pretty much what bananaman said.  
When people were buying their switch, they more than likely picked up a game with it to play.  And that game was pretty much just Zelda.  
And by the time Mario Kart came out, people already had their switch so they were more likely to buy it online instead of running to the store to get a game.  

[the-pi-guy]

US:

	First Month	Second Month	Third Month	Fourth Month	Fifth Month	Sixth Month
Wii	476k	604k	436k	335k	259k	360k
Wii cumulative	476k	1080k	1516k	1851k	2110k	2470k
Wii U	400k	460k	57k	66k	67k	36k
Wii U cumulative	400k	860k	917k	983k	1050k	1086k
Switch	906k	280k
Switch Cumulative	906k	1186k

Japan:

	First Month	Second Month	Third Month	Fourth Month	Fifth Month	Sixth Month
Wii	350k	639k	525k	278k	238k	411k
Wii cumulative	350k	919k	1444k	1723k	1961k	2372k
Wii U	627k	131k	43k	53k	55k	26k
Wii U cumulative	627k	758k	801k	854k	909k	935k
Switch	565k	212k
Switch Cumulative	565k	777k

Media Create Sales: Archive Thread 2 - NeoGAF


Disclaimer:  All the Japan numbers are from the mediacreate.  I used the shortest time period for that contained every month, so some include a few extra days into the next month.  The next month does not contain these sales, as I took the cumulative for the week that contained the month and subtracted the previous total.  So no double counting. 

[DerNebel]

Leave it to Nintendo to ship only 70k less to Japan than to the US in a month even though the US has like 3 times as many people living in it and a way bigger gaming market as well. GG Nintendo

[SWORDF1SH]

Switch would of definitely sold a lot lot more than that if it wasn't for stock issues. Mario Kart beasting.

[Dr. Pezus]

A bit underwhelmed by the Switch number. Must've not shipped much

[BananaKing]

Does anybody else think the 280k number is rather abysmal?