This information comes from Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima…
This graph shows post-release Nintendo Switch sellthrough trends for the North American market. The above shows an overlay of sell-through figures together with Wii and Wii U data for the first years after release. While Wii and Wii U were released during the holiday season, it’s important to note that the Nintendo Switch launch was timed completely differently, in March. It now looks like holiday season sales for Nintendo Switch could catch up to the Wii figures.
These are the figures for the European market. Similarly for the European market, sales figures are tracking to
those for Wii.
This graph shows sell-through trends for the Japanese market. The sell-through rates are clearly growing in Japan as well.
We ended up with Nintendo Switch product shortages after worldwide demand exceeded our anticipated numbers. We might have seen further sales growth if we were better prepared from the start.
