You'd never prioritize Pokemon over stuff like GoW, R&C, Horizon, Death Stranding, CoD, etc etc etc, so there's not enough wallet priority from people like you, for Nintendo to make enough money to counter
the drop in hardware sales, however small it is, that would result.
The various Nintendo Switch games in the Top 20 all saw an increase in sales this week (despite
the drop in Hardware sales), thanks to the public holiday on Friday and the recent launch of Super Mario Odyssey bringing in lots of new users hungry for games.
Not exact matches
Overall gaming
hardware sales dropped 6 % to $ 168 million from the same month a year ago, NPD estimates, owing to flagging
sales in previous - generation devices including Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3.
For a third straight week since its price
dropped, the PlayStation 4 was first
in hardware sales,
dropping by just a few thousand units week - over-week to finish at 25,700.
The week that follows the infamous Golden Week always saw major
drop in sales (both Software and
Hardware), and 2018 was no exception.
Media Create points out that this is pretty normal for the week that follows the Golden Week, so there's nothing really surprising
in both Software and
Hardware sales dropping by about 50 %.
Barnes and Noble has lost over a billion dollars on Nook
hardware and each financial quarter they consistently report a 20 %
drop in sales.
The discounts on Nook Media
hardware and content, coming as they do the month after Barnes & Noble reported an 8.8 percent revenue
drop and 2.2 percent decline
in sales of Nook products from last year, doesn't seem to be a show of faith
in Nook's future prospects.
If you're wondering who's to blame for this
drop, then look no further than
Hardware sales: they
dropped by 27 % compared to 2015, with # 503 million
in 2016 (as opposed to 689.5 million
in 2015).
Just like Media Create, Dengeki report a harsh
drop in sales for both
Hardware and Software for the week following the Golden Week (that didn't see the release of a single game):
Media Create points out that this is pretty normal for the week that follows the Golden Week, so there's nothing really surprising
in both Software and
Hardware sales dropping by about 50 %.
According to NPD, console
hardware sales saw double digit
drop in sales in...
The
drop in revenue was of course due to the decline
in hardware unit
sales but also due to lower average selling prices for the 3DS.
According to NPD, console
hardware sales saw double digit
drop in sales in comparison to September 2014.
«Fifa 16» (+10 %) also
drops down a place despite a boost fuelled
in part by high
sales of the Xbox One Fifa 16
hardware bundle.
Hardware sales dropped 27 % from $ 431.2 million
in September 2014 to $ 313.5 million
in September 2015.
The PlayStation 4 has settled around an average of 30K unit
sales per week since the price
drop in Japan but there were no big titles that provided a significant boost to PlayStation 4
hardware sales this month.
Despite the dip
in hardware sales, the Xbox division still managed to post a total revenue of $ US1.95 billion (# 1.2 billion) for the quarter, which was only a one per cent
drop on the same time last year.
In addition, Sony
drops the price of the PlayStation to $ 299, selling the
hardware at a loss and making the costs up with more game
sales.