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UK, Spain - GAME selling three physical Switch games for every system sold, matches Wii software ratio

by rawmeatcowboy
17 November 2017
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The following info comes from GAME, and pertains to their sales in the UK and Spain.

- Nintendo is selling three physical Switch games for every console sold in the UK and Spain
- this matches the performance of Wii
- Nintendo says the Switch's global tie-ratio is 3.6
- 78% of Nintendo Switch games are sold in boxes, by comparison only 47% of PS4 games are sold physically
- the only blips in Switch sales have occurred during moments of stock shortages
- there was a significant spike in hardware sales around the launch of Super Mario Odyssey
- across Spain and the UK, 469,000 Switch consoles have been sold for the first 36 weeks of its life
- this is about 49% of what the Wii managed to do over the same period (which launched over Christmas)
- this is 300% of what the Wii U managed to achieve
- Switch may grow significantly again if Nintendo continues its trend of updating the hardware with new iterations
- there is currently enough stock to satisfy demand at the moment
- if demand increases for the holiday season, GAME says "we don't have a warehouse full of stock ready to go."

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