The following information comes from GameStop Chief Executive Officer Paul Raines, Chief Operating Officer Tony Bartel and Chief Financial Officer Robert Lloyd...
- Switch has been a “massive success”
- GameStop saw growth in hardware sales by 14.8% year-on-year
- Switch has been GameStop’s “Most Successful Nintendo Launch Ever”
- attach rates have been “consistently high” with over 5-to-1 since launch
- GameStop is expecting a “healthy” allocation of Switch units for the second half of the year
- GameStop believes that the high demand for the Switch demonstrates that consumers’ appetite for games is healthy
- SNES Classic Edition generated “very high demand” this week
- consumer demand for the Switch continues to be strong
- hardware in the third quarter of the fiscal year will be still driven by the demand and allocation of Nintendo Switch units
- GameStop had the largest Switch market share of all retailers
- Nintendo allocated units below the company’s usual market share
- GameStop continues to see strong demand for the Switch, and allocation sells out in a matter of days
- GameStop believes that this will continue throughout the Holidays
from GoNintendo
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