French publication Lefigaro caught up with Philippe Lavoué, who is the General Manager of Nintendo France, to talk about how Nintendo is performing in the country and also whether they have more to show.
Mr. Lavoué said that they have plenty of opportunities to show more this year with three big events coming up.
Philippe Lavoué about Nintendo Switch
Nintendo Switch is still doing big numbers, they now have high goal for most of their game releases
Goal is to reach 2 million sales by the end of this calendar year. It did one million in less than a year.
Selling 20% more games than last year, software dynamic up YoY
Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze almost above 100k unit sold
Zelda BoTW & MK8DX are still charting every week
They only expected 20% of LABO stock to be sold until September, and the remaining part should be sold in the Christmas period. Says that “market curves are different for a toys-like product compared to a standard video game”.
About E3
they preferred to keep it close, to only talk about games releasing in the coming months. Says that they’ve got plenty of opportunities to show more, during Japan Expo (July), Gamescom (August) or Tokyo Game Show (September).
Three big games this holiday
Super Mario Party, Pokémon Let’s Go & Super Smash Bros Ultimate. First two are family-oriented games and should bring casual audience to the Switch. Pretty ambitious goals for Pokémon & Smash, says that so far public response has been above their expectations.
