Weekly Viz 2020-11-09

Nintendo Switch Sales Units

About Makeover Monday

MakeoverMonday is a social data project: “Each week we post a link to a chart, and its data, and then you rework the chart. Maybe you retell the story more effectively, or find a new story in the data. We’re curious to see the different approaches you all take. Whether it’s a simple bar chart or an elaborate infographic, we encourage everyone of all skills to partake. Together we can have broader conversations about and with data.”

Starting from Jan 08, 2018, I decided to put aside one hour on Monday weekly to create some visualization and find some insights from the data.

The datasets are published each week at: MakeoverMonday Datasets.

Makeover Monday 20201109

This week’s dataset is Nintendo Switch Hardware & Software sales units around the world from 2017 to 2020. I bought a Switch in 2018, and has been a big fan since then. And it has been my best friend during the quarantine time :). It’s truly a great product, and no surprise at all to see the sales surging in the past four years.

My Visualization

I am focusing on the visual design component this week to make a simple but visually attractive (cute) viz.

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Please notice that all the visualizations are designed for desktop view, so it is recommended to view them on a desktop device.

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Insights

• Althrough we see a hardware sales growth stagnant in FY2019 in Japan, across the world, the sales has been increasing steadily since 2018;
• On the software side, sales units are increasing linearly in all regions – no surprise as soo many great games released on Switch (Zelda, Mario Oddessey, Xenoblade, Fire Emblem, Animal Crossing, etc….).

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