PS4 VS Switch lifetime sales, which console will sell the most?

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Qwark said:

AngryLittleAlchemist said:

Rarely? ... It's outsold the PS4 almost every month in NPD and Japan. Like, what? How is that rarely?

Also, it's so weird to me that people think a first year console with huge supply issues up until recently should be outselling a console in it's best year. Why do so many people think new consoles automatically outsell old ones, or that it's expected for new consoles to do so? 

For christ's sakes, there are some people in this thread who have gone as far as to say that the Switch will decrease from now on because it's "biggest exclusives" have already released. Really? Consoles don't work like that. Odyssey isn't the Switch's biggest exclusive either, neither is Zelda. 

Say PS4 will outsell Switch all ya want, I voted that in the pole. But please people, have some common sense.

The world is a lot bigger than Nintendo's two strongest markets. And as long as the Switch sells more in Japan than Europe  (the latter doesn't have all that much supply issues in most big countries). PS4 can relatively easy compete worldwide with the Switch. As it stands now European PS4 sales usually double the Switch European sales and that's enough to overcome NPD losses (usually by only 25k tops a month) and Switch outselling PS4 in Japan.

Actually, the Switch has sold better in "Other" regions (EU, Hong Kong, etc) than in Japan. And fair to point out the Switch still has to release in some small markets (South Korea and Taiwan this December, China possibly sometime in the future, for example)

Switch Hardware shipments WW (as of September 30th):
Japan - 1.95 million LTD
The Americas - 3.11 million LTD
Other - 2.56 million LTD

https://www.resetera.com/threads/nintendo-2nd-quarter-results-fy3-2018-switch-7-63m-units-ltd.2459/

How much of "Other" comes from Europe, impossible to know. But shouldn't surprise anyone if it's more than 90% share.

The reason Switch isn't outselling the PS4 every week isn't that it sells badly outside of Japan and US. It's that the PS4 (or PS in general) sells amazingly well in Europe and (specially compared to Xbox and Nintendo) in emerging markets.