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colafitte on 22 May 2019
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RolStoppable said:
colafitte said:

Oh i readed that note, and yet you made a conclusion comparing numbers based on that flawed logic.

Fightning against the "inevitable"....lol, like when Switch was going to sell 20M or more last year??, outselling PS4??, that same "inevitability"???. PS4 vs Switch may be "eligible", but that's not all about it. It's only a restricted way of think that you puposedly decided to choose to benefit your interests. The OP never stated that, the OP title is clear "SONY IS ENTERING NINTENDO LEVELS". And besides, your point about PS4 vs Switch is still undecided which will have more big sellers in the end. What in the world mades you think "in the end won't be a close comparison". Your loved Nintendo games are the only ones than can keep selling?? Such arrogance my god....

The time is against you, not in favor to you. Next year we will know Spiderman and GOW are going to be 15-20M sellers. TLOU 2 is going to be the best Sony selling game of al time. Days Gone is going to surprise people....AGAIN, when it's announced they're close to sell 10M. Ghosts of Tsushima and Death Stranding are going to be successes too. And then PS5 will come, GOW 2, HZD 2, Spiderman 2 will be announced and in the next few years the list of Sony games selling 15M or more will only grow bigger and larger. More IP's will come, because you can bet on that and they will sell a ton too. Meanwhile Nintendo will need again Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, Smash,... to be good to sell good.

This "era", Sony became closer entering Nintendo levels. Next gen Sony is going to surpass Nintendo in this regard. Mark my words....

Since I was never one of the people who claimed that it is a sure thing that Switch will either sell through 20m+ in calendar year 2018 or ship 20m+ in the fiscal year ending March 2019, that sort of argument doesn't apply here.

I am not contesting that sales of already released Sony games will continue to grow, nor do I contest that upcoming Sony games will be big sellers. I am accounting for both the Sony and Nintendo side of things all the same. Here's the list of Nintendo's top 10 as it was at the time this thread was created:

Super Mario Odyssey - 11.17m (+0.76m)
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - 10.35m (+1.13m)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - 9.32m (+0.84m)
Splatoon 2 - 6.76m (+0.74m)
1-2-Switch - 2.45m (+0.16m)
ARMS - 2.01m (+0.16m)
Kirby Star Allies - 1.89m (+0.63m)
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - 1.42m (+0.11m)
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze - 1.40m (NEW)
Mario Tennis Aces - 1.38m (NEW)

Nintendo's pace over the last nine months has been much faster than Sony's, hence why I conclude that the final results will be very much in Nintendo's favor. Nintendo has lined up more for the next nine months than Sony, and of course Nintendo also has the edge when it comes to the legs of already released games.

Where did you get the notion that Nintendo's pace over the last 9 months has been much faster than Sony's??.

First of all, Nintendo numbers are shipped, Sony's numbers are always sold to consumers. That's an important point to note.

Second point. Uncharted 4, is a perfect example of legs. The game was announced to have sold to consumeres 8'7M by the end of 2016. So in 2017, 2018 and half 2019 the game has sold another 8M of units to consumers....That's are very good legs for me. Horizon Zero Dawn, started with 2'6M sold to consumers in 2 weeks, 7'6M sold to consumers in 12 months, and "more than 10M" sold to consumers after 24 months, so another 3M sold in a year. I'm pretty convinced that GOW and Spiderman will match that level of legs and even surpassed them.

"Nintendo has lined up more for the next 9 month than Sony". What?. Do Days Gone, The Last of Us Part II, Dreams, Ghosts of Tsushima, Death Stranding disappeared all of a sudden??. What new games does Nintendo have for the next 9 months to match those games??. Super Mario Maker 2, Pokemon Sword& Shield, Animal Crossing and......what exactly? What i am missing? Do we count unannounced games??