10th August 2019 HW sales

[Barkley]

AngryLittleAlchemist said:

colafitte said:
PS4 seems to be on pace to finish the year around 15'5-16'0M which is what i predicted at the begining of the year (in fact i said that PS4 and Switch would be neck and neck just before Oct-Nov and it seems is going to be like this), and all of this without a price cut and a lackluster year of AAA games in 2019 compared to 2017 and 2018.

I don't know what to say about this...We were talking in that other thread about how Nintendo games don't go cheaper and still sell and sell, years after release, and with PS4 is the same but with home consoles.

Um, no?

Switch is the longest any console has ever gone without a price cut, and even when it does end up getting a price cut later this year, it won't even be a "price cut" but a new less valuable edition (even the battery life in the $300 model is now better, considering they just released a new updated version that has 1.5 more hours than the Lite). 

Eh, it depends what he means exactly hard to say. But I think an almost 6 year old console still selling very well when it hasn't had a price cut in almost 3 years is more impressive than a $299 console not being cut in price in 2 and a half years. Launching at a lower more appetising price certainly lowers the necessity for an early price cut. As for the "years after release" he's right that PlayStations are much less frontloaded than Nintendo consoles in general.

To be fair he also never directly made in that bolded section any comparison with other systems anyway lol.