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It's time to close this thread. Although the sales figures on VG Chartz only go until December 28th I think that's close enough for the purpose of this topic.
In 2019 the Switch has sold 20.2 million consoles compared to the PS4 with 14.1 million, therefore Switch wins by 6.1 million. At this time 35.59% of people had accurately predicted this result on the OP poll. The most popular poll response was Switch by under 5 million so that wasn't too far from the mark.
To put these results into context -
In 2019 out of the 2 consoles 58.89% of sales were a Switch and 41.11% of sales were a PS4.
Switch 2019 20.2 million vs Switch 2018 15.8 million - this is a 25.58% increase.
PS4 2019 14.1 million vs PS4 2018 17.3 million - this is a 18.49% decrease.
If these trends were to continue (and that's highly speculative) in 2020 sales would be - Switch 25.37 million and PS4 11.49 million.
This would have LTD totals at PS4 117.39 million and Switch at 75.17 million at the end of 2020.

To summarise I'm still very impressed with the staying power of the PS4. The console is over 6 years old and sold more units in 2019 than the WiiU did in it's entire existence. Even with declining sales in 2020 the console will rank as one of the greatest of all time and the PS4 will be a good chance to pass the GameBoy in LTD sales this year. The Switch is an interesting one because nobody is quite sure if 2019 represents the peak of the system or whether it can continue to grow. Like always games will be the factor and at this time little is known about the Switch in 2020 but a Nintendo Direct seems imminent. One thing is for sure, the Switch will be the best selling console of 2020 and it's only a question of by how much.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the thread. 2020 looks set to be huge with next gen systems and a possible Switch Pro on the horizon.