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Forums - Sales Discussion - NPD, PS4 2015 vs NSW 2018 (December added)

 

Who wins?

PS4 66 40.24%
 
NSW 84 51.22%
 
Tie 14 8.54%
 
Total:164
zorg1000 on 17 August 2018
Nuvendil said:
Well, I've been on point so far with regards to the summer :P

Didn't expect the dominant win in July though. With the momentum from that, August may well be a lock, though I think it will be a good bit closer. September is where it gets intense. Switch has a bundle for that month but not a massive one. FighterZ, Toena, Valkyria, Fifa, and NBA are all solid stuff but nothing massive. PS4 could very well take September. Then the real fight begins.

The bundle is also just for Walmart so it shouldnt have as much impact as if it were released everywhere.

But ya i agree, slight lead for Switch in Aug and slight lead for PS4 in Sept keeping them very close going into the last quarter.



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JWeinCom on 17 August 2018
Nuvendil said:
Well, I've been on point so far with regards to the summer :P

Didn't expect the dominant win in July though. With the momentum from that, August may well be a lock, though I think it will be a good bit closer. September is where it gets intense. Switch has a bundle for that month but not a massive one. FighterZ, Toena, Valkyria, Fifa, and NBA are all solid stuff but nothing massive. PS4 could very well take September. Then the real fight begins.

I think Spider-man helps PS4 take September.  



Green098 on 17 August 2018
JWeinCom said:
Nuvendil said:
Well, I've been on point so far with regards to the summer :P

Didn't expect the dominant win in July though. With the momentum from that, August may well be a lock, though I think it will be a good bit closer. September is where it gets intense. Switch has a bundle for that month but not a massive one. FighterZ, Toena, Valkyria, Fifa, and NBA are all solid stuff but nothing massive. PS4 could very well take September. Then the real fight begins.

I think Spider-man helps PS4 take September.  

This is in comparison to PS4's 2015 NPD numbers not 2018.



p0isonparadise on 17 August 2018

Really, zorg? You forgot to put Captain Toad as a notable release for Switch! Let's not give all the credit to a third-party.



Amnesia on 17 August 2018

I am sorry to ask such a thing but....What does mean the title and what does mean the numbers of the first page ? units sold worlwide ? or just North America ?



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zorg1000 on 17 August 2018
Amnesia said:
I am sorry to ask such a thing but....What does mean the title and what does mean the numbers of the first page ? units sold worlwide ? or just North America ?

NPD tracks United States so its the 2nd year of PS4 vs the 2nd year of Switch (2015 vs 2018).



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zorg1000 on 17 August 2018
JWeinCom said:
Nuvendil said:
Well, I've been on point so far with regards to the summer :P

Didn't expect the dominant win in July though. With the momentum from that, August may well be a lock, though I think it will be a good bit closer. September is where it gets intense. Switch has a bundle for that month but not a massive one. FighterZ, Toena, Valkyria, Fifa, and NBA are all solid stuff but nothing massive. PS4 could very well take September. Then the real fight begins.

I think Spider-man helps PS4 take September.  

PS4 sales are 2015, im comparing the 2nd year for both platforms.



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zorg1000 on 17 August 2018
p0isonparadise said:

Really, zorg? You forgot to put Captain Toad as a notable release for Switch! Let's not give all the credit to a third-party.

My metric is any game that appears in the combined chart for NPD, we havent gotten confirmation about Toad appearing yet.



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JWeinCom on 17 August 2018
zorg1000 said:
JWeinCom said:

I think Spider-man helps PS4 take September.  

PS4 sales are 2015, im comparing the 2nd year for both platforms.

In that case, I retract my statement.



CosmicSex on 17 August 2018
JWeinCom said:
zorg1000 said:

PS4 sales are 2015, im comparing the 2nd year for both platforms.

In that case, I retract my statement.

An even more interesting comparison is the current one because you are talking about a system's 2nd year vs a system's 5th year.  Is Switch expected to sell 20 million this year?  If that is the case it should beat the PS4 this year, but it is still too close to call without Pokemon and Smash numbers.