Switch and ps4 sales very healthy.

Both are destroying xbox though. As Carl said, a bloodbath. He's right in saying pubg was big for it last year but who knows that might release on ps4 soon. 2019 is going to be ugly. If ps4 gets a permanent price cut then it will be outselling it 4 to 1 not 3 to 1. Switch will probably do too meaning Microsoft will be losing market share at a rapid pace.

Is it yet, though? The 3DS sold about 7.6m the last quarter of 2012. Can you really see some 29.8m Switches shipped by the end of the year? It would have to seriously overperform to get there. Nearly 60% of a console's yearly sales, on average, are gone already, as of the latest global charts.

Either way, it's an interesting comparison, since both consoles released on similar periods and are tracking very closely so far.

I'm actually surprised that Xbox One is still scoring as well as it is in Europe, and 3DS as well. Who is buying these and where are they buying them?

30m by this years end? Definitely. It was at 19.6m by the end of June, so it would comfortably be at 22m as of the end of September (we shoulld officially know that in a week from now). All it needs is to ship less than 8m on the holiday quarter (Oct/Nov/Dec), which is basically what it did last year without bundles and only with Odyssey + Xenoblade Chronicles 2 as main sellers. This year, the Pokémon + Smash combo is definitely stronger than that, so I can't see them shipping less than last year all things considered.

Shipments after 6 quarters.

3DS-19.00m

Switch-19.67m

Also it would not need to over perform to remain ahead of 3DS since Switch shipped 7.23 million last holiday so 7.6m is definitely feasible.

My lil sister's friend bought a refurbrished ps4 today. Idk why he'd buy a ps4 and not pro doe. 

Pretty cool to see the PS4 and Switch over 200k/w is that the start of the holiday purchasing I wonder or is it just the aftershock of Spiderman and Mario Party.

Think the fortnite switch bundles are on shelves now as well, crazy good marketing idea.

Seen a lot of advertising for RDR2 on TV the last few days too, very much pushing that as a PS4 game with the pro bundle advertised along with the game, can't wait to see the ratio of that games sales from PS4 : X1, Also a lot of Black Ops adverts which point out that dlc comes first to ps4 over other platforms so aye.... Sony marketing isn't getting slack in EU even though they are dominating in this region.

per region is pretty strong too

US is around 2.5:1 EU is 3.2:1 and japan is 14:1 even in lands that MS has had a hold of for the last 10+ years Sony are able to land 2 and a half systems under TV's to each Xbox1

I think by the time PS4 is discontinued it will be one of the best selling consoles ever

Yes at this point it´s safe to say the PS4 will be the second best selling PS system, behind PS2 and ahead of all the others.