t3mporary_126 on 14 January 2017
| RolStoppable said: The DS sold only eight million units in its first twelve months. That's a little bit over half of what the PS4 managed. The DS went on to have peak years very close to 30m, the PS4 won't even crack 20m. The point is, making an extrapolation for a console's liftetime sales based on a few months of data could only work if all surrounding circumstances are the same or at the very least very similar. I hope it goes without saying that Switch isn't a GameCube. Oh look, I said it anyway. |
4 million in 7 months is a smaller ratio than 8 million in 12 months though.
And I'm comparing these first 7 months to Wii U's 2012 holiday launch plus its first 9 months where it failed to sale 4 million before October 2013 when it launched last year at 2012. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_U#Sales )
