Switch: How Big Will Its 9th Gen Lead Be?

[Mnementh]

Shadow1980 said:

Mnementh said:

Looking at the graph: 5th gen starts with the end of 3rd, sixth gen with the end of fourth, seventh gen with the end fifth, eight gen with the end of sixth, 9th gen - there is a gap to the end of seventh. If you start 9th gen with the Switch, it actually behaves like the gens before. You decided to put it at a preojected release of PS5, XBox Next and it looks different to the previous gens.

Eagle367 said:

So the switch is in line with how previous gens behaved. How is this a problem? This graph just helps switch's standing as a 9th gen console

The lines just happen to line up that way due to their release timing and how the longest-lasting systems typically get a 10-12 year production run in the U.S., and how generations used to average 5 years. It's a coincidence. It works out noticeably different in Japan because from the NES through to the PS2 they got most systems well before the West did. The NES came out in Japan at least two years before it was released in U.S. test markets, and the SNES took nine months to come here, and were both in production until 2003 over there, much longer than their production runs in America. The PS1 and PS2 likewise came out many months in advance in Japan.

It lines up so far, the difference with the ninth gen is based on speculation. Basically the graph you made does prove nothing, because the future is still up to speculation. The graph only proves your point in your eyes because you read it according to your worldview.