GribbleGrunger said:
It would be absolutely dire if the Switch wasn't above the PS4 at this point in its cycle. For a console that's over three years old now, the PS4 maintaining a spot in the top 20 is extremely good. As I pointed out before the Switch launched, we need to wait two to three months to see what things will settle down to. Switch 'should' hold steady though, although I'm not seeing that much in the way of system selling software at the moment which isn't going to help. I think Zelda will help but the uptake of that title is so extremely good, selling more copies than consoles sold, I'm not sure how that plays into sales in the long term. |
The biggest/entire reason the Switch is selling now is due to Zelda, so your comment doesn't make much sense to me? That's system selling software, just because it sold even better than the Switch itself in the US first month isn't somehow a bad thing for the game selling consoles in the long run. That means some people either bought 2 copies of it for collection sake and/or people were buying the game but couldn't find a Switch, so it was an investment towards an eventual Switch purchase.
Not sure how you can possibly spin that as a bad thing in regards to being a system seller long run. You can't play the game without the system. Not sure how Switch sales will play out in the long run but Zelda outselling the console itself doesn't seem like it'd be a factor to me.
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