Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - 10th - 16th April 2017

[Mnementh]

naruball said:

Mnementh said:

I know you're baiting, but I bite. It doesn't matter as which successor the selling company places a device, it matters what people make of it. Seemingly looking at the charts the japanese take the Switch as Vita-successor. 3DS isn't hurt so far by Switch. So now we rephrase your statement: "Was there any doubt that the Vita successor would outsell the PS4?" Yes, there was doubt.

This is so flawed, it's not even funny. How did the ps2 and nds do after 3ds and ps3 launched?

According to VGC, numbers in the year before and after launch (if launch was late in the year like November I count the year as pre-launch, if it was early in the year like March as after launch).

PS3	2013: 8.25M	2014: 3.56M
X360	2013: 6.24M	2014: 2.60M
Wii	2012: 5.08M	2013: 1.95M
PSP	2011: 7.46M	2012: 4.22M
DS	2010: 20.62M	2011: 8.76M

As you can see, all major hardware in recent gens that got a successor that was taken as such took a major hit to the sales. You see the biggest outlier is the PSP, the Vita didn't took off that hot, so probably not many PSP-owners saw the Vita as a viable successor. 3DS so far seems to be quite stable, while Vita seems to be affected. Give me different data to go by, and I may change my mind, but the data so far suggests that SO FAR people not taking Switch so much as a 3DS-successor, but as a Vita-successor.