Year 1 - Week 52 - Global Switch Sales vs WiiU/XboxOne/3DS/PS4

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Dr.Vita said:

SpokenTruth said:

If Switch in March/April with shortages outsold PS4/Xone in Nov/Dec, that would not be good for PS4/Xone.

Actually the shortages for PS4/XOne in 2013 were huge, much bigger than Switch shortages now.
And PS4/XOne launched simultaneously so they were competing directly against each other unlike Switch which had no big launch competition.

I can recall shortages for the PS4 in2013 to the first half of 2014, but the Xbox One?...
Before the system got it's first price cut and dropped the Kinect, it was barely selling over 40k a week, which was around the same level as the Vita and Wii U. 
If your main, number 1 system is selling at the same level or less than that of the Wii U and Vita... YOU. FUCKED. UP.
The main reason sales weren't as high as some people hoped or expected initially was because... nobody wanted it. It was gathering dust sitting in store shelves the first 6 months of its life.
A lot of people seem to have forgotten this, but the biggest reason why the PS4 is selling the huge numbers it is now and the Xbox One, not so much, all goes back to one month before E3 2013, right up to the event itself, and that ABSOLUTEY DISASTROUS, Xbox One Reveal.
- $500
- Mandatory Kinect connectivity in order for your system to even work.
- Anticonsumer DRM policies
- It's over emphasis on TV and DEemphasis on actual games.
All Sony had to do was the opposite and just NOT fuck up, and they automatically won the 8th generation.