PS4 VS Switch lifetime sales, which console will sell the most?

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Intrinsic said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:
PS4 will be the winner of Generation 8. Switch will be the winner of Generation 9. How will each do? PS4 will do quite well and finish in that table's S rank. Switch is another story altogether.

Switch will amaze people starting in 2019. 2018 will be a disappointing year for Switch, and Nintendo will have a fair amount of supply sitting on the shelves in most of the world. Roughly the time that Pokemon is released Switch consoles are going to start flying off the shelves. People will even say that Pokemon single-handedly saved the Switch, but the truth is that a bunch of Japanese 3rd party games will also be released around the same time. Sometime in 2019 Nintendo will run out of stock in their major territories. In 2020 and later years they are going to sell record numbers. The Switch will become this cultural phenomenon like people have never seen before.

In short this table will have to create a new SSS rank just for the Switch. It is going to get all of the people who would normally be in the handheld market plus a huge chunk of the home console market. It will be a console like no other.

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Only thing I agree with is the bolded part. 

And that actually is something iteresting. The PS4 and NS aren't even in the same generation of consoles. So yes, the PS4 will win gen 8, nintendos gen 8 console was the wiiU.  The NS I believe will win gen 9, when its gen 9 counterparts the PS5 and XB2 comes along. 

Now the funny thing about all this is this; the NS stands to sell better than any home console. If and only if it sells like a hybrid that it is. So based on that it will outsell the PS4 at the end of the day but lose gen 8. Win gen 9 by default because by the time the PS6 is released I strongly doubt the PS5 would have sold as much as the NS. Unless for some reason MS pulls out of the home console space.

Well, at least we agree on something. :)

The release date of the Switch is a lot like the release date of the Genesis.  The Genesis released in 1989, technically to compete with the NES.  The SNES released in 1991, two years later, and history has put them in the same generation ever since.  

I think it is very likely that the PS5 is coming in 2019.  It will be in the considered in the same generation as the Switch.