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

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Intrinsic said:

zorg1000 said:

It absolutely makes a difference.

 

A user on this site, Shadow1980, who is known for his charts/graphs has data that shows every single console that launched in Nov had similar sales in Dec while every console launched outside of the holidays had a sharp drop in the 2nd month.

 

Youre right that PS4 1st month sales would have likely stayed the same but its 2nd month sales would likley have been very different if it launched outside of the holidays because people are far more likely to spend hundreds of dollars on gaming in Dec compared to April.

As much sense as all that makes... that would only be rlevant if in the second month of the NS being available you could see them everywhere.

You couldn't... they were still out of stock. Which means that nintendo was selling as much as they were making. 

over 4 months on and the stock situation is still not the best in the world. 

What all this proves is that even if they released in november last year, or november this year, they would have sold the exact same amount of consoles because they were stock restricted.

Unless of course the console was ready for launch in june and the just manufactured and stockpiled consoles for a november launch.

exactly even ps4 which had way more hype, then NS, sony only managed 2 million for the holiday launch. If nintendo had enough stock they could have did 1.6 easy there first 2 months of launch.