"The Nintendo Switch Is Selling Exactly As Fast As Sony's PS4" - Forbes

[DonFerrari]

Wyrdness said:

DonFerrari said:

During the first 6 months of both consoles mentioned there was no level of certainty that one would go 100M and the other 15M.

Current Switch sales data is insufficient to say it won't sell less than 50M, it is quite improbable, but not impossible yet.

Disagree the were signs one was the fastest selling products the other one of the slowest to date, early momentum and market situation is a good indicator of what lies ahead, Wii was selling high numbers to new gamers outselling the 360 in 10 months while Wii U was selling low numbers and people didn't know a new console was even out. For Switch the is no other portable device for the 70m 3ds owners and 14m Vita owners to go to for portable gaming the biggest hurdle was the price and Switch brushed that aside, that alone along with the momentum the platform has adds certainty to reaching 50m.

This is before we get to the likes of IPs like Pokemon, AC, Tomodachi and such, Switch also has better support than 3DS and Wii U did as well all the while the platform is still having issues meeting demand 9 months in despite reaching 10m units a week ago.

That is why I said it isn't certain but it's very very very unlikely that Switch do lower than 50M