Global Weekly, 11th November 2017, Hardware

[DonFerrari]

Mr Puggsly said:

DonFerrari said:

Yep, holiday is strong for X1. For that reason on my prediction for BF I said X1 could win even though PS4 was rising YOY and both had deep price cuts.

Sure, if closing december 2015-16-17 totals are near I consider stable/flat, But the fact that November was very high doesn't give certainty to December. I was going more on the X1 being a lot down YOY up to November, but sure it can recover for December, but either way I think 2018 will be lower. But who knows, X1X can hit a stride and make 2018 bigger than the previous year. MS managed a second peak with Kinect why not with X1X?

The 360's success with Kinect was an anomaly.

2018 could see decline IF this is an exceptional year. But again, if its averagng about 8 million through the gen, thats stable and viable.

You do know that products have sales curves right? So considering this year as a little below 16 and over 15, 18 just makes sense as another down unless X1X takes off (which you think is unlikely) it isn't common in the least to have a console for 4 or 5 years fluctuating a "flat" sales.

adisababa said:
The switch sales are quite disappointing, it isn't really having a good first year compared to consoles that have been on the shelves for 3 years.

Looks like the hype is most certainly fading, except for Japan, it looks like the Switch will probably fade in Europe and in America too.

Errr but no... it's more likely for a console in the 3rd or 4th year to do better numbers than one on the 1st than the opposite... PS4 is to reach its peak this year or the next, and Switch is still on a growing part of the sales curve so nothing exceptional for it to not reach the sales of PS4 on this year.