PS4 Sells 5.9 Million Units Worldwide During 2017 Holiday Season, >73.6 Million Sold Through

[Genos8]

CGI-Quality said:

Genos8 said:

One piece of hardware and it's not about it selling more than the year before. It's about denying that it was affected. We do have some data already, showing ps4 selling less in 2017 holidays when compared to 2016. By "coincidence", that's when the switch finally got a considerable stock.

I haven't denied any affect. I said it wasn't significant and presented a reason for thinking so. Now, you're changing from 2017, overall, to holiday sales. You also leave out that the PS4 had a new piece of kit come out last holiday (which, by "coincidence" would have helped it sell more during that time). Plus, by how much did the PS4 sell less? 300K. In this context, that is not significant, even before we consider that the Switch wouldn't have been responsible for each one of those sales.

It was up by a few million in the rest of the year. Suddenly dropping in the holidays doesn't make sense on it's own. I didn't change anything, the holidays are still part of 2017 and the switch was too supply constrained to affect it much before that period.