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thismeintiel on 11 January 2018
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Genos8 said:
CGI-Quality said:

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.

Is it really that hard to understand? Last year was the launch of the PS4 Pro. That really could explain it all. Though, if Sony had been more aggressive in Dec, they could have easily made that up. Either keeping the plain PS4 at $199 (or at least $229), or by having more bundles at $249, possibly with 2+ games. Instead, they didn't really do much to combat their competition, but still ended up only 300K down for the holidays.