friendlyfamine said:
It isn't exactly a tall order but my point is that it isn't exactly easy for it to beat the PS4's first year. I never said it wasn't possible, and sure my maths weren't completely accurate, but even if we decide to use a 200k rate from now even that is quite unusual for Switch sales. From the Switch's week 10 to 30 (20 weeks) it sold under 200k consistently except the one week of 21 which was Splatoon 2's launch, heavily carried by Japan. Although after that, discounting weeks 32, 33 and 34 it has been selling over 200k. So if it can keep that momentum for the remaining of the next few months it will beat the PS4, but we haven't got any titles for January and February that are looking to keep that 200k+ sales rate. Unless we assume the Switch will naturally sell itself for the titles it already has available, along with the fact that there were presumably "stock issues" which held the aforementioned weeks of 10-30 back, then I guess it may be fine. But again, it's really hard to say what will happen. Two weeks left in December to gain a more sizeable lead still. |
The weeks which Nintendo had production issues and planned to sell only 10 millions in a year.. Production and demand is higher now I don't think the Switch will fall under 200k soon. The worst period is January with no big titles but it's usually a pretty solid month overall. February we have Bayonetta 1+2 so we will be fine.
Kicking off next FY with Kirby will be great.
