Switch > XB1 > PS4 During December In US - Greenberg (Confirmed, read OP)

[DonFerrari]

Ryng_Tolu said:

Shadow1980 said:
This has probably been gone over already, but if what Magicpork on ResetEra is right, then we can make some approximations for year-end sales based on his ratio for combined Q2-Q4 sales. We know that the Switch sold at least 3.9M for the Q2-Q4 period, so that gives us the following for the others:

PS4: 4.29M
XBO: 3.59M
3DS: 1.87M

We never got 3DS numbers for Jan. or March, but we do have Q1 figures for the PS4 & XBO, which means we can estimate that they have sold, respectively about 5.3M and 4.2M for 2017 as a whole.

If true, this also means the PS4 had an absolutely massive drop both month-over-month and year-over-year for December. In fact, it was enough to prevent 2017 from being the PS4's peak year in the U.S., though 2017 as a whole was still up from 2016.

It would also explain a good chunk of the PS4's year-over-year decline globally from Dec. 2016.

Sony really should have kept the PS4 at $199 during the entire holiday period.

I won'd update my charts until we get something a little more concrete.

3DS is over 2 million in 2017 for sure, no way it sold less than 130K in the first quarter of the year.

That's really good for a 7 years system!

 

3DS sales

2011 ~4.1M

2012 ~ 3.6M

2013 ~ 3.8M

2014 ~ 2.6M

2015 ~ 2.4M

2016 ~ 2.5M

2017 > 2M

A very smooth drop.