| RolStoppable said: Launch-aligned comparisons are useful to determine where a system is going. Of course the circumstances differ for each and every console, so the sales curves will never be 100% identical. But it's still much better to make such comparisons than not making them. Switch vs. Wii U launch-aligned demonstrates how much better Switch is doing. Switch vs. 3DS launch-aligned shows that Switch is in much better shape than the 3DS; not only didn't need Switch a price cut, but its sales are more evenly split across regions. In order to brush off launch-aligned comparisons as irrelevant, you would have to know the exact lifetime sales of any given console in advance. But nobody does, so launch-aligned comparisons are useful. What a launch-aligned comparison between Switch and the PS4 tells us is that the PS4 isn't setting bars that are insurmountable for any console coming after it; the comparison also shows that it's far from a given that Sony is and will be the biggest player in the video game market. |
I wasn't aware that this was a sentiment that anyone held. If anything I feel what the PS4 proved was that consoles weren't dead as many woulf have had us believe at the start of this gen and on the back of the WiiU failure.
I don't even think the PS4 is setting any bars... at the end of the day it's most likely that it won't sell as much as the PS2. which for so far is still the highest selling console of all time.
