December 2017 NPD Thread! Switch 1.5m, XBO 1.365m, PS4 1.08m, Xenoblade 280k

[killeryoshis]

Farsala said:

killeryoshis said:
Are console sales starting to get more seasonal? The PS4 is selling on par as the PS3 on non-holiday months this year. Which is crazy. However the difference is mostly made in the holidays. Same goes for the Xbox.

I'm guessing the deals for the holidays are getting better to the point where buying it on a non-holiday month is a waste?

The PS4 is pretty balanced with Q1+Q2+Q3 vs Q4 (WW shipments) . 12 vs 6.6, 9.4 vs 8.4, 9.7 vs 9.7, 10.4 vs >6m

It largely depends on games and PS4 Pro though.

Swith will be similar with 7.63m vs ~7.5m.

XB1 however I don't believe is balanced at all with its recent performance vs XB1X and price cut boost.

Well that's the thing. I remember back during the Wii days the HD twins' ratio to holiday to non-holiday months were lower. The holiday boosts weren't high for them. Looking at this chart


You can see from this that PS4 and PS3 sales are practically identical in Non-holiday months. Yet when you reach the holiday season the difference is very large in favor of the PS4. When you compare the holiday ratio with the Switch it just proves my point. Nintendo systems have always sold really well on the holidays. That''s been the case forever. What surprises me is that the PS4 and Xbox are now following the trend as well. Could it be due to all the holiday deals? I think so.  When you can save $100 on a system just by waiting until the holiday season one must wonder what is the point of buying a system in a non-holiday month.