| MasonADC said: Sales this year will be sooo interesting, True competition will come from all three companies. |
Unfortunately this is just not the case. No matter how many here would like it to be true. Nintendo has pretty much guaranteed that the only fair way to compare sales of these consoles is in retrospect.
It makes zero sense comparing sales of a console in its 2nd year to sales of consoles 4 years older than it. Like zero sense at all.
On one hand you have a console that is new and should be on the rise towards its peak year and you are comparing it on the other hand to consoles that should have peaked and should be on the decline.
Then there is also the market saturation thing to consider, taking the PS4 for instance, there isn't any reason why it should continue pushing 17-20M years indefinitely, its gotta saturate its market at some point.
Only fair thing we can do now is compare the respective 1,2,3....etc year sales of these consoles. And even at that we don't a real picture of the state of things until the Switch 2 is released. Because make no mistake, before the NS even gets to its 4th year, chances are extremely high that bot Sony and MS would have moved onto their next consoles.
