NPD: Playstation 4 was the Best Selling Console of 2017 in the U.S.

[quickrick]

LipeJJ said:

quickrick said:

most of the time they rush the holiday launch, and are not really prepared at all. wii, 360, and ps2,  switch had more stock then those consoles during none holiday periods, ps3 couldn't launch in europe during the holidays because of stock problems. so everything points to being more prepared as being false.

Wii was unprepared simply because Nintendo never expected it to be that successful in the first place. 360 didn't do very well on its first years. I honestly don't know it went down with PS2, but it's so old that I don't know if its launch is comparable to anything new. Demand is always higher on holidays, be it a launch period or not, so there's nothing really that points towards the opposite really.

360 was sold out for months in the states, it had a bad first year because of stock issues, ps2 had insane shortages as well many people have confirmed this, as for the switch vs ps4 numbers shipments numbers, let's put switch at 3.3 million shipments in 45 days vs 4.2 million ps4 in 45 days, were looking at a 900k disadavantage  WW during the none holiday period for switch when there should be  at least 3 million advantage in sales on a regular stocked holiday.

Last edited by quickrick - on 21 January 2018