Predict Switch Sales and Factors in Switch Sales in 2018 (Thoughts & Poll Included)

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nemo37 said:

peachbuggy said:

I think you are being a bit pessimistic tbh. If someone wants a switch, they will likely wait until they can procure one. Of course there may be some impulse buys of MH which may affect Switch sales but only temporarily. Am sure things will return to "normal"  in 1 or 2 weeks. There has been much ado in the past on the media create threads about whether Switch was cannibalising PS4 sales. Nearly all of the PS fans insisted it wasn't. Therefore it works both ways. The consensus was that they are not competing directly, or there is, at least only a small overlap.

I see. NPD's Mat Piscatella, stated something to the same effect about the audiences not overlapping in a major way and Switch largely addressing a different segment of the market (at least in the US; and he should know since he access to all market figures). All of this is really making me believe that the video game industry as a whole is much bigger than I actually believed it was.

Well i guess it is, if you factor in lapsed gamers, nostalgic gamers, the huge casual market that comes and goes, regular gamers, families and hardcore gamers there are lots of different demographics. Nintendo and Sony were originally after a similar demographic, so there is some overlap, although it seems quite a few people own both consoles. With LABO though, Nintendo is spreading out its reach to include other demographics, so hopefully will be able to diversify and massively extend their userbase. When Animal Crossing comes out, Nintendo will be reaching out to one of the rarer demographics. Female gamers! (Hope i'm not deemed as being too sexist here!)