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

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Hiku 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 don't know about the Media Create discussions in this regard, but this year, without a price drop, and with Switch hitting the market, PS4 had its best year ever. That's a fact easily recognized by anyone, whether you are a PS fan or not.
So it is difficult to see how Switch would have eaten into PS4 sales in any significant way, unless we expect PS4 would have sold 25m+ this year if Switch hadn't come out?

I didn't specifically take part in the discussion but it was about Japan sales over the course of a few weeks.