xMetroid on 31 January 2018
| Shadow1980 said: Some caveats. 1) The Switch was launched in early March and thus is only about 11 months old. The Wii, PS4, and PS2 had yet to have a full post-launch holiday season after 11 months. 2) The Switch had a simultaneous global launch. The PS4 wasn't released in Japan until Feb. 2014. The PS2 wasn't released in the West until it had been out in Japan for like seven months. Looking at it on a region by region basis and using more accurate comparisons than simple launch-aligned LTD numbers, it becomes clear that the Switch, though it is doing very well, is most certainly not the fastest-selling system ever. |
Companies are launching with holidays in mind during fall launches. Its not like Switch didn't get its stock problems. It just got it during the entire year instead of christmas which still had some btw.
Also, PS4 fell under 10k in japan pretty quickly, it wouldn't make much difference. Switch still has market to be launched into and got some success in SK and taiwan only in December.
