January 2018 NPD Thread! Switch #1

[TheBlackNaruto]

tbone51 said:

TheBlackNaruto said:
I am so lost here.....why do people keep saying stuff like wow PS4 couldn't win with MHW....while it did MUCH better than previous entries of the game......was this supposed to be some huge system seller/pusher for the US to have an impact like that on NPD? I always looked at it and even Dragonball fighter Z to have a bigger impact in Japan WHICH THEY DID lol. So why are people saying stuff like PS4 lost with MHW and Dragonball fighter Z?

Anyway I am back late....do we have any new info?

I think its more to do with switch having no new releases compared to that of x1/ps4 having 2 big games (not system sellers)

Are they really that big outside of Japan though? MHW especially sold great compared to other entries and was #1 but was it really as big of a system seller/pusher in the West as people are trying to make it out to be? And the Switch has won months in which it had no new releases since launch so why is it a surprise that it won lol. It is still the hot new item on the market after all.

wombat123 said:

tbone51 said:

I think its more to do with switch having no new releases compared to that of x1/ps4 having 2 big games (not system sellers)

Yeah, I think some people who are discrediting the impact of MHW and DBFZ in the west for the PS4/XB1 are forgetting that the most relevant release the Switch got in January was a digital, multiplat, indie, 2D platformer in Celeste.

I have seen no one discrediting the impact of MHW and DBFZ in the west but I am seen people pretending they were these huge games in the west like they were supposed to push lots of systems. When the place that they were going to have the biggest impact they did. And as I stated above switch has won months where it had no new releases since it launched. It is still the hottest new item so why is it surprising? The surprise would have come if it HAD NOT won this month.