January 2018 NPD Thread! Switch #1

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Intrinsic said:

Nuvendil said:

Being under 1 year old is not a help.  Consoles peak at year 2, 3, or 4, not 1 typically.  

And no one is saying DBFZ and MHW are massive system sellers.  But they were the biggest sellers of the month and they were more than the Switch had pushing systems.  That is, nothing.

But thats the thing isn't it? It doesn't matter if they were the biggest sellers of the month if they aren't system sellers. They have just sold really well to an already existing install base. 

And this talk about being under one year or it peaking here or there.... the way i see sales is that sales are sales until it isn't. 

My point is, I strongly doubt there was anyone saying the PS4 would win the month because of this or that game; hell I think more than 99% of this site probably all felt the NS would win. So the only people that seem to be surprised about it are seemingly basing it off something that no one really actually thought would be a factor with regards to driving sales.

Which makes very little sense to me. The NS won, thats great. Its not somehow better because MHW released in the same month.

Many of the people who thought PS4 would win used MHW & DBZ as reasons.