January 2018 NPD Thread! Switch #1

[Farsala]

Qwark said:

Farsala said:

I would be very happy if I were Sony and the console went up in its 5th year, but that would be abnormal. But like I said it hardly went up in the US. WW of course it did, and in Japan it went very far up.

A console on its 51st month / 5th January at this price in the US certainly shouldn't be doing this well.

There is no sign of the PS4 slowing down. The line up alone this year i's going to make sure of that. The console almost sold half a million units in Japan this year. And the PS4 hasn't even hit the $200 mark. When it does the PS4 is going to sell even faster.

You mention price, and that's the huge factor and the point of the post. If PS4 stays $299 all year, it really shouldn't do very well, just like this month was meh saleswise, but pretty good revenue wise. $199 lead to the PS4 getting completely sold out, so there is no telling how well it will do with that.