| zorg1000 said: Not sure if im understanding you, are you saying Switch won because its the cheapest of the 3? |
Nope. I'm just saying that since the PS4 and the XB1 compete in the same market (unlike the Switch), and since we're talking about the US were the XB is still relevant (unlike the rest of the world), at this point of the cicle the cheapest console (between PS4 or XB1) probably benefits more from the release of important multiplatform games. This is not the case in Europe. Here the XB brand is weaker then ever, so even though MHW is still a multiplatform game and the PS4 is slightly more expensive than the XB1, you see good PS4 sales and poor xbox sales. So basically the Switch "won" Jan NPD simply thanks to the xbox strenght in the USA. In other markets were the ps brand is more powerful, mainly for historical reasons, the PS4 doesn't have a strong competition and it just draws in all the customers interested in non-Nintendo games, so to speak. But I'm just stating the obvious here...I think.
What I find interesting, however, is that if we compare the two markets ("Nintendo experience" vs "PS/Xbox experience") in both the USA and Europe, we have a 1:2 ratio. I wonder if it'll stay the same in the following weeks...now that switch stock issues are basically gone and sales are more stable and uninflated by weird events, I'm curious to see how the "nintendo experience" compares to the "mainstream experience" outside of Japan.
