Kristof81 on 10 March 2018
| StarDoor said: Why are you doing calendar alignment for software sales? That doesn't make any sense. Software sales are a function of total install base, so Switch and 3DS are at a huge disadvantage by only having 10 months worth of sales and a single holiday season, when Wii, PS4, XOne, PS3, DS, X360, and Wii U had 14 months and two holidays. |
Any calendar alignments in my figures start from the beginning of first full fiscal year, aka 1st of April (I should've added some asterix to the chart), or the closest date to it, as we're dealing with weekly figures. So it cancels all launch figures up to nearest April, which in case of Switch and 3DS would be 1 month worth of sales and in case of, let's say, PS4 four-ish months. As it's calendar alignment, all of those systems have had equal amount of holiday season sales accounted for. The calculation method is simply the sum of software sales from their first April to the date shown in the attached table.
