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quickrick on 21 March 2018
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AngryLittleAlchemist said:
xMetroid said:
I really dont think the PS4 will take this. Switch has nothing early 2018 but its still ahead. It will have a killer fall/holiday period which can outplay a better first half of a year easily.

Don't forget Switch will have its first black friday deals this year, more stock, Smash and online and more ofc.

I don't know. When the year started, I thought the PS4 had a good chance of beating Switch. When you factor in that January was 5 weeks for Switch and 4 for PS4 too, you realize that they're probably about equal in terms of sales for the first two months combined. 

However, what's really damning to me is that the second half of the year is going to have Fire Emblem, Super Smash Brothers, and Animal Crossing or Pokemon.

Fire Emblem's popularity is underestimated and Fates is pretty undertracked here. It sold 1.84 million copies (https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2016/160427_4e.pdf) just one month after it's release in the U.S., which was 7 months after it's release in Japan, but also 2 months before it's release in the EU and AU. I don't expect it to give a huge hardware boost, but it should give a pretty decent one in the U.S. and a big one in Japan. It will do even more if it ends up being an ambitious title. 

The other two games speak for themselves. 

using resetera 125% for 5 week period, ps4 would be up by 30k.