NPD, PS4 2015 vs NSW 2018 (December added)

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quickrick said:

AngryLittleAlchemist said:

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.

It's actually 27.5k.