| Helloplite said: Hear me out: We all know that the Switch has been consistently outselling XBOX One, to the point that it now has nearly 40% of XBOX One's total sales, in little over a year since it launched. This is incredible, and provided Nintendo kept the same pace, and XBOX One ceased to sell at all, it would be likely that Nintendo would top its sales within 14-18 months time.
Of course, the above scenario is impossible. With XBOX One X, Microsoft has managed to resurrect the platform's sales, and they could well perform much higher than anticipated in 2018. Nintendo, on the other hand, would pretty much have to surpass their first year, which sounds impossible at this moment.
I understand that eventually, given current trends, Switch could outsell the XBOX. But if this happens at the twilight of this generation, then it would be a Pyrrhic victory.
Will the Switch surpass XBOX One (vanilla, S, and X) sales? |
A Pyrrhic victory is a victory so costly that it leads to the victor eventually losing the war. I don't see how that possibly could be applied to the Switch inevitably surpassing the Xbox One's lifetime sales figure. Regardless of when the Xbox One is discontinued, it was at retail almost 4 years earlier than the Switch. If the Switch surpasses its sales number at any point in the near future, which it more than likely will, there is nothing "Pyrrhic" about that. The Xbox One X, while it re-invigorated sales of the brand recently, I would imagine that a healthy portion of those new X owners were upgrading from Xbox One S' they already owned, therefore not really increasing the Xbox One's consumer base. If that is the case, the Xbox One's sales uptick would be the actual "Pyrrhic Victory".
