| RolStoppable said: FINAL UPDATE: April 27th, 2018 Both Sony and Nintendo have announced their results for the full fiscal year. Sony: 19.0m PS4s, Vita undisclosed. In the final quarter of the fiscal year, Nintendo grew their lead of 1.48m to 2.45m before PlayStation Vita is factored in. This value of 2.45m makes it a little bit difficult to determine if Nintendo's win falls into the 1-2m range or the 2-3m range, but either way, it's certain that Nintendo is #1 again. I'll say that Nintendo's margin of victory falls into the 1-2m range, because it isn't really something that is worth fighting over and it has been a very long time since we've heard anything about Vita sales outside of Japan. As you can tell from the headline of this update, this thread has run its course and won't receive any further updates. A year ago this was a very interesting comparison, because anything other than a Sony win was going against the majority opinion. Now there's no question anymore regarding who is the #1 in the console business, because the forecasts for the fiscal year ending March 2019 are as follows: Sony: 16m PS4s, Vita undisclosed. That's such a big gap between forecasts that it is a foregone conclusion who will sell the most consoles in the fiscal year that started this month. The reason why there's no new snapshot of the poll in this final update is because only 24 new votes have come in during the last three months. Those are too few votes to have a meaningful impact on the results of a poll with over 900 votes in total. |
Good prediction, with SNES Mini that number is at 26.5m. In any case Intresting, Nintendo again start to have most sold hardware on market.
| jonathanalis said: I still think that Sony 2018 PS4 FY estimations are conservative and switchs FY estimations are too optimistic. I still think switch alone can dethrone ps4 in this year, but by a small margin(~1 million), not by 4 million, like the estimations suggest. |
Why do you think Switch estimations are too optimistic? Switch already have Smash Bros for this year and that definitely isn't only strong heavy hitter for this FY, we could easily have Pokemon for instance in November (with combination Smash + Pokemon Switch would easily hit 20m) and maybe even Animal Crossing in March. Actuayl Nintendo was quite conservative with Switch estimations from launch, its very posible that even this 20m are conservative.
