Farsala said:
Regardless if it's Switch or PS4, 175k is pretty dreadful. Especially if the console is expected to sell a ton.
Because the sales were so poor for PS4 in its 2nd April it even lost the month to XB1. While we didn't expect Switch to beat PS4 with GoW month, I personally expected 200k+.
All 3 consoles exceeded my expectations last month, but only PS4 did that this month. PS4 might be strongly up YoY in US, but its probably down YoY for everywhere else leading to Sony's expectations of lower shipments.
|
But even without those 175k for PS4 in 2nd April on market, best previous month before this April with GoW was 206k for PS4
Hiku said:
Miyamotoo said:
IT early to say how much Switch will sell at end that depends from many factors, including life span and number of revisions, but at end of this year will be easily at 30m+.
PS4 sales are irelevent when we talk about Switch sales. FY 2018. starts in April 2018. and ending on 31. March 2019. So how PS4 and Switch until now (its only counts April) doesnt relly matter especially because Switch will start getting stronger titles later from June. Last year in October-December quarter Switch sold around 7m, you can bet that Pokemon would push that number for same period easily above 7m.
There is reason why Sony expecting that PS4 will sell 16m and why Nintendo expecting that Switch sell 20m, Smash Bros and Pokemon would whitout problem push Switch to 20m in FY 2018. because we talk about one of Nintendo biggest system seller games.
|
@Miyamotoo
I don't know about without a problem, because 20m in a year is a lot for any system. Smash couldn't do much for WiiU obviously. But at this point I have no particular reason to doubt Switch will reach its projection. But I think it's safe to say that Switch will primarily be driven by those type of core quality games, unlike the Wii where a substantial amount of people bought it for motion control titles like Wii Sports.
So it will be interesting to see how these games push Switch sales especially in its second year, when stock shortages aren't the issue they were in 2017, so it's easier to gauge how much interest there actually is.
|
Any game couldn't done anything for Wii U obviously, Wii U had 3D Mario, MK8, Smash Bros, Mario Maker and Splatoon, but all those games come on Wii U when Wii U was alredy considered for fail and they couldnt change much. Yeah, Wii was primarily sold to casuals users, Switch is more core oriented. I dont have any reason to doubt that Smash Bros + Pokemon will sell tons of Switch units.
.
