Will this be the last year PS4 outsells Switch?

[TheBlackNaruto]

xMetroid said:

haxxiy said:

Back on the late Wii days the Nintendo console was, indeed, proportionally stronger on its holiday period than its competitors. However, last year the Switch was outsold by the PS4 in November-December. So, while some are expecting a repeat of the former, other are expecting the later. It's not unreasonable.

Console in its PEAK + incredible deals vs a new console couple of months old facing stock issues and with no deal or even bundles. A console in launch period isnt going to sell 20 million consoles lmao. It did like what almost 17 million vs 14 for the ps4.

 

Y'all need to realise first year =/= sales for life. Switch faced a drought (which is normal after first months of launch) and nintendo literally didnt announce anything for the future during this period so the hype naturally went down. The console still stayed around 200k a week without big announcements or big games for months. 

 

Switch is finally getting some support in Japan and sales their will explode with the upcoming games. Switch is also growing fast in Europe, even in the UK it is doing really well compare to a couple of months back and that's without any big titles... DKC did that so imagine when pokemon and smash are coming. Switch still have some places to release in RoW like China and Arena of Valor is entering beta soon if thats any indication of a release there soon.

 

Not saying ps4 can't win the year, but judging the Switch on its first year (which was one of the best of all time for sale numbers) which clearly had stock issues and no deals/bundle and looking at numbers from the drought period when the second half is packed of game is so dumb.

 

Ps4 didn't win by that much and had GoW, MHW, SotC etc and is entering a somewhat drought in the next months.

Wasn't GoW the only big gun that the PS4 had though? If you are going to count MHW and SotC like that for PS4 yo can't forget stuff like LABO and Kirby for Switch. And isn't the gap close to 2million right now and growing every week? And isn't the Switch also entering a drought in the next couple months? Also outside of the $199 for that one week last year what incredible deals did the PS4 have? And why would Nintendo of had to make new big announcements? It still had MK8, MO AND Zelda(3 of the best rated and top selling games) along with Splatoon 2 going strong for it and was/is the hottest new system on the market. It is like you are giving out all these factors for PS4 but ignoring the ones for the Switch(Which is selling very well). At least balance it out geesh lol. And then the person you quoted didn't even say anything bad lol.

I personally think this year will be close for the two with the PS4 edging out the Switch. And the holidays for this year are a HUGE toss up! The Switch with Smash, it's second Holiday with deals this time and other hidden announcements. The PS4 with Spider-man, BO4 and another possible $199 PS4 deal will be huge. All in all it will be another great year for us gamers!!!