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xMetroid on 04 June 2018
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TheBlackNaruto said:
xMetroid said:

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!!!

My point is PS4 sales didn't increase much from GoW was far more hyped for than spiderman. There as been so many call of duty games and the new one is also having backlash once again, i dont see how it will fight against the first HD pokemon game and a new Smash. Kirby isn't a system seller and literally got shit on by critics, Labo is aimed at kids and will most likely pick up in the fall/holiday season or never will. 

 

Just saying y'all expect it to break big numbers with releases while it got barely any bumps with all the big games (which were more hyped up compare to the ones coming in the rest of the year... except from RDR2 but thats not exclusive). Yes the 200$ pack will probably be big again but this time im pretty sure Nintendo wont put any deals during BF since Switch will out for almost 2 years at that point. Switch also didn't have much big seller in Japan but will have some in the second half so we can expect the sales to grow a lot there.. so will the WW numbers compare to the PS4 that played all its cards in japan and will probably have a severe drop during summertime. Switch has been rising in Europe in the past months, it will probably rise even MORE once they actually put out new games starting with MTA which is doing hella good on amazon everywhere.

 

Anything can change with E3 and if Nintendo fuck it up big time but they clearly can outsell the PS4 if they play their cards right.