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yvanjean on 18 June 2018
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xMetroid said:
CartBlanche said:
If anyone is paying attention to the weekly % change for the weeks in April, all consoles are selling less, but PS4 is slowing down slower than both Switch or Xbox One.
I suspect the hype for the Switch is dying down faster, while the PS4 is on a more steady decline, hence why it is still selling more world-wide than Switch. Only region Switch is outselling PS4 is Japan, which is understandable.

Switch is doing better than last year what do you mean lol ? Also PS4 is still down with a better 1st half in 2018 compare to 2017... Let's see if it will drown during summer or actually keep a good pace. 

Switch on the other hand had a drought during first half and the games are coming for the end of June and July as far as we know. It will likely pick up a bit of speed again and will blow everything during the holidays. Switch outsold considerably the PS4 in their 1st year and will likely do the same with the second. 

PS4: I would say that PS4 has already peak last year but their wild card is PS4 owners converting to PS4 Pro added to casual gamer picking much cheaper PS4 consoles.
September should be bigger month with the release of Spiderman (But does this game have limited appeal? can it sell over 8 million copies and get in the top 10 PS4 games?)

I don't think Sony will do better then 2017, but they will still easily out sell Microsoft or Nintendo worldwide. 

XB1: Microsoft will do very well when compare to their own performance: (I expect that Microsoft will rebound from last year and this could be the Console peak year with 9m+) 
1. They won E3 (IMO)
2. The Xbox one X will benefit from Sony not giving any news on the PS5 and it seem more likely like next gen of consoles won't be till 2020 or later. 
3. Cheap Xbox one S with game pass is great value proposition. 

Switch: Is on pace to already have a better year then 2017, expect a big boost in the holidays while people are still interest in picking up the new consoles and Smash coming out in December just in time to boost Xmas numbers.
Disappointing E3 for Nintendo (IMO) and we are getting a slower more Nintendo like pace to game release.  

I really hope that Nintendo drop the 3DS entirely or the system only get Switch port going forward. Focusing only on one consoles should really increase Nintendo output of games... compare to Wii and WiiU. 

Last edited by yvanjean - on 18 June 2018