quickrick said:
Its down around 20% from last year, and if switch wasn't so supply constrained last year the gap would be much bigger. |
Its expected that April would probably be worse compared to last year because of on last year April Switch launch had effect, May of this year is actually YOY. Despite Switch was supply constrained last year sell numbers were good in any case, and Switch now is selling similar whithout huge game compared to last year when we had Zelda BotW and MK8D until now.
DonFerrari said:
So you could say 2018 Switch sales were good (without comparing to 2017), and do 2017 without excusing stocks, that is the point. You can't have the argument two fold, "2017 we didn't sell great because we had stock issues, but 2018 is good because we sold equal to 2017". It is, 2017 and 2018 had good sales, period.
I'm arguing exactly the person doing an either/or. If you say 2018 sales are good because it is similar to 2017 then you shouldn't be excusing 2017 on stock. Because saying 2017 would be bigger with more stock, then 2018 isn't good since it only done equal 2017 because 2017 had stock issues. |
Yeah, I can say that Switch sales this year are good whitout comparing to last year or PS4 second year on market, but there is nothing wrong even if you compare them to last year Switch numbers or second PS4 year because we talking about similar numbers.
You still have hard time realising that Switch last year very good sales numbers despite stock problems, it could sell even more with more stock problems, but sales on first place were good in any case.
Like Zorg wrote, "Last year had supply issues but sales were still good and this years sales are good", its simple as that, but from some reason you still can get it.
Farsala said:
Again, it is hard to say Switch sales are good when it has 2 games in the top 10 and only manages to beat PS4's worst May by a slim margin, and not coming close to the others. |
Games can be sold well but they are not big system seller games like games I mentioned, fact that Switch second May is stronger than second PS4 May and better than best XB1 May tell us that this years Switch May numbers are not bad.
Farsala said:
But 2017 sales weren't good. Stock issues were a viable excuse though. Being a tiny step above PS4's worst May with 2 software releases in top 4 isn't good, its okay. |
Fact is that 2017. sales were good, numbers proves you are wrong, despite stock problems, Switch had best 1st year ever in US.
Last edited by Miyamotoo - on 20 June 2018
