Global Hardware 7 July 2018

[Bofferbrauer2]

TheBlackNaruto said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Last quarter as a whole was around where it was expected. Some thought Europe was overtracked, but the QR proved them wrong, others hoped it would be more than 20M, but being slightly under was mostly expected, especially with the meeting late June warning about that possibility already.

However, the NPD prediction tool showed a massive rise in Switch sales since the release of MTA and only spiking with the release of Octopath and Captain Toad, while the PS4 sales slumped deeper and deeper, dropping below the XBO for most of the time. Here, it's quite the reverse right now.

Well it is only the start of July so there is no telling what the other weeks will look like. And also we can't forget the impact of Brick and Mortar sales.....those also play a pretty big role.

Thing is, the slump in PS4 sales was apparently at least partially due to shortages. If the online stores had shortages, then the brick&mortar ones definitely had, too.