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Lawlight on 21 August 2018
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Soundwave said:
Lawlight said:

The 360 and Wii have the best July in history and yet the PS4 will eclipse both so that doesn’t mean much. And it is not up to Nintendo to determine the life span of a system - it’s up to the market. The Swith may be gaining momentum but so far it’s basically neck and neck with the 3DS as far as we know based on the numbers that we have.

Switch is going to destroy 3DS' second full fiscal year and is notably outpacing it in the US NPD. 3DS 2012 is getting its ass whupped by Switch 2018. 

The fact is the Switch is selling virtually identical to the PS4 actually. It's US sales are trending much more in line with the PS4. 

In Europe we don't get regular hardware sales unfortunately but we can see Switch is showing software dominance and likely hardware sales, look at the Spain chart 8 top 10 games are Switch games, the last two charts from France show a clean sweep top 5 of all Switch games, even in the UK the top selling individual format game is Mario Kart 8 and half the top team individual SKUs are Switch games. We see Italy and Germany software sales charts dominated by Switch games too. 3DS was never performing like that in Europe. 

Switch will fucking demolish 3DS' peak year of 13.95 million. Abs-fucking-lutely demolishing that by 4-6 million this fiscal year and this fiscal year likely is not going to be the peak Switch year either. Labo hasn't broken out, most of the lineup this year is just Wii U ports so far and they are still going to demolish the 3DS' peak year. 

Anyone who thinks this another 3DS simply is not paying attention to what's actually going on. 

I was watching Pekin Express on M6, a French TV channel recently when I was away recently and the number of Switch ads shown was astounding. Nintendo are marketing the Switch like crazy in Europe and it’s still hasn’t caught the PS4’s sales yet. Not to mention that people are swiftly moving to digital on the PS4 so looking at retail charts is pointless these days.

But if you think the Switch will sell 100M or so, you’re free to do that.