Amazon U.S. September 2018 bestsellers and general Amazon-based discussion

[Bofferbrauer2]

Kerotan said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

True, but

1. PS4 started this year with double the install base of the Switch, giving it a big head start, especially with

2. A third of the software sales, around 2M, comes from MHW alone, which launched early this year

Would the PS4 have been crushed software wise despite those two points, then PS4 must have been doing really badly or Switch selling about twice as many consoles a week

PS4 has only a handful games that really have some legs. PS4 still dominates numerically the COMG preorder charts, but most of those games drop out of the sales charts by their second or third week. This will negatively impact PS4 software and hardware sales in the future.

It's silly to say it only did well because of mhw. So what it doesn't count or something? It's like me saying in December, oh switch dominated only because of smash. 

 

He stated ps4 was crushed this year and he's wrong. All I did was correct him and i feel rightfully so. 

I think you missed my point.

My point was that PS4 and Switch only have a similar amount of software sales now due to having much more early on and basically since March Nintendo has been playing catch-up to get to these numbers. On a weekly basis Switch is normally largely outselling the PS4 both in terms of hardware and software, but due to the huge lead early on it doesn't show on the software totals yet - but definitely will during the holiday season.