September NPD 2018 thread, results up! PS4 421K; NSW 259K; XB1 176K; 3DS 81K

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quickrick said:

TheBlackNaruto said:

I will just say this man. It doesn't look like it is losing momentum to me. But more like the calm before the storm.......with Smash coming and that Pokemon bundle(even if it isn't a mainline game) I am sure things will pick up. And it was not most people that predicted that the Switch would destroy the PS4 this year. Just a few diehard Nintendo fans and clearly they were wrong. Let's not confuse the minority with the majority on this.

it will do the same numbers from last year imo in the holidays, reports from insiders is pokemon hype is weak.

The switch did 5.8m for november+december last year. If it did the same again this year we'd be looking at maybe 15m sold to consumers for the fiscal year, and with a forecast of 20m shipped that would be disastrous.

Personally I think Switch is going to have a much stronger holiday and hit 7m for NOV+DEC. 6m or less would be very troubling after it's relatively weak first (probably first two) quarters this fiscal year.