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Barkley on 21 October 2018
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quickrick said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

Wrong.

The PS4 SOLD 4.2 million units by December 28th, 2013. That's SOLD through to consumers. (https://www.sie.com/en/corporate/release/2014/140108a.html)

I can't tell whether or not the IR report is shipped or sold (I'm assuming shipped, lord knows we've come to that conclusion on many previous discussions after heated debate, and either way it doesn't matter considering that PS4's number is sold through) but it took Switch 3.75 months to hit 4.7 million units (https://wccftech.com/nintendo-switch-sold-4-7m-units-june-30/) 

In other words, PS4's sell-through rate in it's holiday launch was almost as much as Switch's shipments in almost FOUR MONTHS

4.2 million shipped.  dudejust compare time frames, with out a launch boost  and see the massive difference in shipments numbers. ps4 could have shipped 7- million easy with a holiday and launch boost, its regularly ships around 6-8 million during that period look at what switch is shipping this year in the same time period when it was supply contrained.

It's not 4.2m shipped, the article he links has a footnote that says it's estimated sell-through.

Shipments were 4.5m as of December 30th 2013. https://www.sie.com/en/corporate/data/hardware_sale.html

However I agree that a separate launch and holiday season is an advantage to a single holiday launch from a sales perspective. That is an advantage in favour of the Switch when it comes to launch aligned first year imo.