PS4 Won October NPD (PS4 > NS > XBO)

[Megiddo]

zorg1000 said:

Megiddo said:

Yes, it is flat YoY against a year where Nintendo couldn't manufacture enough Switch units to satisfy demand resulting in stock shortages. I'm not sure why you think that's odd. Do you think that the Switch would be even remotely close to flat YoY if Nintendo didn't have widespread stock shortages last year and could actually meet the demand for their product as they have been doing so for this entire year? Do you think that the stock shortages didn't have any impact whatsoever on the first two quarters of FY17?

Stock issues were solved everywhere outside of Japan by this point last year. Calendar year shipments through September are 2017-7.63m vs 2018-8.00m so basically a wash when factoring in Japan shortages.

Where are you getting 8.00m shipments for 2018? It's at 5m for quarters 1 and 2 if I'm not mistaken. Oh wait, why are you bringing up calendar year and not fiscal year shipments? FY17 and FY18 are neck and neck through two quarters. The main difference being that the Switch has been in ample supply this entire first half of the fiscal year whereas there were humongous supply issues throughout nearly the entire first half of FY17.

Last edited by Megiddo - on 20 November 2018