PS4 Won October NPD (PS4 > NS > XBO)

[DonFerrari]

Miyamotoo said:

DonFerrari said:

It is good, but we must always keep on mind it is 100 cheaper and launched with a very strong lineup, so they have less pricecuts to do (they are priced the same as PS4 is now after 5 years in the market without slowing down, which I don't think Switch would manage) and system sellers will run their course in the near future. So imho in the next 2 years Switch will probably start to be little below the curve of PS4 aligned.

Well you can say that PS4 was strongest console on market, has much stronger hardware than Switch, 500GB internal memory, Blu-ray support, much stronger 3rd party support...sales shows that both consoles are price aduquate on launch and now. Also you could bought PS4 last Holiday season for $200. I dont saying I disagree with you, I just bridging differences when you compare them.

 

Intrinsic said: 

Thats not what I meant by "going to be a tough sell".

What I meant is that shifting the idea of a switch per household (selling like a home console) to a switch per person (selling like a handheld and having multiple switchs in one household) is going to be a hard thing to accomplish.

My bad.

Well yeah, Switch or some kind of Switch revision would need to have price point of at least $200 to start selling like device per person. Also its very possible that we will have smaller cheaper Switch revsion whithout dock just for handheld play.

You weren't around pre-launch of this gen from the time of your joining....

There were major discussion and dishing of PS4 wouldn't win and in fact would be last with WiiU doing 100+M (because of Wii success), X1 winning the gen because MS had all the money and X360 showed they could fight and PS4 losing because the strongest console never won a gen, Sony was bankrupt and all.

So just saying PS4 is winning because it's stronger should also have show PS4Pro selling more than vanilla still it's about 20% of total sales after release, X1X should win against all consoles (which we don't see). Yes PS4 get spot discounts on BF, but you are talking about FY15 so it wasn't 199 then it would be a comparison of 299-399 price point of PS4 against Switch 299. And to not forget, last year and also this year during the year PS4 and Switch have been in price parity and still PS4 have been winning all the way until the Holidays (almost at 3M lead) and that is a console on it's 5th year and only one 25% pricecut (this have been the least discounted PS console and the fastest selling almost all the time since launch, and is back at being ahead of PS2 aligned).

Switch will do great numbers, but it won't get to cross 100M imho and if you decide to put the fault on power then you would have to explain why X1X loses to all. Switch success comes much more from the portability than it's falls comes from lack of power, unfortunately you can't have it all.