| Mnementh said: Nope, you get me wrong. Yes, I assume the holidays are bigger for the Switch than the PS4, so the gap will reduce. But it is hard to close 3M. But even then sales of the Switch are lagging behind, shipments might be a lot closer, because as I said: pre-peak shipments are bigger than sales, post-peak it is the other way. PS4 is post it's peak, Switch is pre-peak. So while in sales PS4 might win 2018, shipments might be much closer or even reversed. And then for the FY we still have another quarter. As the talk was about the projections of Sony and Nintendo, I considered shipments, because the projections are for that. To be precise: shipments of Switch could be 1 million above sales for the FY, while for PS4 shipments could be one million below sales. If you look in the past, in the first years shipments for PS4 also outdid the sales. It's a pretty consistent pattern for all consoles. |
Ok then, my bad. On this note I totally agree with you. NS shipments should be higher than PS4 shipments. Hell, just ging by the FY announced shipments alone thats already showing to be the case. 17.5M for the PS4 and 20M for the NS.
