NPD: U.S. video game spending up 24% to $9.1 billion in Q3 2018 led by xbone, and ps4

[DonFerrari]

Shadow1980 said:

DonFerrari said:
Flat/small decline isn't good on the second full year no matter how much excuses we do for it.

 

John2290 said:
Switch is flattening out. Hopefully this doesn't reflect holiday sales.

The fact that the Switch is flat is completely understandable. Growth doesn't happen on its own. There needs to be some factor to produce growth, and there has been nothing as of yet to drive any sort of sales growth for the Switch this year. The system still retails for its launch price of $300, there hasn't been a hardware revision, and there were no major software releases that were likely to move an appreciable amount of units. The latter factor is not an issue this quarter as Pokemon Let's Go and Smash are likely to produce significant YoY increases for holiday period sales. After the holidays? Sales will probably stay flat from this year unless there is a price cut or a major hardware revision.

Sure there are reasons for the lack of growth. And we I'm talking if that is over the whole year not only some Qs.

Since you keep data for most relevant consoles, do you remember one that where flat on the second full year and ended up a massive success? Because I'm pretty confident Switch will sell a lot, but this may be a sign of very early peak year while people are expecting Nintendo to keep Switch as current gen for as long as 6 or 7 years.