November NPD 2018 Thread

[colafitte]

JSG87 said:

colafitte said:

I called it "very good", if you prefer the term "great", is fine by me too. And what i said is i find more impressive what PS4 and XBO did than Switch and that Switch is not that impressive as some people say, but that doesn't mean Switch sales are not impressive too. Is just that they're not as impressive as Wii or PS4....in just my humble opinion, nothing stupid in that.

 

But I would say they are more impressive than ps4 because of the missing 3Rd party support. Not as impressive as Wii though because that thing was a phenomenon.

Well, that was my opinion and this is yours and both are fine. 3rd party games were acknowledged too saying that only The Witcher III was the only really critical and saleswise success in that period that i can think of.  What i meant to say too is that Switch had more succesful games in the same period than PS4 and XBO. PS4/XBO had....Destiny, Watch Dogs, and the usual games per year, which by the way were nothing impressive those years. And like i said, PS4 or XBO didn't "have" 3rd party game for their own, they have to share the sales between them.

Switch is going to sell around 16M (maybe more if December surprises us) during 2018, I expect 2019 to be around 15-17M too, but after that, Switch will show how it can't compete with the library the PS4 had after year 3 or 4, and it prove my point on why PS4 was more impressive than Switch (the point being that Switch needed its best lineup ever to beat PS4 in USA while PS4 did not have any meaningful exclusive to the american audience until Uncharted 4 in 2016, and despite this the console is going to reach 40M sold in USA lifetime, thanks to longer legs).