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Mandalore76 on 23 January 2019
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CrazyGPU said:
Mandalore76 said:

You realize that Black Friday, where the PS4 gets a huge amount of sales from, is a Christmas Shopping holiday right?  Also, Switch had a huge launch in March 2017, a non-typical shopping period.  By your logic, PS4 launched in November of it's release year, because it was counting on Christmas purchases, which must only be for kids according to you.  Because adults don't ever give each other Christmas presents.  Not ever.

Ps4 almost continuosly sold more than switch outside christmas sales. Sum up all december for switch and compare to the rest of the year. Also Black friday is not Christmas. You can't deny numbers. I Think more kids get presents but that doesn't mean that adults can get some. Don't put words that I didn't write.

Actually it is.  By definition, Black Friday is the start of the Christmas shopping season:  "The day after Thanksgiving has been regarded as the beginning of America's Christmas shopping season since 1952. 

The day after Thanksgiving as the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season may be linked together with the idea of Santa Claus parades. Parades celebrating Thanksgiving often include an appearance by Santa at the end of the parade, with the idea that 'Santa has arrived' or 'Santa is just around the corner' because Christmas is always the next major holiday following Thanksgiving.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many Santa or Thanksgiving Day parades were sponsored by department stores. These included the Toronto Santa Claus Parade, in Canada, sponsored by Eaton's, and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade sponsored by Macy's. Department stores would use the parades to launch a big advertising push. Eventually, it just became an unwritten rule that no store would try doing Christmas advertising before the parade was over. Therefore, the day after Thanksgiving became the day when the shopping season officially started."

The vast majority of people shopping on Black Friday are shopping to save money on gifts they are going to give people for Christmas.