Switch is selling better than PS4, PS2, PS1, PS3, X360 launch aligned

[DonFerrari]

thismeintiel said:

twintail said:
good sales, but unless it gets well ahead of the PS4 holiday spike there, it will just fall under the PS4, and keep swinging back up and down.

Yeah, the PS4 will definitely be on top again. And my guess is within a couple of years it will remain so.

Still, great performance from the Switch. Much better than a lot of us predicted.

Yep Switch is doing fantastic. Much better than most predictions. Now it is just a matter of how far it will go on pushing its LTD higher.

Jumpin said:
The Playstation was a sleeper hit. While in retrospect, a lot of people play off the "Devastating move to launch the console cheaper than Saturn as it stole Sega's thunder." That's not accurate. Even after that move, the Playstation was still almost invisible and irrelevant for another 1-2 years. Resident Evil is the first game I recall that was an eye opener.

Yes, the price of the Saturn killed it, but the launch price of the Playstation had NOTHING to do with Sega's downfall (again, because no one gave a crap about it). Basically, when the Playstation really began to take off, the N64 was the console to defeat. Lucky for Sony, N64 games cost 2-3 times as much. While Nintendo was going on about the amazing 4 games available on the console, Sony was saying "Or you could get ours which now has over 200 games, including Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, Crash, and Twisted Metal; and upcoming later Wild Arms, Final Fantasy 7, and Resident Evil 2.

Final Fantasy 7 was what really made PS1 explode. That is one of the few real system sellers out there.