Global Hardware 26 January 2019 (RE2 Week)

[MasonADC]

colafitte said:

Now i see that Switch has been adjusted down to 16'3M in 2018 and 29'5M sold lifetime (by the end of the year). So now i'm completely spot on what i expected back in December for Switch. Even after adjustments were made, i knew there was needed even more, because if Switch was going to sell more than 1M in January, it was really difficult to believe Switch was at 30'8 or 30'9M by the end of the month after Nitendo saying "surpassed 30M by end of January" but i didn't want to nitpick or insist anymore because the adjustment at least was more closer now to reality, but new numbers are still apreciated by my part.

PS4 with 18'0M sold in 2018, won, by a confortable margin to Switch with 16'3M, something that most people did not expected at all 12 months ago. And now we are going to be in a similar situation again in 2019, with people expecting too much for Switch and too little for PS4. Knowing Switch sold to consumers around 13'2M in 2017 and 16'3M in 2018, i'm pretty confident Switch is going to be around 17'5M and PS4 is probably going to be around 16M, more or less (it depends if price cuts are made).

What i'm pretty sure is that we are going to hear a lot during first half of the year how hardware sales are disappointing for each console, specially in NPD reports. Doom and gloom is coming (like every 5 or 6 years....).

The switch actually has games from June to the end of the year this year. I don’t think anyone expecting more than 17.5 million is expecting too much