PS4/XBO/NS - 2018 vs. 2019 - Week 52 Numbers Added; Final 2019 Totals

[ArchangelMadzz]

SpokenTruth said:

ArchangelMadzz said:
Haven't been checking this but didn't expect Ps4's 2018 to be 1 million higher than Switches 2019.

PS4 had an amazing 2018.  Only 1 week below 200k and even that was 199,103.  Few consoles have ever done that (Wii, PS2, GBA and DS are the only ones I can image having done it..unless the X360 also did it with Kinect).

However, Nintendo has always been a second half sales player whereas Sony tends to be much more all year rounded.  While it looks surprising, it's actually not when you look at the year long trends of the console makers every year.

Look at 2018 first half for both:

PS4 - 7,016,919
Switch - 4,898,946

Now look at the second half of 2018 for both:

PS4 - 10,983,848
Switch - 11,587,952

So despite the 2.1 million deficit at the half way mark, Switch finished 600k ahead in the second half. So it may seem odd that PS4 H1 2018 is a million higher than Switch H1 2019, it's not beyond expected figures given how they sell across both halves of the year.

That's a cool interesting point. If it holds the same percentage increase then H2 2019 will sell 2.365 times more in H2 giving a total of 20.4 million sold for 2019. Which would give it a 2.4 million lead. So we'll see if that trend continues in the same way. The Switch should win, it's just without doing background it was interesting to see PS4 has a million lead in it's 5th year over Switch this year. 

Bofferbrauer2 said:

ArchangelMadzz said:

Will be interesting to see how it all leans up in the end as they've got a 1 million deficit to overcome. But still good on PS4 year 5 being that much in front of Switch year 3 half way through the year.

While the PS4 is in front, unless the announcement of the Switch Lite throws a wrench into the Switch's sales wheels until it's release, The advantage should start to shrink now over the course of summer, and then shrink rapidly/grow in favor of the Switch once the Lite is released.

Like SpokenTruth already explained, 2H from Nintendo beat the one of the PS4. Nintendo being traditionally dtrong during the holiday season coupled with the 1-2 punch of Pokemon Let's go and Smash Ultimate certainly helped to that, but it wasn't the only factor. Nintendo already announced back then that during Summer the sales went up, so the rise came from across the entire 2H last year. With what has been announced to come this July and then starting August 30, there will be a similar push this year throughout summer, and then Lite, Link's Awakening and Pokemon will push it into overdrive.

Do you think Switch Lite would be tallied up with Switch sales? It's not as if they're just selling the switch controller without the dock. It doesn't support any output to a TV, no joycons etc, so it's a dedicated handheld device that will over time I assume replace the 3DS. 

It makes no meaningful difference either way but interesting to see if people would add those sales to the Switch.