| colafitte said: I'm not talking about having a peak year in year 3 or 4 in USA (which should have been normal considering what happened with PS1, PS2 and PS3). I'm saying that PS4 and XBO were ahead compared to last gen just before Switch launched and now they're going to end behind, when that is not going to happen in any other place not called Japan, another country/region where Switch has performed much better than PS4 in the last year or two. *according to VGC data of course. |
Xbox 360 + PS3 numbers in the USA were inflated by the success of Kinect. You can see just how popular it was in North America compared to everywhere else:
http://www.vgchartz.com/game/45608/kinect-adventures/sales
The effect is easily observable in its annual sales from 2010 onward: (US, Xbox 360 is the top line, PS3 is the bottom one)
Compare that to Europe, where Kinect wasn't nearly as popular: (PS3 is the top line, Xbox 360 is the bottom line)
In contrast to the 360, PS4 and Xbox One haven't done anything to appeal outside of their typical third-party, AAA gaming audience. That's why you see a decline for Gen 8 in the US. It has nothing to do with Switch stealing sales from them.
Also, PS4 was flat between 2016, 2017, and 2018 in both the US and Japan, so the idea that it's declining because of the Switch makes no sense to begin with.
