usa: "PS4 has already sold more units this week > the last several months combined"

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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.

Europe:

X360+PS3: around 61M
PS4+XBO: Already at 55M, they probably will end around 65-70M margin

Others:

X360+PS3: 21'5M
PS4+XBO: Already at 23M, they probably will end around 30M

*according to VGC data of course.

I don't know guys..., but Japan and US sales both have seen PS4 going down quickly and both have seen Switch going up quickly. If you consider that a coincidence..., well, we agree to disagree then.

I already addressed this, PS3/360 had slow starts and late peaks while PS4/XBO had stronger starts and earlier peaks. If Switch is the cause than we should have seen PS4/XBO display large YoY drops in 2017/2018 but they didnt.

As for your regional breakdown, Japan is a market in decline, it has little to do with Switch taking away from the others.

7th gen

PS3+360+Wii-~25 million

DS+PSP-~53 million

8th gen

PS4+XBO+Wii U-~12 million

3DS+Vita-~31 million

Saying that Switch is the cause of PS4 decline is ignoring so many different things.

Now for Europe & RotW, places like Eastern Europe, Latin America, Middle East, Southeast Asia, etc are what we call "emerging/developing markets" which means they have growing economies and growing consumer populations.