According to Mat Piscatella "Next Gen consoles sales will not have a major effect on Switch sales"

[zorg1000]

The_Liquid_Laser said:

zorg1000 said:

Are you not aware of when GC/XB released? They launched in holiday 2001 so 2002 was their first year.

Again, you are confusing correlation with causation. 360 was far outpacing its predecessor so it makes no sense to say Wii was affecting its sales. PS3 launched at $599 and took a few years to get down to mass market price.

PS/XB consoles are direct competitors, they compete primarily for the 13-35 year old male that plays shooter, sports, racing, action games and they go back and forth trying to one up each other with online services and multimedia functions.

PS2 (157m)+XB (25m)=182 million

PS3 (77m)+360 (76m)=173 million

PS4 (~125m)+XBO (~50m)=175 million

For three generations, spanning ~20 years, these two have been fighting over basically the same subset of gamers and their sales rise/fall depending on the other.

Wii & Nintendo consoles in general play almost no part in PS/XB sales.

"Are you not aware of when GC/XB released? They launched in holiday 2001 so 2002 was their first year."

This is a good argument.  In fact, I like it so much that I basically made the same argument for Generation 7.  "It's normal for a console to increase in sales in it's second year after release."  You are arguing against me in Generation 7, but you are using my same type of reasoning for Generation 6.  Well, I like what you are saying about Generation 6.  I wish you would listen to your own argument and apply it to Generation 7.

Umm no, 2001 included 1.5 months for GC/XB so 2002 was their first full year.

2008 was the 3rd full for 360 and the 2nd full year for PS3/Wii.

These are not comparable situations in the slightest.

Your only argument is Wii peaked early while PS3/360 peaked late.