It all depends how long Nintendo supports the Switch after Switch 2 comes out. It looks like Switch will be easily ahead of PS4 through 6 years, but PS4 is having quite a good year this year considering it is about to be replaced. By year 7 I'm sure Switch will be selling less than PS4 is this year. Then it comes down to how much they sell after they are replaced as to whether PS4 can pass it when their timelines are matched up. Ninty systems tend to die out pretty quickly once replaced while Playstations sell for years after being replaced. I wouldn't be surprised if PS4's sales next year match the entirety of Switch sales after Switch 2 comes out. My gut tells me because of this PS4 will end up maybe like 5 million ahead of Switch, maybe 130+ to 125+ million. But we also have to remember Switch hasn't even gotten a price cut and its sales are way hotter than PS4's ever were.
It wouldn't at all surprise me if Switch built up too large a lead this year and next year in their lined up timelines for PS4 to ever catch up, but I do expect PS4 to sell many millions more than Switch after they are each replaced, so it's just as likely in years 7, 8, 9 Switch is selling multiple millions fewer systems per year than PS4 and doesn't quite catch it. It'll be close and could go either way but because of Playstation's well known longevity and how well it seems like it is going to do this year I'm gonna give the slight edge to PS4 but basically it's gonna be like PS3/360, there's gonna be a small difference that doesn't really matter, they'll both have done about as well as each other.
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