Will the Nintendo Switch overtake the PS4 in terms of sales worldwide?

[hunter_alien]

Slownenberg said:

hunter_alien said:

Of course, only time will tell how this will all play out, but it sure reminds me of the hype the Wii had, and how many people were expecting it to easily break the 200 million mark. 

That doesn't make sense, given the context. Wii had like 3 years of insane sales because of its blue ocean strategy - meaning tens of millions of systems were bought by non-gamers, who then only bought a few titles, and that non-gamer market lost interest after a few years once motion controls were no longer some flashy novel thing, so the Wii's sales dropped pretty dramatically at that point, as the PS360 finally got down to reasonable prices. That isn't remotely what is going on today with the Switch. Wii and Switch are not comparable at all, any glance at game sales will tell you as much.

Yeah, that's true, just wanted to point out the idea, that how drastically can things change in 2 years time for any system. While this was by no means and apples-to-apples comparison it does show how quickly sales trends can fluctuate even in one generation.