Will PS5 and Series X have a bigger opening than Switch?

[Mandalore76]

DonFerrari said:

ArchangelMadzz said:

Considering its going to be out for like 8 weeks I don't know about supply constraints. PS4 sold 4.2 million from launch to end of year. 

They're making less PS5's for launch last I heard and its going to definitely cost more. So we'll see. 

Latest rumor have that Sony upped orders from 5M to 10M for holidays (could be until March 2021 though).

Mandalore76 said:

Because the Wii U was discontinued in January 2017.  Nintendo wasn't going to go 10 months without a home console in the retail space.  Nintendo was getting such bad press at the time, "Nintendo should go 3rd Party", that they had to launch a new console ASAP.  And that's what they did.

If they really thought that Switch would do so much better if they waited for holiday them they wouldn't discontinue WiiU in January. They launching in March paid off.

Here's the Wii U weekly sales from it's last holiday period (2016) into it's worldwide discontinuation on January 31st 2017.  Tell me that Nintendo should have rode this out for 10 more months:

Week Ending 11/26/2016 (Black Friday)

WiiU

41,938

(+128%)

13,318,699

Week Ending 12/3/2016

WiiU

22,559

(-46%)

13,341,258

Week Ending 12/10/2016

WiiU

24,020

(+6%)

13,365,278

Week Ending 12/17/2016

WiiU

26,954

(+12%)

13,392,232

Week Ending 12/24/2016 (week before Christmas)

WiiU

29,153

(+8%)

13,421,385

Week Ending 12/31/2016

WiiU

13,503

(-54%)

13,434,888

Week Ending 1/7/2017

WiiU

9,131

(-32%)

13,444,019

Week Ending 1/14/2017

WiiU

5,545

(-39%)

13,449,564

Week Ending 1/21/2017

WiiU

4,673

(-16%)

13,454,237

Week Ending 1/28/2017

WiiU

4,497

(-4%)

13,458,734

When investors would have been questioning, what are you going to do about your home console selling 4,000 units per week?  I don't think "We're waiting for Christmas 10 months from now" would be considered a valid answer.