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

[DonFerrari]

Mandalore76 said:

DonFerrari said:

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

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.

Sure thing, they were already questioning the previous 48 months.... and they could have released in 2016 as well but weren't able. Still that matches what I said prior that they try to release as early as possible instead of waiting for Xmas. If you can plan to have your swap on Holidays for safety on demand sure bonus points, but we have seem both PS4 and Switch sold out for 2 months on launch inside and outside holidays. So it more show that launch depends much more on inventory availability than Holidays.