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

[DonFerrari]

Mandalore76 said:

DonFerrari said:

Totally agree with you. But just for exercise pick the Switch launch+holiday versus PS4 launch+march and april and will be quite evident that PS4 didn't really benefit from holiday, it was supply constrained and would likely have sold the same number if was released outside of holiday, same for switch (due to lack of inventory) it could have sold even more on launch if more inventory was available and wouldn't sell more on holiday if the inventory was the same of the original launch.

Well, there were people on this site that claimed that Nintendo consoles are "only bought as Christmas presents for children".  If that was the case, a March release would have been a handicap, since not many people buy their high ticket holiday items 10 months in advance.  (I don't believe this at all mind you, and I have countered it whenever I have seen it mentioned)

We can't deny that Nintendo seems to have the biggest boost for Xmas and is more child friendly so good gift for Xmas, but yep Switch is doing great all around the year for anyone to make the claim that it is only sold in Holidays.

About the post of artificial constraints, I totally agree with you, it wasn't in purpose, It was just that Nintendo didn't correct project the sales (after all they were quite massive and unexpected by almost everyone).