Norion said:
Shadow1980 said:
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Obviously, AC had a big impact in March. While there was probably somewhat of a pre-stimulus early-quarantine "better get it while the getting is good" rush (hence the uptick in PS4 & XBO sales in March after two months of big drops), the bulk of March's increases were clearly because of AC. April, however, showed a much, much smaller disparity in YoY changes. While AC likely had a residual effect in April (something at least a few major system-sellers have done in their second month), if the PS4 & XBO are any indication the bulk of the YoY increase in Switch sales in April was due to people getting their stimulus checks. While the YoY increases for the Switch tapered off more slowly than those of the PS4 & XBO, that could just as easily be chalked up to it being a younger, more popular, and thus better-stocked system. Once again, no game has ever had the kind of impact on hardware sales like what some are attributing to AC. Attributing something so unprecedented to a game while we are at the same time living in a time where we're dealing with something else unprecedented impacting the whole market is to me something that requires some damn good evidence. I've yet to see any good evidence that proves that the post-March boosts are primarily because of AC even though the PS4 & XBO had boosts that were clearly COVID-induced bumps. The Switch doesn't exist in a vacuum, and, especially given the nature of this year, has to be assessed in the broader context of the whole hardware market.
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Could it not be a mixture? Based on your data I think covid is the main reason but AC has caused a significant long term boost in Japan so maybe it could also be causing a long term boost elsewhere too though on a much smaller scale since AC is most popular in Japan. Either way whatever boost it did cause is probably over now outside of Japan or at least mostly over.
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The Covid bost is small fries, because affected all consoles. The Major drive is AC. The Peaked in early Covid,because of AC on Switch. It's a denial situation here. the change it's not good for analysis contextual situation. One videogame sales grow 100% is 500k to 1 million is different than a videogames sales grow 200% to 30k to 90k.
