Bofferbrauer2 said:
This post lacks context, and thus leads you to wrong conclusions.
Switch is trailing the 3DS in Japan... but the advantage of the 3DS is shrinking fast, as the latter built it's advantage on a huge pricecut and a new model, and those effects are already over and 3DS weekly sales dropping down hard while the Switch is gaining new heights and reaching new horizons. Switch will overtake the 3DS launch aligned next year, as this year is the last one the 3DS had somewhat decent sales in Japan (~3.1M), which should be barely enough to keep the Switch at bay with the lead it had built up in the past. But next year the 3DS stands no chance as the sales drop down to 2.1M, less than the Switch sold Year-to-date.
Switch is also a global console. You might be surprised, but if you go to Charts in the header and look up Platform Totals, you'll find that the Switch is already on the 9th spot there. While the PS4 will most probably win this category over the Switch, the lead should end up being less than 5M and is more than cancelled out bei either North America or Japan.
This leaves us with Europe, and the PS4 will need to build it's lead there. But the Switch, while not nearly selling as well as the PS4 over there, is still doing quite decent and should sell at least as well as the PS3 or Wii did.
All this means that the advantage in Europe will be about 20M (give or take) and up to 5M in RoW. And 25M should be manageable with US and Japan unless the Switch crashes down like the Wii did, but the reasons why the Wii crashed are not given for the Switch.
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