God of War (PS4) nearing 20M sold, franchise cross 50M.

[DonFerrari]

AngryLittleAlchemist said:

src said:

The figures weren't wrong, they were literally reported by a personnel of Sony. It's just the figures were about 3 months off. 

"You also seem to misunderstand that software sales growth are a non-linear trend. The function x^1.5 and x^1.6 may stay close at the beginning, but grows in difference as x gets larger."

That's not true, and a bad assumption to make. Nothing in my original comment implies I think software sales are a linear trend. I was simply comparing two specific points in two different consoles, relative to their lifespan, so of course the comparison was linear. But I never commented on the trend being linear, in fact if I thought the trend was linear, why would I imply in my own comment that I think Playstation 4 will outsell Switch's software total ("Now, I don't think anyone expects the Switch's software total to be as good as Playstation 4's")? By a pretty large amount of software, might I add. 

Regardless, THANK YOU for correcting me on some things. I wasn't entirely sure with the comparison I made and now you've informed me of the correct data. Still, though, I think my original point stands that making a blank comparison between Switch's current software total and the software total PS4 has right now is disingenuous and lacks a lot of context (I put context into my reply, was just a little off in the dates). But you did a very good job of providing a lot of context in this post, so live and let live. 

Yes you either compare both at the same time with launch aligned either in time or HW sold, or you do for expected LT. To compare the total of PS4 now to Switch now doesn't make much of a sense unless if to say "Switch needs to sell this many HW and/or SW to catch up to PS4 and I think it will/won't be able do it".