When will the switch outsell the ps4?

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Shaunodon said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

When this thread was made Sony still had the possibility to make it never happen and allow PS4 to outsell NS lifetime.
But now NS took off at ludicrous speed and at the same time Sony hasn't made yet the price cut PS4 really needed to keep on selling enough, so sales plummeted.
Sony could cut price now, but at this point most probably it could just delay the moment NS will outsell PS4. Unless Ninty stop making it too early, NS should reach PS4 not later than 2024.

At the current point of time we still don't know the sales potential or longevity of Switch, yet it's not crazy to think it could get within reach, if not outright match the highest selling systems ever. We can't even say without some reasonable doubt that 2020 will be it's peak sales year.

Are you implying the same sales potential was feasible for PS4 if Sony wanted it, even though it's currently falling further behind the Switch launch-aligned? Even though the Switch is still yet to have a single price cut?

At the beginning of last year current NS yearly peak was unthinkable, although already predicted to be very high, while at the same time PS4 sales hadn't plummeted yet, and on top of this Sony is well known to give Playstations extremely long lifecycles, quite longer than most Ninty ones, except Super NES (and NES in Japan), with many years of sales also after next gen launch, so keeping the lead was still possible even never reaching NS yearly peak. Now not anymore, even if it will be supported for another 3 or even 4 years, Sony just burnt the last possible big Xmas sales keeping a price that doesn't make sense anymore for last gen consoles place in the market after latest gen launch, and definitively put PS4 in a marginal sunset boulevard. Even if a dramatic price cut were to give PS4 a bigger Xmas 2021 than 2020 underwhelming one, it won't be enough to make up for it, the gaussian-like descending sales curve will remain the same, but with the BF & Xmas 2020 part chopped below the same period of 2021.