Your sales expectations for 2020

[Norion]

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Norion said:

Almost everyone was significantly off with the Switch but considering the circumstances that is very understandable. I certainly never expected it to be up so much compared to 2019 and have the second biggest year ever for a console.

I think covid might not have changed overall sales for the PS4 and Xbox One much and instead just changed when they happened. Both systems sold more in the March-May period than the October-December period which is insane and probably unprecedented. What likely happened is a lot of consoles that would've gotten sold during the holiday and in general second half of the year got sold in the first half of the year which combined with covid straining manufacturing causing Sony and Microsoft to slow down production of the old consoles a lot faster left the Switch the only system to get a big overall boost due to the pandemic.

I agree, and that's also why sales this Christmas season is so damn low - people bought their consoles and games beforehand this year around.

Ah I thought you were thinking PS4 did like a million more than it otherwise would've. That could've impacted Switch too but less so than the others so aside from it causing their games to be delayed Nintendo got lucky it happened right as their very successful console was entering its peak period.