Why are Nintendo Switch sales peaking much later than other Nintendo consoles?

[IcaroRibeiro]

Dulfite said:

IcaroRibeiro said:

I thought that I was the only one who always get confused with this narrative of increasing game spending. Overall Covid has hurted the income of majority of families so I don't see how people getting less money exactly relates with higher spending in games

I'm waiting for some report of overall increase in console spending for 2020 to give this argument any sort of credibility

Well there is some evidence that suggests when people can't spend large amounts of money on big purchases (vacations, Disney world, new Mohab Keep Wrangler, etc.) they are more likely to spend it on smaller purchases. I looked into the great recession and the box office did extremely well back then, for example, despite so many other parts of the economy tanking. People like cheap escapism when they can't afford the expensive stuff.

Yes, but is there any data to support a massive increase in consume of console games last year? Overall gaming market gets bigger every year, was last year a year of massive outlier growth as he implied? Or was a year of an standard growth like every "normal" year?