Mar1217 said:
We're already in the Switch 5th year on the market. Timeframe will be similar. (I don't know the exact details myself) |
"in it's 5th year" & "5 years" are not the same though.
If something "takes 5 years" it means it happened on or after the 5th "birthday"... whereas the 5th year of something starts immediately after it's 4th birthday.
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As for the actual time taken: PS2 shipped 100 million by the end of November 2005, which was 5 years & 8 months after initial launch in Japan, & just over 5 years after worldwide launch (US launch in Oct 2000 & EU launch was Nov 2000)
PS4 technically got to 100 million shipped in about the same time (end of June 2019 is 5y8m after launch) but regional launches were closer together.
Switch will surpass 100 million shipped during this years holiday quarter, we won't know exactly when unless Nintendo announces it, but based on current shipment total as of March 31st (84.59m) & last years Q1 & Q2 sales (12.53m) it should be >97m by end of September so it will most likely be in October/November, which will be 4 years & 7 or 8 months.
About 1 year quicker than the PS4 to the 100m mark, direct comparison with PS2 is tricky as the least important region (Japan) launched so much earlier, but it will be at least 6m quicker than PS2.
