Sony no longer reporting PS4 shipments, Final Official total 117.00m

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curl-6 said:

padib said:

The PS brand went from 20+M to around 10M due to Nintendo domination in Japan. Due to this dominance, Sony cannot regain this 10M back. This is Nintendo's work. I have shown the numbers and can show more I did the study. What numbers do you want to see?

Again though, that drop happened long before the Switch, in one country. On a global scale, PS4's sales didn't plummet in parallel with the arrival and rise of the Switch, nor did PS4's dominance at the time of Switch's release stop it selling strongly out of the gate.

The two sold well side by side; to go back to my original point, there's nothing to suggest PS5 and Switch can't do the same, and in fact they are doing just that right now.

The problem with this logic is if you try applying it to the PS3 and XBox360.  Your logic is saying that they didn't compete.  They both sold very similarly.  Each took a few years to really get going and then both had their sales peak during the latter years and had good sales for a long time.  The release of the PS3 didn't instantly make the XBox360 go down.  Your logic is saying that they didn't compete.

However, if you compare lifetime sales of PS2+XBox and PS3+XBox360, then they are pretty similar numbers with the XBox getting a much larger % share than the OG XBox got.  It is clear PS3 and XBox360 are competing if you compare lifetime sales but it doesn't look that way if you break things down week by week or even year by year.  That's how console competition works.  You fully see the competition once you get near the lifetime sales of each system, but it's not so obvious on a year by year basis.