Switch 2 Sales Predictions: Next PS2 or Wii U Disaster?

[XtremeBG]

killer7 said:

PS4 was considerably down in 2019 from 2018 and that was before Covid. The pandemic only strenghtend that trend. If the Switch benefitted from Covid, why not PS4? I mean the PS4 sold what? Around 5 million in 2020?! No one can tell me that Sony was not able to produce more, Covid or not. Why was Nintendo able to produce 28 million Switch systems at the same time despite it needing more components like the LCD screen? And Nintendo is a way smaller company ghan Sony. Sony wanted to move on quite fast that also shows PS4s discontinuation in march 2022... Xbox one was axed as early as the end of 2020 shortly after the XSX and the XSS launched.

I agree with everything. But what I started discussing was about launch aligned since you wrote it that way. PS4 and XB1 too benefited but they were about to be replaced so they didnt had so much potential for growth in 2020 as the Switch. PS4 sold 8.5M in 2020 and 14M in 2019. Switch started outselling it from 2019 onwards, but if we launch or holiday aligned it then 2020, since in 2019 it was more of a tie until the holidays. If we dont aligned it then the Switch started beating the PS4 from 2019 onwards

Last edited by XtremeBG - on 01 February 2025