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killer7 on 03 February 2025
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XtremeBG said:
killer7 said:

Sorry my bad, but still considerably down. Yes in 2020 it started it outselling it launch allinged, but since 2019 Switch was ahead clearly. Covid sure did much for the Switch no doubt, but the Switch was sucessfull long before Covid even started. The strange thing is: Why PS4 and Xbox one/ PS5 and Xbox SeX/SS did not benefit from Covid?

First: PS4: If Nintendo (a much smaller company than Sony) is able to ship/ produce 28 million+ Switch systems, wich require LCD screens as well and are harder to produce than PS4 an already established plattform, why is Sony not able to ship more than 8,5 million PS4s? Yes the console was on its way out but 8,5 million is really low. And the system started to be down YoY in 2019, before Covid.

XboxOne: No further explaination needed!

Xbox Series: Same

PS5: The so called "supply castrained" myth i do not buy. Nobody can tell me that Sony was not able to ship more PS5s than Switch systems in 2021 (the year it started being down YoY- of course on a high level). After its peak in 2023 PS5 started being down YoY in 2024. Sony as a biggrr company than Nintendo should have been able producinge more to begin with.

As I already said, both PS4 and XB1 had boost. Not as big as the Switch, but still they had boost due to covid. You can go and see on any sales article here or on some of my comparisons what have been the numbers, or how the chart lines were almost as big as the holiday before that, or compare the sales YOY from the tables.

By the time XBSX and PS5 launched, the pandemic boost was nowhere to be found, since it was there in the months from March somewhere till the summer. Long before the next gen launched.

Yes. All plattformes had a boost. But while Xboxone was so small it did not effect anything, PS4 was not even able to be remotly close to last years numbers. A boost there was in fact! Yes here i am with you. But it did not prolong gen 8 and it went down faster than gen 7. (Xbox 360 2005- 2016/ PS3 2006- 2017-----> XboxOne 2013- 2020/ PS4 2013- 2022- if we go for active lifetime as of hardware production and shipment). So if anything, Covid shortened the generation, especially their hardware legs. Would it be different (longer/ shorter) without Covid? We will never know, but i highly doubt the cycle would have gone on much longer...