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Norion on 28 February 2025
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firebush03 said:
Norion said:

With the first sub 40k week in over half a year the impact of the Switch 2 continues and it fell behind last year in February or March as I expected. It'll still sell really well for at least the next several weeks though with it potentially getting a bit of a boost next week and the impact probably not increasing more till some time after the big April Direct.

And ouch on the PS5 declining the week before Wilds releases and despite having a new release at number 1. The PS4 increased the week before Worlds launched so that's not a good sign. It got a boost of 90k the week that released so the same as that would have the PS5 reach 100k but considering the very different circumstances to then it's safe to say the boost won't be that big but 50-70k seems doable. Also I wonder if this could be the last time the PS4 has a game chart in the top 2. That happening despite it being 11 years old is kinda wild.

(wasn't NSW below 40k the prev wk as well?) also, not directed towards you Curl, but it is interesting how revealing the successor would not impact sales figures is all the sudden being proven wrong. Idk why ppl were so resistant to this concept? Revealing a successor will slash-and-burn predecessor figures...that's almost always been the case. Didn't happen for 3DS->NSW nor GBA->DS, but that's because Nintendo didn't market them as successors, but rather third pillars.

Nah it just barely did 40k last week, the previous week is in the OP and Shaowlink93 always posts a comparison to all previous weeks and years of the Switch in these threads. 

For the resistance it's cause a portion of the people wanting the Switch to beat the PS2 and in general sell as much as possible are being irrational with there being ones who seem to genuinely think that Switch sales somehow won't heavily decline after the Switch 2 releases which is of course absurd but every group has its share of people saying absurd things, most aren't doing that.

Last edited by Norion - on 28 February 2025