| DroidKnight said: The Nintendo Switch 2 may have already passed the PS5 for the year. Stock supply will be the determining factor for the end year results. As far as the holidays are concerned, Switch 2 will be hottest ticket item. The PS5 has been out long enough to have lost most of its sizzle. |
It's funny just how sure many people were early on in this thread that the PS5 would have this competition in the bag, myself included... when we thought GTA6 was releasing this year.
However, Nintendo's fiscal estimate of 15m continued the majority thinking that there just couldn't be enough Switch 2s to ship the amount needed to topple the PS5 by the end of the calendar year, but as Rol pointed out, Nintendo likely based this conservative prediction on ensuring investors that Switch 2 would have at least enough to best the original Switch's year one performance. Then came Sony's report of 2.8m PS5's for calendar Q1, giving added weight to the idea that the two systems could be about even after factoring in PS5's Q2. Still, some believed that there was just no way Switch would have a strong enough launch for that.
The final straw, and biggest eye-opener, came when Nintendo announced the 3.5m figure for the first four days, and that it's quite likely that Nintendo did ship enough Switch 2s by the end of June to nullify any lead that the PS5 would have had for the first half of the year. And with Switch 2 selling out steadily in the US and so swiftly in Japan, it's looking probable that it will indeed be Nintendo being able to keep up with supply that will decide this.
