Hardware prices going up for everyone, PlayStation killing physical discs, layoffs, and for the most part hardware sales this generation falling further behind the last generation. All the missteps with Xbox and even PlayStation with its failed live service push causing more popular single player games taking longer.
Switch 2 has been off to an amazing start, but with the price increase not far away I expect sales to slow a bit. It will still sell well, but not quite as good as it could have.
7th generation had 3 consoles and 2 handhelds that all performed well. Wii selling over 100M, PS3 and X360 selling neck and neck, DS nearly topping the PS2, even PSP selling well.
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