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ArchangelMadzz on 19 August 2017
Green098 said:
ArchangelMadzz said:

??

People seriously believe the Switch will outsell PS4? 

Saying that the Switch will 100% outsell the PS4 with no proof or agruement to back it up is a pretty laughable claim, but so is the other way around. 

I mean it can, but it's a matter of will it not can it, which is why it's wrong to say either it will or won't when it hasn't even been on the market for one year.

I do agree with you though, to just say a statement like that without anything to back it up or agrue for it is kinda trolling. I don't think it will but that still doesn't it won't. All I know it's got a better shot than the Xbox One did, which is also thanks to a strong Japanese market. But saying the Switch will just outright outsell the PS4 like that is a poorly made statement, one that the facts at the minute have PS4 in the favouring side.

I've seen people get modded for less if the assumption is a baiting post. 

It can on the basis that anything can happy. Xbox One still CAN outsell PS4 worldwide but it just wont. Not that I can prove that it wont but any reasonable thinking brain will determine that it wont. And with Switch it's early but I think if you had to go gun to head if you're wrong you die, we'd all say PS4 beats switch. 



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meOwMiXmUnCHiEZz on 19 August 2017

some people think the ps4 will outsell the ps2 and i think thats laughable, but i dont accuse them of trolling



Naum on 19 August 2017

We are on vgchartz...we gonna have least 5 people... And always The same 5 people that Will find a way to explain The most stupid reason ever to support their agenda



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Tridrakious on 19 August 2017

It will do just fine. I had my doubts and thought Nintendo wouldn't actually be able to hit deadlines on the software front, but they have.

Now they just need to get manufacturing under control.



Pyro as Bill on 19 August 2017
Ali_16x said:
meOwMiXmUnCHiEZz said:
the switch is going to outsell the ps4, so unless the ps4 fails the switch definitely will not fail.

lmao, now that's just delusion, even more so than what the OP is talking about (Not calling the OP delusional, just people that think the Switch will fail, though it depends on what you think is a failure, it will 100% sell more than the Wii U but I'm not sure it'll outsell the 3DS)

There is no way in hell that the Swtich will outsell the PS4, I doubt it'll outsell the PS3.

I'll take that bet. Outselling PS3 shouldn't be hard and if PS4 only does ~120m Switch can beat it.



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friendlyfamine on 19 August 2017

Switch outselling PS4 is a delusion. 3DS sales have demonstrated that Pokemon clearly isn't enough when the competition has the likes of GTA, FIFA and COD which counter it. Also, I digress that conceptually, the Switch being a handheld ultimately grants success as it is in the bloodline of those. A lot of the success of the Game Boy, DS and eventually the 3DS came from their affordability. The Switch isn't benefiting from that factor, so we'll have to see how it holds on its own.



StarDoor on 19 August 2017
friendlyfamine said:

Switch outselling PS4 is a delusion. 3DS sales have demonstrated that Pokemon clearly isn't enough when the competition has the likes of GTA, FIFA and COD which counter it. Also, I digress that conceptually, the Switch being a handheld ultimately grants success as it is in the bloodline of those. A lot of the success of the Game Boy, DS and eventually the 3DS came from their affordability. The Switch isn't benefiting from that factor, so we'll have to see how it holds on its own.

That doesn't really hold up when the Switch is selling better at $300 than the 3DS ever did even at $170.



curl-6 on 19 August 2017
Pyro as Bill said:
Ali_16x said:

lmao, now that's just delusion, even more so than what the OP is talking about (Not calling the OP delusional, just people that think the Switch will fail, though it depends on what you think is a failure, it will 100% sell more than the Wii U but I'm not sure it'll outsell the 3DS)

There is no way in hell that the Swtich will outsell the PS4, I doubt it'll outsell the PS3.

I'll take that bet. Outselling PS3 shouldn't be hard and if PS4 only does ~120m Switch can beat it.

I'd say if Nintendo plays their cards right, (price cuts, multiple hardware revisions, consistent stream of desirable software) Switch has a good chance of outselling PS3.



friendlyfamine on 19 August 2017

StarDoor said:

That doesn't really hold up when the Switch is selling better at $300 than the 3DS ever did even at $170.

With how much months of data? The 3DS had steadily maintained high sales 4 years (52 mil). There's no proof that the Switch will achieve that same feat. You can't be certain that the Switch will outsell the 3DS, otherwise, that is a delusion. Right now, the Switch is obviously doing well in its early months. But there is no evidence that will be maintained. Right now, the only killer future app is Pokemon, and we don't even know if that's 2018. 



StarDoor on 19 August 2017
friendlyfamine said:

StarDoor said:

That doesn't really hold up when the Switch is selling better at $300 than the 3DS ever did even at $170.

With how much months of data? The 3DS had steadily maintained high sales 4 years (52 mil). There's no proof that the Switch will achieve that same feat. You can't be certain that the Switch will outsell the 3DS, otherwise, that is a delusion. Right now, the Switch is obviously doing well in its early months. But there is no evidence that will be maintained. Right now, the only killer future app is Pokemon, and we don't even know if that's 2018. 

There's a difference between being certain that the Switch will outsell the 3DS, and merely recognizing that the factors that influence the success of a console are stronger for the Switch than they were for the 3DS. But since you brought it up, which games were "killer apps" for the 3DS?