Lawlight said:
StarDoor said:
Right, because consoles sell the most in their first year on the market. That's why PS4 sold the most in 2014 and has only declined since. It's not like PS4 is selling faster in 2017 than in any previous year or anything.
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That's not what I said but on a month-to-month basis, surely a newer console is expected to outsell a console that's 3.5 years old. Your comparison with the PS4's 2014 kinda fails because, in 2014, the PS4 was outselling the older systems.
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Being out for 3.5 years doesn't make it an "older system", that makes it a system that is at its peak in terms of sales. In 2014, PS4 was outselling consoles that had released 7 years prior and had declined significantly from their peaks. A system's first year is nearly always worse than the following years, so if Switch's first year can match PS4's best year, then Switch's best year can be much better than PS4's.
Let's see how long it takes for consoles to have a worse year than their first year:
DS:
2.6 million
5.1 million
8.8 million
10.2 million
10.4 million
8.4 million
3.6 million
1.9 million (8th year)
PSP:
2.9 million
3.6 million
3.8 million
2.4 million (4th year)
X360:
3.8 million
4.4 million
4.9 million
4.8 million
7.0 million
7.7 million
6.3 million
3.4 million (8th year)
PS3:
2.5 million
3.5 million
4.2 million
4.7 million
4.5 million
3.5 million
2.2 million (7th year)
Wii:
6.4 million
9.8 million
9.0 million
7.4 million
4.9 million (5th year)
I can't believe that I have to explain the concept of a "peak year" to someone. How do you post so much on VGChartz and still not know this?