I wouldn't go crazy over the PS4 losing. The November deal was just too good, so it should have been expected for sales to go down in December a bit. As for the Switch - didn't Nintendo do the same with the Wii back in 2007 when they had stock problems? I think the Wii also had comparatively low November sales back then (due to stock) and then shot up at Christmas.

Usually when you look at US weekly sales graphs during the holidays they go way up for Black Friday week, then go down and then up again to around the same (or higher) level during Christmas week. But the Wii graph for 2007 didn't have that first high due to stock, if I remember correctly (sales graphs don't load for me anymore). Looks like the same happened with the Switch. But whatever, it's definitely amazing that we have two (3 in the US) competitive players in the market right now. Way more exciting than the last few years!

Just saw the tweet from Greenberg. Did the Switch win December or what?

Lots of people put XB1 as third, and Switch and PS4 as 1st or 2nd in the NPD Prediction thread. 

Well I'm surprised the XB1 came second. That's a good month for Xbox. Sony won't be too fussed though. They've taken precautions to not see sales dive going into this year.

PS4 being in third really isn't that surprising. It's November deals probably pushed some December sales into November, the XB1 was $199 for quite some time and Microsoft threw in a free copy of PUBG with XB1X purchases for like 2 weeks.

I also imagine that to be the case. But I'm just saying that a lot of people here seem to think Greenburg is either lying or distorting facts, as if it was impossible. Sony was pretty lazy for December in the US, so it's possible that it happened.

Not that it means doom and gloom to Sony, they are doing great and are up YoY. But it really show that MS had a killer December in the US, so kudos to them.

Why do MS have to do confusing announcements when it is about their X1 sales?

good grief, imagine saying over and over you don't care about sales, then celebrating coming second in one month in one country just because you outsold the PS4 there for the first time in over a year

embarrassing

Not too surprising tbh...that’s what a 199,- console, a new console model and especially a console selling timed exclusive (PUBG) can do in a market like the U.S..Worldwide is another story.
Don’t forget MS has won November’s and Decembers before. Nothing has changed.
Sony should’ve kept their 199,- price drop or at least 249,-.

Switch still waiting to fall off that cliff it seems... any day now.

But seriously proud of the Switch getting the top spot in a holiday month in it's first year against such tough competition. Nintendo have outdone themselves with this console. Hope the good success continues all round in the video game market.