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Who wins?

PS4 66 40.24%
 
NSW 84 51.22%
 
Tie 14 8.54%
 
Total:164
Barkley on 21 March 2018

Switch's strongest region is NA, while it isn't PS4's strongest region. Nintendo consoles also tend to sell fast, but for a shorter time.

Switch should win this comparison.

USA accounted for 32.7% of sales for the PS4 in 2015. Currently LTD USA accounts for 36.4% of sales for the Switch. So assuming the Switch ratio stays roughly the same throughout this year, Switch will need to sell 6.38m in the NPD's if it's to match PS4's 2015 global sales.

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Stuart23 on 21 March 2018

Gonna be a close race. Switch will probably lose march and win april and may. It's the holiday when things will be interesting.



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Matsku on 21 March 2018

I think the Switch will sell more than the Ps4 did in 2015 because of Smash Bros and Pokémon.



Normchacho on 21 March 2018
Stuart23 said:
Gonna be a close race. Switch will probably lose march and win april and may. It's the holiday when things will be interesting.

I think it's way more likely that the Switch wins March and loses April. God of War comes out in April. It's a big franchise especially in the U.S. and it just got great previews.



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Stuart23 on 21 March 2018
Normchacho said:
Stuart23 said:
Gonna be a close race. Switch will probably lose march and win april and may. It's the holiday when things will be interesting.

I think it's way more likely that the Switch wins March and loses April. God of War comes out in April. It's a big franchise especially in the U.S. and it just got great previews.

Oh sorry, I meant with that PS4 2015 vs NSW 2018. In this year yeah I also think PS4 will win april.



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Normchacho on 21 March 2018
Stuart23 said:
Normchacho said:

I think it's way more likely that the Switch wins March and loses April. God of War comes out in April. It's a big franchise especially in the U.S. and it just got great previews.

Oh sorry, I meant with that PS4 2015 vs NSW 2018. In this year yeah I also think PS4 will win april.

Oh duh haha my bad.



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VGPolyglot on 21 March 2018
zorg1000 said:
ryuzaki57 said:
Isn't the second year for PS4 2014?

2nd full year. It was only available for 1.5 months in 2013.

Switch released in March but its launch month offsets the lack of Jan/Feb.

2014 vs 2017 is year 1

2015 vs 2018 is year 2

2017 wasn't a full year for the Switch, though. It missed January and February, I know you state that but that is objectively not a full year.



Barkley on 21 March 2018
VGPolyglot said:
zorg1000 said:

2nd full year. It was only available for 1.5 months in 2013.

Switch released in March but its launch month offsets the lack of Jan/Feb.

2014 vs 2017 is year 1

2015 vs 2018 is year 2

2017 wasn't a full year for the Switch, though. It missed January and February, I know you state that but that is objectively not a full year.

It's not exactly right, but still starting from 10 months on the market for Switch and 14 months on the market for PS4 is closer than 10 months for Switch and 2 months for ps4, which is what 2014 (ps4) vs 2018 (switch) would be.



zorg1000 on 21 March 2018
VGPolyglot said:
zorg1000 said:

2nd full year. It was only available for 1.5 months in 2013.

Switch released in March but its launch month offsets the lack of Jan/Feb.

2014 vs 2017 is year 1

2015 vs 2018 is year 2

2017 wasn't a full year for the Switch, though. It missed January and February, I know you state that but that is objectively not a full year.

I know its techically not a full year but its 10 months where the debut month was the size of 3 regular months so its close enough.

Its about as close and fair as we can get for making yearly comparisons due to the different launch periods.



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peachbuggy on 21 March 2018
quickrick said:
RolStoppable said:

Don't you realize that 2018 is 53 weeks long?

what does that have to do with anything i'm saying?

He's saying the extra week in Jan will count for nothing in the long run which is kind of the point in this thread.



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