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The_Liquid_Laser on 03 October 2018

PS4 selling a lot more software. Switch is selling a lot more hardware. Who is winning? They both are. One is an new console with a growing install base. You'd expect it to sell more hardware. The other is an old console with a larger install base. You'd expect PS4 to sell a lot of software even if hardware sales aren't on the same level as Switch.

Really nothing surprising happened this week other than a ton of titles were released. They actually pushed Splatoon 2 out of the top 10. When was the last time that happened?



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Kerotan on 03 October 2018
Miyamotoo said:
Switch HW numbers back to 40k and probably will stay above 40k for rest of year.
Sales of new Switch SW releases this week are meh, especially compared to same games on PS4.

Hey Rick, what do you think ps4 and switch will end up on in Japan at years end? 



Miyamotoo on 03 October 2018
Kerotan said:
Miyamotoo said:
Switch HW numbers back to 40k and probably will stay above 40k for rest of year.
Sales of new Switch SW releases this week are meh, especially compared to same games on PS4.

Hey Rick, what do you think ps4 and switch will end up on in Japan at years end? 

Switch is currently at 5.135m, PS4 at 7.135m, I expecting Switch will pass 7m at years end while PS4 will be somewhere around 7.5m, at year's end gap between them will probably be around 500k.



PortisheadBiscuit on 03 October 2018
Megiddo said:
JRPGfan said:
Theres barely a 2m gap between the PS4 and Switch now in japan.....

Its crazy the Switch closed that gap by like 600k this year alone, and with the holidays comeing up... hmm.

That's not crazy at all. If anything it's crazy that it has only closed by that much so far. The 2nd year of a Nintendo portable system should be slaughtering the 5th year of a Sony home console in Japan.  Reminder that Nintendo is expecting to ship 20 million Switch units this fiscal year. They are waaaaaaay off course in Japan to meet that with the fiscal year already half over.

It's also a $300 "portable" system



Kerotan on 03 October 2018
Miyamotoo said:
Kerotan said:

Hey Rick, what do you think ps4 and switch will end up on in Japan at years end? 

Switch is currently at 5.135m, PS4 at 7.135m, I expecting Switch will pass 7m at years end while PS4 will be somewhere around 7.5m, at year's end gap between them will probably be around 500k.

Still expecting it to fall off a cliff? :P

 

Yeah hopefully ps4 can end the year with a bigger user base 



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Megiddo on 03 October 2018
PortisheadBiscuit said:
Megiddo said:

That's not crazy at all. If anything it's crazy that it has only closed by that much so far. The 2nd year of a Nintendo portable system should be slaughtering the 5th year of a Sony home console in Japan.  Reminder that Nintendo is expecting to ship 20 million Switch units this fiscal year. They are waaaaaaay off course in Japan to meet that with the fiscal year already half over.

It's also a $300 "portable" system

That didn't seem to phase Nintendo when they projected 20 million units, so I'm not sure why you think that's notable?



PwerlvlAmy on 03 October 2018

Switch domination this week again too. Gonna be interesting to see the effect of Mario Party or Starlink. It will most likely be very minimal though.



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Bofferbrauer2 on 03 October 2018
Kerotan said:
Miyamotoo said:

Switch is currently at 5.135m, PS4 at 7.135m, I expecting Switch will pass 7m at years end while PS4 will be somewhere around 7.5m, at year's end gap between them will probably be around 500k.

Still expecting it to fall off a cliff? :P

 

Yeah hopefully ps4 can end the year with a bigger user base 

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Miyamotoo on 03 October 2018
Mnementh said:
nero said:

Healthy numbers all around. Both above baseline

Yeah, after the last two disappointing weeks they're both up again above their resective baselines (~20K/40K). But this week saw a number of mid-level releases, so that explains it. Does the rest of the year has consistent releases of at least decent software, so they both can keep up?

Anyways, PS4 version of Musou sold 4 times as much as Switch version. For FIFA it was nearly four times the sales. Anyone knows how well the Switch release of Dragon Ball Fighters hold up with this number? Valkyria Chronicles sold 10 times as much at the PS4 first week. But even then, VC4 on PS4 is still disappointing compared with previous entries. This makes me sad, as this games is quite good. I hope for better sales in the West. The World ends with you sold initially 80K in opening week on the DS, so 14K for a remake 10 years later seems OKish.

-PS4 has games like RDR2, CoD, AC Odyssey, BFV, Fallout 76, Just Cause 4 that are not big like they are in West but they can be considered for midsized games, and also price cut for PS4 Pro model.

-Switch in two days have launch of Super Mario Party, and in rest of October game like Mega Man 11, Dark Souls Remastered, Crash Bandicoot, Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, so it should keep up in October. November and December are totaly difrent story, on 15. November we launch of Pokemon Lets Go, launch of Pokemon Lets Go bundles and launch of Smash Bros. Ultimate, in December we have launch of Smash Bros. Ultimate and Dragon Quest Builders 2 (that also comes to PS4), so Switch will kill in November and December espacily from 15. November, in last 6 weeks of week I dont expecting not single one week that will be below 200k.



Miyamotoo on 03 October 2018
Megiddo said:
PortisheadBiscuit said:

It's also a $300 "portable" system

That didn't seem to phase Nintendo when they projected 20 million units, so I'm not sure why you think that's notable?

When they projected those 20m units they biggest bet was on calendar Q4 because holiday season in combination with Pokemon Lets Go and Smash Bros. Ultimate (easily two of their biggest games this year), so there is no reason to act like those games were already out and like holiday season is already over and they are way off with those projected 20m.