So Sony sold more software this year than every platform this gen and last combined,damn.Sold almost as much hardware as the NS and xbox combined as well,pretty good.

These 16M and 20M projection are a) for the financial year (ending in March) and b) shipments. Thing about shipments is: early in the life of a console the shipments are bigger than the sales, after the peak sales are bigger than shipments. So going from these projection for the financial year, we still have to conclude big holidays for Ninty, but also big quarter in the new year (after Pokemon and Smash and with NSMBUD releasing). I think with all considered, that Nintendo closely missing it's projection while Sony outdoes it, the Switch will close in on PS4 in the holidays, os that overall years sales are close to each other and Switch does a lot better than PS4 in Q1 2019.

Yes on both, VGC estimates sold to customer, not shipped and has no way of getting a handle on digital sales.

Yeah its not gonna be easy to catch up to the PS4.

Of course Playstation 4 is dominating the hardware and software charts, it's the best console available! Completely deserved!

I haven't mixed both. But considering Switch isn't at scarcity anymore with months without Switch easily available it already have over 1M in the channels, so if they sell 17-18M on the FY and ship another 2-3M for the stuffing the channels they would have issues for the next fiscal year.

Do you really think 1) stores are going to request so much over their need to help Nintendo stuff the channels and 2) will it look good when Nintendo make a projection for FY19 much lower than FY18 and end up looking as they are in decline?

The only way this would make sense is that they think they will sell like 24M in FY19 and only be able to produce like another 20-21M, so they need the extra production during this FY to have enough stock.

You don't need to preach to the choir... I know it is FY and shipment. Still if Nintendo ends up the calendar year much close to PS4 it will be hard to see why they would ship 2.5M more on the next quarter, after the bigger part of sales was made and just stuff the channel for bragging rights and then need to cut down shipment for the next 1 or 2 quarters and end up doing a much lower projection for the next year and look as already in decline.

Also shipments aren't fruit of solely manufacturer wish, they need stores to order and not only they can't overship forever they also really need to see the flow of units to really require.

Not an easy task for sure.

I really don't understand the reasoning behind this whole Switch closing in and overall year sales being similar.

The Switch is currently 3M behind. When people talk about it closing in is it that they forget that the PS4 isn't going to just stop selling hardware during the holidays? 

So far the PS4 has outsold the NS globally every month of 2018. For the Switch to "close in" it has to at least win Nov-dec combined even if its by 100k and that will only dent the PS4s 3M lead by 100k. To be close to the PS4 it has to outsell the PS4 globally for those two months by around 2.5M - 3M. OUTSELL. 

I am sorry but I just don't see that happening. If by the end of Nov the PS4 also wins globally again then that lead increases making the NS have even more to do cme december.

So I am not trying to be funny, I am just really curious to know how anyone thinks the NS is gonna pull this feat off. What is the NS gonna do to outsell the PS4 by 3M units in nov and Dec alone?3 

Exactly, I am foreseeing that being the case too.

I don't know about the 24M in FY2019 though, but I am almost certain that if they insist on shipping out 20M (and are even able too cause stores have to accept those shipments for that to work) then they will have to ship less overall in the next FY. Just like sony did last year or so. Its not the end of the world though.

However there is still time, at the quarter report in january they can revise their shipments down by like 1M or just leave it as is.

Good eyes. Very impressive and 2019 coming many fantastic PS4-Games again.

#so true

Does it include digital? Physical retail sales alone are becoming mroe and more meaningless. More games selling digitally today.