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jason1637 said:

1. 2019 is the peak year for the Switch.   *Probably does 19m yep.

2. The Switch outsells the PS4 and XBO.   *without a doubt.

3. PS4 and XBO sales are down YOY.   *its their 6th year so yeah.

4. Diskless XBO public opinion is mostly positive   *probably in the US, elsewhere im not so sure.

5. Anthem gets reviews in the mid to low 80s but EA does not update it fast enough for playerbase to stay.

6. Sea of Thieves tops 10m players.  *10m people with nothing better to do.

7. Gears 5 becomes the most popular Gears game multiplayer wise due to gamepass.  

8. 360 BC and Gamepass come to Windows 10 around E3. *this would please the PC crowd I suspect.

9. Division 2 sales fall short of Division 1 but ends up having longer legs due to it being a better game.  

10. MS announces the next Xbox at E3 like they did for the One X in 2016.

11. Metroid Prime 4 becomes the fastest selling Metriod game.    *Not just fastest selling, MOST selling metroid game, only 2.8m needed.

12. Nintendo revives a old ip.

13. Death Stranding launches this year.   *this is very likely with all the hints about it

14. Next CoD is MW4 and it becomes the best selling game of the year.

15. Fornite is still the most popular game.

16. Fallout 76 becomes good after lots of updates.  *unlikely, game is ruined they should put all their effort into TES instead.

17. Cyberpunk gets a release date.

18. Zelda remake coming to switch.

19. Pokemon 2019 has Lets Go catching system but also with battles. *Hopefully not, people would enjoy a more traditional Pokemon imo.

20 Days Gone sells better than what most people expected.  *it got too much crap for no reason, game looks great.

All of these seem pretty reasonable to me :)



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zorg1000 said:
drinkandswim said:

Switch has 1 teraflop of performance. Base Xbox One 1.31 teraflops. Xbox 360/PS3 230 gflops approx.

 

https://www.gamespot.com/gallery/console-gpu-power-compared-ranking-systems-by-flop/2900-1334/

No it doesnt and that's not how you compare power.

I mean yeah it does dude games didnt run at 1080P in that generation.



drinkandswim said:
Shadow1980 said:

Switch has 1 teraflop of performance. Base Xbox One 1.31 teraflops. Xbox 360/PS3 230 gflops approx.

https://www.gamespot.com/gallery/console-gpu-power-compared-ranking-systems-by-flop/2900-1334/

Switch does NOT have 1 Tflop of compute power.
Your thinking about the chip Nvidia makes thats inside the switch, when its running at normal clocks.
Switch runs at lower clock rates (slower)

Also that 1tflop is fp16.


Its floating point performance in fp32 (what the PS4 & XB1 are measured in) is actually around ~393 Gflops. (0.393 Teraflops) when docked.

Stop spreading bad information.

Its wrong to say the switch is 1 tflop, when its not.

 

FP32:
XB1s = 1,4 Tflops (older "fat" models are 1,31 Tflops)
PS4s = 1,84 Tflops
Switch = 393 Gflops (0.393 Tflops) (when docked)

 

*edit:
It should also be noted that not all flops are equal (in actual real world performance).... So the Switch is abit stronger than the 393 Gflops might suggest compaired to the PS4/XB1. But we re talking maybe a 10-15% advantage or so, due to how nvidia makes their GPUs.
Switch is still alot weaker compaired to the other 2.

Last edited by JRPGfan - on 05 January 2019

drinkandswim said:
zorg1000 said:

No it doesnt and that's not how you compare power.

I mean yeah it does dude games didnt run at 1080P in that generation.

That's not a counter argument.

And read what JRPGfan said, all you are doing is spreading nonsense that has been corrected 100 times on this site. If you don't understand how specs work than dont talk about them.



When the herd loses its way, the shepard must kill the bull that leads them astray.

drinkandswim said:
Shadow1980 said:

That absolutely will not surprise me. A lot of people were saying the same thing back in 2010 to 2013 because console sales were in decline at the time. Of course, all the doomsayers completely forgot that the console market is cyclical:

Yeah I wouldn't say the Console market is doomed. It just needs to head toward Hybrid territory ala Nintendo. Cloud gaming will the next big thing. When that fully comes to fruition is unknown though. I do see a peak coming to the traditional console market coming and even Sony and Microsoft recognize it and are making adjustments accordingly.

Why Sony or MS should go ala Nintendo?  92M sold in 5 years(PS4) is not enough for you ? Games like Horizon, GOW, RDR2, GTAV, Forza Horizon4, Halo5, Geras of War 4, are not good enough for you ? Because, if you go ala Nintendo, you will forget about the quality/graphics/physics/details/IQ/AI and size of these Games.  Things will get better and bigger for PS5 and Next XBox, while you would keep playing forever small-medium sized games with very average graphics and basic animations on a hybrid console.   Wouldn't be better to have variety in this beautiful universe, which is VIDEOGAMES.   Bro, I think you have no idea what you are talking about, and you seem very confused about a lot of arguments and some of your posts in this Thread and in the "Global Hardware 8 December" show a bit of confusion. And I'm not the only one who noticed that...

 Switch is selling good, but it's still a new console, and you don't know which will be its future when PS5 and Next XBox will come out. You can make your guess, but unless you have a crystal ball, you won't know for sure.  Wii and other consoles have already showed how much unpredictable is this Videogame "territory"; Nintendo Wii, after a total dominance of 3 years and half, suddenly started to decline in a way that nobody could forecast. Nobody was expecting such a decline, after all that success, and in a relatively short time.

 PS4, on the other hand, is still selling great, another year of huge success(Software and sales), and it entered its 6th year in the life cycle, do you realize that ? 

Sony has dominated this Generation, they learnt from previous mistakes with PS3, they have already demostrated everything and they shouldn't change their winning phylosophy and strategy, just improve as any other Company, 'cause there's always space for improvements.   They have delivered some of the best Game experience ever, Goty, they have sold record numbers since the Launch, still extraordinarily competitive in their 6th year(without a real price cut yet), and you you are coming here, telling everybody what Sony should do ? :) going Hybrid ala Nintendo?   Switch is the one who have to show something, because it's a new Console, and who knows which will be its future in 2/3 years from now. Sony has already proved and demostrated everything this Generation, winning this Generation, not the other way around.  Don't get confused ;)   

  Let's all enjoy the Game experience we prefer.

 



”Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”

Harriet Tubman.

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zorg1000 said:
Nate4Drake said:

It depends on price-cut and big AAA PS4 titles which might be released in 2019.   They could be more close than you expect.

 For 2018, PS4 should win in the Global. In US PS4 has been dominating all the year, apart for December, which is a very strong month for Nintendo. In Europe PS4 has dominated and litterally crushed Switch. About Japan, it is the smallest Market, and Sony seems to not care that much.  So what you have in a entire year, is Switch selling better in only one single month(December) in NA, better in Japan, the smallest market, and completely crushed in Europe.  Don't you agree ?

This is one of the strangest arguments I have ever seen, it includes a whole lot of deflection and things that simply dont matter.

Maybe it was some irony, in response of his post... maybe...



”Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”

Harriet Tubman.

General Predictions

- Animal Crossing and Yoshi's Crafted World will be cute
- That new Sonic movie will be terrible
- There will be guns in the new Call of Duty
- There will be balls in the new FIFA
- There will be balls in the new Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator
- With the new Pokémon games, Game Freak will mostly try to appeal to gen 1 fans
- No interesting or relevant characters will come to Smash
- Anthem will be technically alright, but very generic and full of microtransactions
- Nintendo will hire Donald Trump to make Half Life 4

So just the obvious stuff.

Hardware Sales

3DS - 2.5M
XOne - 6.5M
PS4 - 16M
Switch - 20M
Atari VCS - 25M

Software Sales

FIFA 20 (PS4) - 12M
Call of Duty: Pew Pew (PS4) - 13M
Pokémon Salt & Pepper (NS) - 18M
Tom Clancy's The Division 2 (PS4) - 5M
Animal Crossing: Cute Grass (NS) - 12M
Luigi's Mansion 3: Boooooo (NS) - 5M
Anthem (PS4) - 6M
E.T. the Extra-Terrestial 2 (AVCS) - 25M
Kingdom Hearts III (PS4) - 5M
Days Gone (PS4)- 8M

(Lifetime sales for games releasing in 2019)

GOTY

Days Gone
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Doom Eternal
E.T. the Extra-Terrestial 2 (winner)
Shekiro: Shadows Die Twice



zorg1000 said:
drinkandswim said:

I mean yeah it does dude games didnt run at 1080P in that generation.

That's not a counter argument.

And read what JRPGfan said, all you are doing is spreading nonsense that has been corrected 100 times on this site. If you don't understand how specs work than dont talk about them.

Lol yeah okay the Switch is 360 gflops but running the same games at 4 times the pixels. Get real you guys have no clue.



drinkandswim said:
zorg1000 said:

That's not a counter argument.

And read what JRPGfan said, all you are doing is spreading nonsense that has been corrected 100 times on this site. If you don't understand how specs work than dont talk about them.

Lol yeah okay the Switch is 360 gflops but running the same games at 4 times the pixels. Get real you guys have no clue.

Ummm its not? 1080p is 2.25x the pixels as 720p, not 4x. Also many Switch games arent 1080p so there goes that argument anyway.

Again, that is not how you compare power, you cannot just look at the number of flops to make a comparison, there is so much more to it than that.



When the herd loses its way, the shepard must kill the bull that leads them astray.

1.Pokemon Gen 8 will be more ambitious then some think, and will be the first Pokémon game in two decades to reach 20 million in sales
2. Days Gone will disappoint massively
3. Only one of the big 3 of upcoming Sony First will release.
4. The switch will surpass 5.5 million sold in Japan minimum
5. Ps4 sell through will not surpass 15 million
6. Both next gen consoles will be revealed
7. KH3 will be on track to outsell the original
8. Nintendo will end the year with atleast 8 10 million sellers