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Oneeee-Chan!!! on 08 January 2021
dark_gh0st_b0y said:
Ka-pi96 said:

That's not really true. Spain and especially France have always been big supporters of Nintendo consoles. That was also true last gen with the 3DS, so they didn't just "kill" their reputation post-Wii.

I guess it's better in West Europe than East Europe, but still nothing close to the Wii/DS era, especially if you consider that the Switch is a 2in1 console

In that theory,
PS4 cannot match PS3+PSP era.



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LudicrousSpeed on 08 January 2021

That’s pretty impressive



curl-6 on 08 January 2021
Oneeee-Chan!!! said:
dark_gh0st_b0y said:

I guess it's better in West Europe than East Europe, but still nothing close to the Wii/DS era, especially if you consider that the Switch is a 2in1 console

In that theory,
PS4 cannot match PS3+PSP era.

Exactly; most likely no generation will match the hardware output of the 7th gen when dedicated portable market was at its zenith in addition to 3 consoles all above 85 million.

Switch definitely has room to improve in East Europe, but not selling as much as Wii/DS is hardly a mark of underperfomance when no one system ever has or ever will come close to that.



HigHurtenflurst on 09 January 2021
curl-6 said:
Oneeee-Chan!!! said:

In that theory,
PS4 cannot match PS3+PSP era.

Exactly; most likely no generation will match the hardware output of the 7th gen when dedicated portable market was at its zenith in addition to 3 consoles all above 85 million.

Switch definitely has room to improve in East Europe, but not selling as much as Wii/DS is hardly a mark of underperfomance when no one system ever has or ever will come close to that.

Little off topic but looking at it now 2008 was a truly staggering year for hardware sales.

5 systems selling over 10 million in the year by VGC numbers (3 of them being the peak years for the systems) totalling almost 90 million, and that's not including PS2 which likely sold ~8-9 million, or the GBA which should be another 500k-1m.