Well I forgot switch was within 2 million, so this was a pleasant surprise.

Can I make a request? I know you've been comparing Switch launch to Xbox Series X/S and PS5. Do you think in the upcoming months you could make a X1 vs Series X/S and PS5 vs PS4?

Also, I would love to see how the Switch compares to Xbox 360's US.

In your dreamworld, Sony intentionally guts PS5 sales to arbitrarily boost the PS4's lifetime sales total?

Seems kinda redundant with so few months. I'd wait till Feb/March data is available at least, then you can see a trend in the graph.

I guess this proves it, Japan IS games.

Switch is behind Wii in US by maybe 3m, it might catch up by the end of this year if it repeats this year.
in Europe it's behind by maybe 3.5m, even if it repeats this years success it will still take until mid 2022 to catch I think.

In "other" markets the Switch has just passed Wii's lifetime total, not sure how much of a lead it has launch aligned but a lot of this success is just due to being available in those regions.

Japan though is mindblowing, I'm guessing it must be a 7-8 million lead launch aligned? (which makes the "other" region lead about 3-4m I suppose)

I wonder if the Switch will build a good enough lead on the Wii so that it doesn't fall behind when the Wii's last strong holiday passes.

The PS4 would need 12M in the NA to match what the 360 did. In all honesty, I doubt the PS4 is going to do 12M more total, let alone in NA. The PS1 and PS2 are outliers at this point. I'm honestly guessing 5-8M more units total for the PS4. 

I don't recall Sony struggling to produce enough PS2's to ship in it's launch year.  You are completely missing the point that to focus on pushing PS4 sales at this moment in time would take resources away from manufacturing PS5's at a time when they are already having trouble manufacturing PS5's as it is. 

It's not the year 2000 anymore.  The margins on hardware are razor thin.  The end of lifespan price cuts that you are longing for don't exist anymore, and haven't in over a decade.  There's no reason to push the old tech at dirt cheap prices, when the only people you will be bringing into the ecosystem will be buying years old software from the bargain bin, or worse yet for the manufacturer, used games.  Where there is little profit to be made, there is little incentive for a business to do it.

@trunkswd When are you going to post the 3DS vs NSW Japan graph?