Length contest, as it's always been. It doesn't help that both Sony and Nintendo put out their reports at the same general time frame so there's always reactions.
It is up double digits YoY but some people don't really understand how those things work.
Yep. Old model is being phased out, and the new refreshed model and the lite model are taking over since they have all new chips.
So there shipment number is relatively low compared to PS4 even though it is most definitely selling more because there withholding stock due for a revision. Interesting. Or perhaps there was more consoles in the channels then they forecast due to the previous quarter.
Here in the ME I am literally the only one in my circle of friends who owns a switch, it's pretty much PS4 land here and deservdly so because Sony actually has an official present here and they put an effort localising all of their games in Arabic .
Also Spain. The better question is do we have any data showing Switch isn't the leading console this year in any region?
Officially? Not really. Assumed? Most of Europe and Asia. Late launches in some countries and deep rooted PS territories don't help so much for the Switch in these aspects, along with the fact that PS4 is still officially available in many more countries than the Switch right now. A lot of Asian and Middle Eastern countries go gray market.
No it doesn't. The shipments are extremely low compared to that of the PS4, which is supposed to have a way lower sell through this quarter. And in the past we have also never seen PS4 shipments plummet that low when a new model was imminent.
Given software charts, those wouldn't be safe assumptions.
Examples like this (support for smaller markets) is the reason PS4 HW is up 2% this quarter. Despite selling less in JP, US and some other countries
There was no overshipment last year either, sellthrough and shipments tracked pretty consistently for Switch. They're bleeding the channel and Nintendo's historically the most reluctant to channel stuff of the big 3. They learned hard lessons with GC and Wii U inventories.
Sony is obviously overshipping consoles in its 6 year to inflate the numbers
We've never had the PS4 be totally replaced like this- the model on sale in this quarter will be totally obsolete within a matter of months.
And thank god. it was always a pain to guess how their Europe strength is.
Again overshipping is normal. The proportion can vary but in general you don't want a potential customer lost because you failed to supply.
Which is exactly why I was expecting more than the 2 million it did this quarter. I'm assuming that's pretty low which just makes me think nothing is selling that well.
No. It probably sold more than the shipped number. They are clearing stock because of two revisions, one of which will be a total replacement of the current model.
Well hearing shipped figures is completely stupid then. I'd much rather hear what it actually sold if it has the potential of being higher than the shipped number.
All the data about shipped vs sold we got for ps4 says that Sony doesn't overship consoles by a lot
