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PS4 , Switch and Xbox one are the 3rd, 4th and 5th fastest selling consoles time aligned in the US
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nice to see they all did relatively well. really good for a healthy industry to have 3 well-performing competitors in it.
NPD started tracking during the PS2 era, right?
Aligned should be like this:
As for the Switch, the results are pretty nice but I feel like they could be better with a more aggressive pricing strategy.
Launch aligned, PS4 got a price drop 6 months prior and the closest thing Switch has gotten to a bundle is the Black Friday limited bundle and some with $30 gift cards.
Aligned should be like this:
- PS2
- Wii
- PS4
- Switch
- Xbox 360
- Xbox One
- PS3(?)
- Xbox
- Gamecube
As for the Switch, the results are pretty nice but I feel like they could be better with a more aggressive pricing strategy.
Launch aligned, PS4 got a price drop 6 months prior and the closest thing Switch has gotten to a bundle is the Black Friday limited bundle and some with $30 gift cards.
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The switch isn't 68 months in market so you can't put it in the same comparison. This's time aligned. If the Switch continue to outperform the XOne up to its 68 months then yes the XOne will the be the 6th best selling consoles in that period.
If you mean up to 28 months then we don't know if the X360 was selling better than the XOne within the first 28 months of their lifetime to say for sure if it's the 5th or 6th.
Missing the PS3 there, probably ahead of the Xbox and Gamecube.
There is no way the PS3 tracked below the gamecube and OG xbox.
Or am I crazy?
considering when tracking started, it's selling better than ps3, gamecube and OG xbox.
How could Wii possibly be ahead of PS4 at this point considering PS4 has likely already sold more than Wii LTD?
Not dogging the Xbox One at all but it has to hurt to sell less this generation than the previous one especially with a mid gen hardware refresh and super cheap consoles.
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This's US only. PS4 is probably doing better in smaller countries while falling behind in the US up to this point.
Sure, definitely possible. The PS3 was way overpriced when it launched. I don't believe it sold that well until it got a massive price cut
I don't know. Switch launched at a lower price and PS4 didn't fall to the same price until, what, 3 years after release?
Lol.
The PS3 was at ~23 million at the end of this year launch aligned.
That's more than the GC sold overall and 1 million less than the Xbox sold overall.
No.
Different timeframes.
Switch is not out yet for 68 months.
Xb360 and Xbox One do not have to be 5th and 6th after 28 months necessarily
once The holiday Come the switch will take back it's spot since they got release at different times Sony have a extra Xmas on switch so they switch every now and then being in the lead
I agree about Switch pricing, but they do have a cheaper option coming with the Switch Lite. They probably won't cut the OG Switch any time soon because the Lite and OG models should be at least $100 difference given what you are getting, but they should include a game or something with the OG model.
Oh yeah that's right.
Looking at Wikipedia, sales in the Americas' for Wii, sales are around 45 million after 5 years (December 31 2011).
Considering PS4 is still behind even though Wii slowed significantly after 2011 (it only sold 3 million more the rest of its life in the US - 48.64 million as of December 31 2016) shows just how fast the Wii was selling.
And PS4's competition at the time was Xbox One (Kinect forcibly included until half a year later) and the Wii U. I feel like your console options were more limited back then.
The industry is healthy, It must be a good time to be a indie developer right now. Not easy time, but a good time to start business.
It is about as limited as it is today. I doubt it would have been any different. No one knew Xbox One was going to sell like it did and there was tons of negative media prior to both consoles launching.
Very nice.
True, but a $100 price edge is undoubtedly a much bigger advantage. It was one of the reasons the PS4 did so much better than X1 when this gen started.
Thats exactly what the tweet says:
"After 68 months in market, the PS4 has the 3rd highest time aligned Console installed base in US tracked history, trailing only the Wii and PS2"
It's crazy how successful 360 was. Right time right place. Will probably not happen again.
You're probably not old enough to remember the old meme on the old forum with the GBA vs PS3 strips whenever a new NPD came out.
Switch Lite is coming.
Glad to see all three did well this gen, especially after the whole nonsensical "consoles are doomed" narrative so many were peddling back in the day.
Actually no. So I guess not lol. it would be another 4 years before I was that invested in the industry.
You're right. I was trying to find a separate source but I guess that's enough confirmation.
True, this is why the best comparison between Switch and PlayStation 4 is by fiscal year. Worldwide:
(PlayStation had one more quarter for its first fiscal year, but it's a fair comparison since fiscal year 2)