Year on Year Sales & Market Share Charts - April 7, 2018 - Sales

That Smash Bros. game is gonna put a dent on the PS4's market share. Then there's Pokémon...

I find that interesting as well. Switch really hasn't had much system sellers as PS4 this year and for it to be anywhere near close is astonishing. I mean Switch has had maybe Kirby as a potential system seller while PS4 up to April 7th has had Monster Hunter World, Dragonball FighterZ, Ni No Kuni II, Far Cry 5, A Way Out...etc. My guess is that a great bulk of those who wanted to buy a PS4 have bought it and new games are being sold more to them than new consumers or maybe these games just don't reflect the selling power of the PS4. GOW, Red Dead 2, Detroit, Kingdom Hearts 3, and Spiderman are up and I think those will push hardware for sure.

Regarding Nintendo's future, yes reviniente, Smash will push hardware but Nintendo's gonna need more than that to put up a fight against the games I've just mentioned on PS4. If Pokemon arrives this year along with Smash, and Yoshi, and Fire Emblem and Mario Tennis, and possibly Animal Crossing I think Nintendo would definitely win out but that's if they are even able to make enough hardware or a decent release schedule to accommodate consumers and hardware distribution. To say the least, this is going to be a very interesting 2nd half of 2018 for PS4 and Switch. Battle of the titans.

I think it's still all about the hype. If game releases continune this way, the hype will be over soon. Of course titles like Smash Bros and Pokémon will boost the sales again, but sooner or later sales will drop if nothing changes to this release situation. Unfortunately most multiplatform titles on Switch don't look an play as well as the PS4/XB1 counterparts (of course with the exeption of indie titles). As for the other Switch exclusive games (mostly from Nintendo itself), for me most of them lost their magic from the old days. Instead of constantly just updating old IP's and re-releasing Wii U titles, the Switch dearly need's fresh IP's, otherwise the competition may be over soon.

Not necessarily...Nintendo still has loads of IP that can push the hardware, and I'm sure they're working on new ones as newer and younger staff are introduced to the company. PS4 and Xbone get updated IPs too, let's not be blind here. Nintendo just released Arms, Splatoon, and Monolith Soft is working on a new IP as well. Nintendo games always sell well, that's not the issue, nor is graphics an issue. That doesn't really play a large hand in how well Nintendo's hardware does. It's how fun the games are. Pokemon itself will most likely outsell all the PS4 games I listed and that will indeed carry Nintendo Switch for a while.

Switch isn't really hyped as a hardware device now, the honeymoon phase is over, Switch has entered a do or die time and right now, somehow they're doing. I think it's the mentality of if I buy this on Switch, I'm essentially getting 2 games for the price of one, it's convenient, etc. and Nintendo will be supporting it for a while. In terms of software by Nintendo...they're just getting started I think.

And while, yes, most of them are iterations, most games that sell well on PS4 and Xbone are iterations as well. The competiton will still go on indeed, with games like Pokemon Gen 8, Gen 9 and probably a Gen IV remake, Mario Parties, 2D Mario games, Zelda's next big game and spinoffs, Smash, New Donkey Kong, Pikmin, Mario and Luigi, Paper Mario, Monolith Soft's new IP, Mario Kart 9, Animal Crossing, Metroid Prime 4, Kid Icarus, etc. I think Nintendo's competitive software will carry it to greatness. There are a few eras where it would be okay to be concerned about Nintendo, this is not one of them.

One X mostly. A lot of XB1/ XB1S owners are still replacing their consoles.

What are these reasons you speak of and how are they third place?