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PS5 vs Xbox Series X|S vs Switch Launch Sales Comparison
Switch had outsold PS5 after the same time frame (38 months).
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I need one of those for my dog when it's too cold outside.
One step closer to humankind's ultimate goal: becoming high tech hamsters!Yeah now you mention it since my mother died I now put my phone on airplance mode as I get so many spam texts in the middle of the night! Seriously though, that's great for your sister, I've got the hogwarts collection and star wars ones (LEGO) and I've not foudn them as fun as Lego City Undercover.
When I was in Paris, I took a walk at 6:30 in the morning. I kept sending pics to my sister of the city forgetting that it was actually 12:30 am back home. Luckily she had notifications silenced.
I'll recomend that game to my sister. I don't believe she has it.
Interesting but not surprising. I think people forget that as much as most of us loved it, the SNES was a moderate seller but not a huge seller.
Yeah, for sure. I loved the system, is probably my all time favourite, but it really wasn’t some huge selling system.
SNES is close to my all time favourite, certainly in the top 3. guess to me it shows how big gaming is now compared to then, but from my internal perspective it's always been "big". For the PS5 to overtake it so quickly, with it's hideous industrial design, and lack of supply in the first 18 months is really something.
OMG, so forgot my steam password. I've gone through 37 captcha tests to prove I am not a robot and I keep failing, and everytime I fail they mutiple the number of cars, busses and hydrants I have to identify.
Is it apocryphal that google uses that data to train it's dirivng AI? Becuase if that's true it just makes me angrier that I'm training the job-taking AI cars for the evil advertising company known as google.
Fuck I hate google.
Hopefully not true, or else all those self driving cars crashing into hydrants because they can't recognize them will be on you.
I don't know. I consider 49 million to be a huge seller for the SNES, especially in the 90s. NES was about the same.
Looking at the numbers on Wikipedia, I thought the Genesis was much closer to SNES in sales but it only sold around 35 million. Genesis is still my favorite 16-bit system; SNES being a close second.
It's regularly on sale on Switch for £4.99
I had it physically in the first year but sold it. The graphics were improved a lot but the framerate was consistently just under 30 which was annoying.
I love it.
Also, if older games had voice acting they'd be a lot easier to play for me. Like SNES Chrono trigger or something.
NES sold 61 million, or so says Wikipedia. Assuming that's right though, that's a 20% drop. We can argue with 12 million really means one way or the other, and I suppose it won't really matter. But I definitely think it's safe to say that the Super Nintendo never had that pop culture spotlight that the Atari and the NES had before it, and that the PlayStation had afterwards.
Yeah I don't need to get it. I'm getting rid of my switch as it is.
Also the SNES had a lot more competition. NES only had to compete against Sega Master System (if you can even call that a competitor, even though it was technically superior, the marketing by Tonka was non-existent). SNES had to compete with Genesis, TurboGrafx, 3DO, Nirvana, Gameboy and just the usual sophomore slump. Even so 49 million is impressive for the time. What blows me away is the SNES took a decade to sell 49 million and had a massive library, of which 10% were pure bangers, and the PS5 has done it with... um... Well Horizon 2 I guess?
If it was fully backward-compatible I'd buy two. My purchasing decision was sealed when I found out it was backward compatible with PS4, that alone is worth the upgrade. Notable games I know of on PS5 are Astrobot, Ratchet and Clank and Marvel's Spiderman 2. What would you add to that list?