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PS4 and Xbox One sales decline faster than in the USA expected; Switch remains stable

The waiting for the next generation obviously hampers sales more than expected. We approach the end of the life of this console generation. While games for the PS4 and Xbox One will continue to come out after this holiday (and of course the Switch), the focus will change rather dramatically when starting the PS5 and Xbox Series X. Of course, there will be a certain decline in sales in these systems, but it seems that the decline is much more than normal. As the Analyst Daniel Ahmad of Niko Partners (known in many circles known as Zhuge) in detail, the decline in testing the latest NPD report in the same period is much steeper than PS3 and 360. Nevertheless, Nintendos Switch remains stable. Of course, several factors play a role here. Ahmad continues that we know more about the PS5 and the series X in the time frame than about the PS4 and the ONE. This time before publishing on current systems, we basically did not know anything about them, where we had an official revelation for t...