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The article says it's selling like hotcakes, but also that it may be at 8M sold worldwide. By comparing, the Nintendo switch sold ten times as much. Surely 8M
by riffraff 5y ago
The article says it's selling like hotcakes, but also that it may be at 8M sold worldwide.
By comparing, the Nintendo switch sold ten times as much.
Surely 8M is good sales but isn't this a bit over hyped?
- ls612 5y agoIt may well be supply constrained for the same reason every other device with a processor is supply constrained.
- dougmwne 5y agoI think it is probably not a fair comparison since the Quest has mostly been in stock. I think it is greatly benefiting from people not being able to buy next gen consoles.
- danso 5y agoThe Switch is the next generation for 2 extremely popular consoles — the 3DS and the Wii (let's ignore the WiiU, since the rest of the world largely did) — which has a userbase far greater than all VR systems combined. The 3DS alone sold 76m consoles. By comparison, the PSVR took about 3 years to hit 5 millions sales in 2020.