Switch will be the best-selling console and the new PlayStation and Xbox will arrive in 2020

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The Nintendo Switch will be the most sold console in 2019. That's already calculated by analysts. And maybe for this reason, Sony and Microsoft see clearly that it is time to bring the new models of PlayStation and Xbox to the world. They could arrive in 2020. Gamesindustry.biz has asked for its forecast on the market of videoconsoles to different analysts of the industry. Almost all the interviewees think that 2019 will be the year of the Switch and that PS4 and Xbox One will have worse figures. And this last one happens because the gamers already ask for or already wait for the new generation of consoles of Sony and Microsoft. Piers Harding-Rolls, from IHS Markit, ventures a great success of Switch and a drop in sales of PS4 and Xbox One.

"Switch will be the best-selling console of 2019, since PS4 and Xbox One will face the last stage of their cycles We could have several hardware announcements next year: Sony and Microsoft will reveal the next generation and we can get more details about how Nintendo intends to close the gap in its portfolio left by the decline of 3DS ", says this analyst . Serkan Toto, of Kantan Games, predicts that Nintendo Switch sales will continue to grow in 2019 and its third-party game offer will increase as companies will feel secure after console consolidation in the market. This market expert believes that 2019 will see the release of a simple version of Switch that covers the output of 3DS and represents an economic option for players.

Mat Piscatella, NPD Group, also believes that the Nintendo hybrid console will be the best-selling in the new year: "I have Switch with a forecast of 35% of total hardware sales in 2019 in the United States, with Pokémon and the strength of their important franchises pushing the console. " This analyst believes that the sales of PS4 and Xbox One will register a drop in percentages of one digit, "because we will be near the end of their respective cycles."

As explained in Gamingbolt, Piscatella expects this year announce the new PlayStation and Xbox, to reach the market as early as 2020: "My forecast is that there will be announcements and releases in 2019 and 2020, both for PlayStation 5 and for the next Xbox However, I think we are close to overcoming the traditional model of console generations, and that is why I hope both companies add features that erase those limits. " But at the moment Sony seems satisfied. As just revealed, his PlayStation 4 has already exceeded 90 million units sold. According to the data of the electronic entertainment division of the Japanese multinational, PS4 already sold 91.6 million units until December 31, 2018, an amount that was reached thanks to the 5.6 million consoles sold in the Christmas campaign ( from November 19 to December 31).