ZhugeEX "Xbox One sales around 41m"

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curl-6 said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

I see.  So you don't think that Nintendo and Sony are competing anymore?  For example, the DS never really competed with the PS3 and the 3DS never competed with the PS4.  Now that Nintendo only has one console, you think it isn't competing with Sony anymore at all?  Or do you even think the Wii U was competing with PS4?  I definitely think the Wii U and PS4 were competing. 

If Switch was directly competing with Playstation, Switch's success would've resulted in PS4 sales slumping; that hasn't happened. Similarly, PS5 won't take sales away from Switch. 

Untrue. 

The Wii launched to great success.  It didn't hamper the sales of the PS2 at all.  The hardware power levels of the Wii and PS2 were much closer than the Wii and PS3, in fact.  But the Wii was breaking sales records at the same that the PS2 was having extremely strong legs.  This is very much like the relationship between the Switch and PS4.

On the other hand the Wii WAS impacting PS3 sales.  Wii was breaking sales records and PS3 was majorly struggling for its first few years.  Wii was not competing with PS2, but it was competing with PS3.  The Wii was not competing with the Playstation brand as a whole.  It was competing with a very specific console, the PS3 and the PS3 alone.z

This is what people should expect when the PS5 launches.  The Switch is not competing with the PS4, but it is competing with the PS5.  PS5 is going to struggle just like the PS3 struggled.  And the PS4 is not hampered by the Switch's success just like the PS2 was not hampered by the Wii's success.