ZhugeEX "Xbox One sales around 41m"

[The_Liquid_Laser]

curl-6 said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

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.

PS3's struggles were the result of its own excessive price, initially weak software, and bad PR.

PS5 will not be affected by the Switch because people buy them for totally different reasons.  The people buying PS4s, which is primarily those who want mainstream AAA games, will never be satisfied with a Switch, so it will not draw them away.

Sony made bad decisions with the PS3, and therefore it lost to the competition.  Customers chose a different console, because the PS3 was not a good choice.  Sales of one console go up while another go down.  That is competition.  

We were debating PS5 vs. Switch competition (or lack thereof).  But the bigger question is if you think the PS3 was competing with the Wii.  I definitely think the PS3 competed with the Wii.  Some of those PS2 customers bought a Wii instead of a PS3 (and some bought a XBox360). The Wii impacted the sales of the PS3.  That is how competition works.