At the current pace, here's what the all-time top five best-selling home consoles will be by the end of the year:
1) PlayStation 2
2) PlayStation 4
3) PlayStation
4) Wii
5) PlayStation 3
Seeing a pattern here? Sony knows what they're doing! They usually win because they usually have the right focus: games. (It took them a while to get on that point with the PS3, but they figured it out once their initial arrogance caught up with them.) It's inescapable that the appeal of PlayStation systems has everything to do with the sheer volume of games that they offer in comparison to the competition. (It is a business, after all.) That and I think Sony's first-party titles have started to get pretty damn good over the last generation all in all.
Now the Switch's success is obviously different in nature since people seem to mostly buy a combination of indie games and first-party titles for it, not so much third-party releases, but I think most people approach the Switch as a secondary system specifically for Nintendo and indie games and already own a PS4 for other stuff. My point being that it's not actually a threat to Sony's market so much as Microsoft's systems are. There's a lot of overlap between PS4 owners and Switch owners, but not so much between PS4 owners and Xbox One owners.
So yeah, I think this shows that they've still got the gaming market in perspective.
