Acting like Sony is screwed for the PS5 is hilarious. They have dominated the generation pretty much from the start. They continue to have an extremely strong first-party studio lineup which continues to produce profitable titles. They abandoned the dwindling handheld market in which they were only losing money.

They've pretty much taken all the right steps and hopefully will have learned a bit of humility after the transition from PS2 to PS3 but history does tend to repeat itself.

While I do think Nintendo Switch's third party library will be great in the end, I think it is strange how slow publishers have been to react to the system's success. There should be more gen 7 ports by now at the very least. Also, even if they don't have any games ready to show, there should have been more announcements of support for the platform (especially with how many publishers announced projects and support for PS4/Xbone when the games were nowhere near ready).

I suppose smaller developers have really been benefiting from this developer lag, so I see it as beneficial in some ways in the end.

As for PS5, I am not sure what Sony can do to differentiate the PS5 from the PS4 enough to make it as successful as the PS4. This is the same issue Nintendo had with the DS to 3DS transition, while the predecessor broke records left and right, the successor just did more of the same slightly better and less people bought-in as these things were no longer fresh.

And the PS5 has issues of diminishing returns, not just to the layperson who struggles to see the difference between 720p and 1080p, but budgetary differences, how many developers are going to make games that they can't easily port to all the current systems?
Such games would have to be massive in budget to be of such fidelity that porting would be prohibitive, which each year fewer and fewer publishers can even afford to make such $200m+ budget games, so it really becomes less relevant since it will be such a small amount of games that won't be cross-gen.
Which is really why the Nintendo Switch will continue to get steady support after PS5 and Xbox4 launch (affirming your notion).

Also, it will have a large active install base that will probably still be growing, while PS5 and Xbox4 will be starting from scratch. And, Nintendo Switch has really no other competitor for handheld gaming, so it can take its sweet time as it keeps expanding its library and hardware SKUs.

Maybe Sony or Microsoft end up being innovative in other ways that lead to hardware growth next gen, but there isn't the same pent-up-market-demand to help them this time, like back in the 2011-2013 generation transition (even Ouya happened because of how much was pent-up), so I think it puts that much more pressure on PS5 and Xbox4 having to be something pretty radical that people just resonate with in droves.

I also think $399 is still the hardware MSRP both Sony and Microsoft want to aim for, which pushes the release date back if they are going for a more experimental design.

So yeah, I think Nintendo is in fairly comfortable position with the current trajectory of things as they continue to ramp up hardware and software this year and next year.

Acting like Sony is screwed for the PS5 is hilarious. They have dominated the generation pretty much from the start. They continue to have an extremely strong first-party studio lineup which continues to produce profitable titles. They abandoned the dwindling handheld market in which they were only losing money.

They've pretty much taken all the right steps and hopefully will have learned a bit of humility after the transition from PS2 to PS3 but history does tend to repeat itself.

Acting like Sony is screwed for the PS5 is hilarious. They have dominated the generation pretty much from the start. They continue to have an extremely strong first-party studio lineup which continues to produce profitable titles. They abandoned the dwindling handheld market in which they were only losing money.

They've pretty much taken all the right steps and hopefully will have learned a bit of humility after the transition from PS2 to PS3 but history does tend to repeat itself.

Ya its really silly to think PS5 would be in trouble by releasing 3-4 years after Switch.

We have seen that Switch & PS4 sales are not affected by one another based on the fact Switch had one of the best launch years in history at the same time that PS4 had its peak year.

PS4 and Switch are different enough that they can easily coexist/complement each other and there is no reason to believe a similar situation wont happen with PS5.

Every generation is different.  Sony dominated like never before with the PS2, then they totally botched the launch of PS3.  More importantly Microsoft and Nintendo were both tough competition in Generation 7.  The biggest reason Sony did poorly in Generation 7 is that their competition was just better.  Then in Generation 8, both Microsoft and Nintendo totally botched their launches.  The PS4 didn't do anything special with their launch at all, and yet they dominated Generation 8.  

My point is that the competition matters.  Nintendo Switch is serious competition.  If they don't take Nintendo seriously this time, then the PS5 is screwed.

If you don't think Nintendo and Sony are competing then you are in for one hell of a surprise.  The reason both consoles can do well in the same year is because Nintendo is in both the handheld and home console markets simultaneously.  Sony can win the home market and Nintendo can win the handheld market and then both do well the same year.  But if Nintendo wins the home market then Sony is going to get spanked.  

In previous generations, it was considered an advantage to be able to release your console a year or more before the competition.  Now everyone is acting like it doesn't matter at all.  If Sony gives Nintendo a 3-4 year head start, they are seriously screwed.

The Switch isn't selling to the same market as the PS4. The Switch is selling to the Nintendo market, the one they carved out for themselves. The library isn't robust enough to replace the PlayStation, it gets gimped versions of the very odd third party game like FIFA and Doom, but the full vision is realised the PS/Xbox/PC. It's a completely different demographic for Switch.

The industry and public don't view the Switch as an alternative to the PS4 or Xbox One. If they did and it was in the same market it would have directly eaten into the sales of the PS4, but it hasn't. On the contrary the PS4 has had two of it's fastest selling years so far all while the Switch was on the market.

The Switch releasing 3 years prior to PS5 means nothing for the growth of a PlayStation console. If Xbox got a 3 year head start that would be significant, because they sell to the same demographic and those same people who got an Xbox in those 3 years could have bought a PS5 instead. PS and Xbox are the core consumer base, the Switch isn't.

Why don't you know this? Fucks sake, you know what I find strange about gaming? It's the only medium I know of where it's die hard practitioners don't even know how their own industry works.

Acting like Sony is screwed for the PS5 is hilarious. They have dominated the generation pretty much from the start. They continue to have an extremely strong first-party studio lineup which continues to produce profitable titles. They abandoned the dwindling handheld market in which they were only losing money.

They've pretty much taken all the right steps and hopefully will have learned a bit of humility after the transition from PS2 to PS3 but history does tend to repeat itself.

Ya its really silly to think PS5 would be in trouble by releasing 3-4 years after Switch.

We have seen that Switch & PS4 sales are not affected by one another based on the fact Switch had one of the best launch years in history at the same time that PS4 had its peak year.

PS4 and Switch are different enough that they can easily coexist/complement each other and there is no reason to believe a similar situation wont happen with PS5.

The Switch isn't selling to the same market as the PS4. The Switch is selling to the Nintendo market, the one they carved out for themselves. The library isn't robust enough to replace the PlayStation, it gets gimped versions of the very odd third party game like FIFA and Doom, but the full vision is realised the PS/Xbox/PC. It's a completely different demographic for Switch.

The industry and public don't view the Switch as an alternative to the PS4 or Xbox One. If they did and it was in the same market it would have directly eaten into the sales of the PS4, but it hasn't. On the contrary the PS4 has had two of it's fastest selling years so far all while the Switch was on the market.

The Switch releasing 3 years prior to PS5 means nothing for the growth of a PlayStation console. If Xbox got a 3 year head start that would be significant, because they sell to the same demographic and those same people who got an Xbox in those 3 years could have bought a PS5 instead. PS and Xbox are the core consumer base, the Switch isn't.

Why don't you know this? Fucks sake, you know what I find strange about gaming? It's the only medium I know of where it's die hard practitioners don't even know how their own industry works.

The Switch isn't selling to the same market as the PS4. The Switch is selling to the Nintendo market, the one they carved out for themselves. The library isn't robust enough to replace the PlayStation, it gets gimped versions of the very odd third party game like FIFA and Doom, but the full vision is realised the PS/Xbox/PC. It's a completely different demographic for Switch.

The industry and public don't view the Switch as an alternative to the PS4 or Xbox One. If they did and it was in the same market it would have directly eaten into the sales of the PS4, but it hasn't. On the contrary the PS4 has had two of it's fastest selling years so far all while the Switch was on the market.

The Switch releasing 3 years prior to PS5 means nothing for the growth of a PlayStation console. If Xbox got a 3 year head start that would be significant, because they sell to the same demographic and those same people who got an Xbox in those 3 years could have bought a PS5 instead. PS and Xbox are the core consumer base, the Switch isn't.

Why don't you know this? Fucks sake, you know what I find strange about gaming? It's the only medium I know of where it's die hard practitioners don't even know how their own industry works.