| Renar said: Overall, yes. As you break the gaming market down into various sections, no, not as much. To me, the best analogy is trucks versus cars. If you are mostly interested in what a truck can do for you, then you buy a truck. Or perhaps if you can afford it, a truck and a car. Cars can do somewhat the same things as a truck. They can carry a bit of a load, can drive off-road if the terrain isn't too bad, etc. Yet more cars sell than trucks, because they are easier to handle, and do a few things better than trucks do.
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To carry this analogy further....
For some people, only a truck will satisfy their needs. Cars do not compete for them.
For others, they have no need or want of a truck, and so here again we have no competition.
But for a significant number of people, trucks and cars offer different advantages (space, safety vs convenience, mileage). Here, direct competition is occuring. For most of the 90s and early 00s, trucks and SUVs ate up a huge portion of the auto market, but that seems to have been diminishing in recent months as gas prices have become more important.
So - on the extreme ends of the market, no competion, but in the vast middle, very much so.
