| Soundwave said: Switch I think is a fairly radical shift for even Nintendo moreso than even Wii and Wii U were in some ways. It's like for me saying 3DS is a direct competitor for the Playstation 4. I mean it's really not, and that's fine. I don't think to be quite honest Nintendo's heart was in the console business anyway ... did they ever like anything as far as where the console business was going? They complained about supporting TV resolutions (well consoles kinda need to play on a TV). They complained about consoles being too big. They complained about online play. They complained about console games having too big of budgets. They complained about graphics being too important. I think the console concept just turned into something Nintendo didn't like anymore. A portable machine that can output to a TV for *them* probably made a lot more sense than continuing with the old home console/seperate handheld lineage. It just wasn't working anymore for them. Sony/MS have their market, Switch will be a different market (largely 3DS owners I think). Sony is not worried about the Switch, in fact I think they want the Switch to do well, they want more kids coming into the dedicated gaming space, and Nitnendo is important to that, I think Sony has said as much. If Sony wanted to compete with Switch, they'd release a Vita 2, but I don't think that's happening. I think they got the "lets try to beat Nintendo at portables since we beat them at consoles" thing out of their system and Vita sobered them up. Now they're just going to focus on Playstation 4 and 5 and Playstation VR, which is basically like its own platform. |
I think you have to state direct competitors not on percieved power (which is all that is different between Switch and PS4) but on content. This is why we need to wait to see what content will be on NS before we can consider them direct competitors or complements.
