| Captain_Yuri said: It is very much about semantics because a mini-PC is a sub-category of PC and since your argument is about why PC hasn't taken over the consoles, it is about public perception of the form factor of PCs first and then other things second. Just because PC's can be found in smaller form factor doesn't mean the public sees the smaller form factor version when thinking about PCs hence why the form factor argument stands. And people will see the Switch as a tablet because like PCs that has had an established form factor when the casuals think about them as being mid-tower desktops, the Switch will be seen as a tablet for the very same reason. Well you havn't exactly proven me wrong with that. The only thing you seemed to have tried to do with your arguments is try to prove that what I'd call impluse buy range devices should sell higher than ones that aren't and the ones that are priced higher should sell considerably worse which certainly isn't my argument. Sure the PSP sold well but that doesn't mean that I am wrong in my impluse buy range since that pricing is meant to help the buyer choose more easily which can be argued that it did considering the DS and etc. Of course, it doesn't mean that being within that price range will make sales happen automatically since sales always comes from a combination of things. All impluse buy pricing does is help the buyer choose more easily. But it's not such a fixed variable. Because as an example, apart from Sega, there weren't exactly many consoles which came close to the sales of Nintendo consoles back then. And then Sony came and far surpassed Nintendo consoles with the ps1 and then the ps2 and etc which increased the size. So I wouldn't call Vita sales is perfectly normal cause the market isn't a fixed variable and just because it didn't happen pre-DS shouldn't be the case. Cause Sony came with the PSP which sold really well. Since the PSP was such a success, the Vita should have sold a lot more than 15 million even with the so called "abnormal" market during the DS era. |
Your argument literally makes no sense in any context especially the last part of the first paragraph, you basically just said form factor doesn't matter but it matters in your argument, that is a summary of your first paragraph. Right now you've attempted to use sematics to move goal posts but unfortunately no matter how far you move them the point still stands, tablets are established by their application and use, nothing about the Switch so far even resembles that the only similarity is the screen which is even used different to any tablet. At most Switch will be seen as a portable with a tablet like design, even the posters going up in shops highlight it more as a console as does the unveil and the demo on the Tonight Show.
You were proven wrong a while back mate, Wii and PSP shot down your sentiment earliar, you've yet to disprove this as this 2 platforms proved that price is well with in impulse buy range.
It's not a fixed variable but it hovers with in a certain range for example the NES and MS had a combined haul of around 75m and their successor gen the SNES/MD had a combined haul of 80m well with in range of each other. The PSP's success is not attributed to it's early drive but other factors like for one the platform became a haven for piracy and emulation and effectively launched the homebrew scene for portable devices (FFVII was running on PCs long before it was on PSN), in the long run PSP was a disaster because after 2 years Sony and developers didn't really support the system would have dropped off like all other contenders in the market before it, it was saved in Japan by Monster Hunter and was carried single handedly by the homebrew scene in the west. This is why it ended up doing so well but as a platform on its own it was very poor it would be like the Wii U selling 80m because the's an exploit everyone wants to take advatage of, Vita fixed the exploit that the homebrew scene where using so all of a sudden a large selling factor in the west was removed while in Japan key developers jumped ship to 3DS. Vita is likely what PSP would have attained had it not had what saved it, the sales are normal because the total portable sales this gen (likely end at 85m total) match the non abnormal gens pre-DS in fact they're going to surpass the GBA gen total, in comparison the market is still pretty normal.
