Switch: How Big Will Its 9th Gen Lead Be?

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dharh said:
It's simply hard to care anymore about what console is what gen. In the past gens meant something because most everyone was in sync. Now we have '8.5' gen from MS and SONY and 9th gen from Nintendo, all within about a year of eachother.

Instead ill have to look at the sales numbers between competition, in the time period in question, rather than strictly gens. Quite simply the Switch _will_ be competing against both offerings from SONY and MS for at least the first couple years of it's life.

So if PS4+PS4Pro sell more than the Switch within the time period from Switches release to the PS5 (or whatever they call it) I will consider PS4+PS4Pro the winner of that battle. If the reverse is true I would consider the Switch as the winner. I won't delude myself with saying that Switch is 'alone' winning off by itself simply because no one else has released a 'gen 9' console.

But why? How does it impact you in a personal way? We're looking at an impirical value here. It's a number of units sole, not a subjective evaluation of 'success'. It seems to me that the obsession with 'winning' has disabled our abiltity to truthully evaluate reality. For some reason we 'need' to discriminate in order to give ourselves room for maneouvre. The question is simple: How many units of said merchandise will have sold before other companies have produced merchandise to compete?