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Zekkyou on 25 February 2017
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thismeintiel said:
Miyamotoo said:

And that why we can comparing it with only availible consoles at time, we cant know if we will compare Switch with PS5 or how much strong PS5 will be, so we cant say that "Switch is the weakest major home console ever compared to its competitors" when clear fact is that is Wii (at least for now).

The Switch's main competition is going to be the PS5 and, possibly, XB2.  Sure, we probably have 2 more years til the PS5 launches, but that doesn't change who its competition is going to be.  Just like the Wii U launching 1 year ahead of the PS4/XBO didn't change who its main competition was.  So, if the PS5 uses a slightly weaker version of a Vega 10, which I think is what they will do, we are looking at 11-12 Tflops vs .4 Tflops.  That's much larger than the gap between the Wii and the PS3 and the Wii U and the PS4.

The only way the Switch is not going to mainly be competing with the PS5 is if sales are so bad that Nintendo pulls the plug and tries the HW biz out one more time.  I don't think you want to hope for that, though.  Cause if that happens and then their next console flops, as well, Nintendo is going 3rd party.  At least sticking with mobile gaming, which would be a freaking sad place for them to end up.

I think we're beyond the point of being able to point at one set of systems and saying "this is the Switch's main competition". Linearly the PS5, Switch, and X2 are part of the same generation, but in actuality the Switch will probably spend about half it's life directly fighting the PS4 and X1. Even after the PS5 (and maybe X2) releases it'll likley still get some pressure from the PS4 and X1, as they'll both be very cheap.