Make your call: how long until Switch exceeds "X1family".

[Mr Puggsly]

AlfredoTurkey said:

Mr Puggsly said:

I see your point, but if all games are gonna work on both then they are the same platform. They're running the same content with different graphical settings, like a PC.

If X1X becomes gets its own games down the road, kinda like New 3DS has, then it starts to become its own platform.

There are alot of reasons for not putting Switch up against Xbox One. For starters, they're seperate genereations. Do we compare PS1 and Dreamcast sales? No, we compare PS1 and N64 sales and we do that for a reason. The second and even more legit reason why we shouldn't include Xbox One sales is because it launched in 2013. Switch launched almost four years later lol. How in the hell can anyone think that's a fair fight and not totally ridiculous? That's almost an entirely new generational gap time-wise. 

 

Since Xbox X releases within the same calendar year, it should be the only console used when comparing sales with Switch. 

Well lets ignore generations because they kinda don't matter when 9th gen begins in what may be the middle of the 8th gen. Wii U was scrapped faster than probably intended because it was a sales disaster.

Dreamcast WAS competing with PS1 and it shared games. Technically, Dreamcast competed with PS1 longer than PS2 if you look at release dates and when Sega threw in the towel. Sega gave up virtually one year after PS2 released, about 6 months in the US.

This isn't about a fair fight. People are simply guessing when Switch COULD surpass X1's userbase. Hence, does the Switch have enough momentum to surpass the X1 and if so how quickly.

In the grand scheme, it doesn't really matter. Not because these are platforms of different generations, but because these devices appeal to primarily different audiences. Hence, even if the userbase of X1 and Switch was equal, their top selling software is going to be very different. So both platforms succeed with primarily different audiences.