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AngryLittleAlchemist on 03 October 2017
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fatslob-:O said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

You said competition is not always important and can often even be a hinderence. I asked if Switch is applicable to this, being the only forseeable handheld right now. 

People argue that competition is required for consumerism to flourish but we see that this is not the case in vast portions of our life ... (see elastic demand)

Many goods and services in life are monopolized from one extent to another but a monopoly can in fact actually self-destruct if customers can't handle the compromises set by producers or service providers ... 

Switch being the only portable console so far is not a problem since there's no extreme impediments for it but that doesn't mean consumers can't react differently to how the change in Switch systems are sold when the said manufacturer has a monopoly. For monopolies such as the Switch to be sustainable or any monopolies for that matter the manufacturer's have to be reasonable about parameters such as pricing (very few are going to buy a Switch system at $1000 so settling for $300 is in the realm of being acceptable) or support (Nintendo still has to release games on the Switch regardless of monopoly or not) 

Thanks. To clarify I wasn't saying you were wrong. Just wanted your opinion.

DonFerrari said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

The best bet is just to ride the PS4 train out and make PS5 a hybrid in my opinion. Which is funny, because I actually thought for the last few months that making a straight handheld would serve them well. It really depends ... with the PSP and Vita there was too many problems from Sony.

I wouldn't like a PS5 being hibrid... and when I said PSVita with full PS4 library I was giving an example, meaning that on launch of PS5 we also get a handheld and or a hibrid that can play PS5 games with some acceptable compromise (akin to what Switch have and PSVita was supposed to have)

So you want Sony to have a handheld that has the exact same library as the PS5 but be compromised? 

I mean ... that could work .... but they'd sell it only in Japan pretty much. I'd rather Sony try to go all in or not play at all, that was the problem with the Vita to begin with.