Amazon U.S. December bestsellers and general Amazon-based discussion

[zorg1000]

Kerotan said:

zorg1000 said:

Price doesnt exist in a vacuum, its not as simple as "Switch in 2017 is cheaper than PS4 in 2014 therefore it has an advantage".

PS4 had poor competition in 2014 while Switch has strong competition in 2017.

 

 

I also find it kind of funny how the argument used to be that Switch has so many hidden costs like needing to get a memory card, pro controller, case, screen protector, etc. that made it soooooo overpriced.

But now that its selling on par with PS4 in the same time frame all of a sudden those things arent a factor and it has a major price advantage over PS4.

Switch has stronger competition? Ps4 doesn't compete very well with switch in terms of a portable and it definitely doesn't in terms of its type of software. Cartoon style games mainly. Switch has very little competition. 

 

PS4 on the other hand directly competes with xb1 and pc. 

You are cherry picking, we are talking about the dedicated gaming market, you cant just pick and choose which ones you want to compare with.

In 2014, PS3/360 had reached a saturation point and were rapidly declining. Vita/Wii U never gained traction and sold poorly throughout. 3DS had already peaked at this point and was starting to decline. XBO was still dealing with its pre-release PR blunder (DRM, always online, Kinect required, etc) and was overpriced.

In 2017, PS4 is in its prime and having its best year yet. XBO is doing decent and it had big hype for its upgrade. Both had heavy holiday discounts. 3DS is still trucking along with pretty stable sales the last few years.

 

Switch having a prime PS4 to compete with easily gives it stronger competition than PS4 had in its first year competitng against a bunch of poor/mediocre selling devices.

PS4 in 2017 is much stronger competition than XBO in 2014.

But other than that, there are a whole bunch of other factors to include rather than just price like you were saying earlier.