70% of Switch Owners in the USA own a PS4 or Xbox One

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S.Peelman said:

I don’t get the logic in here that people bought a PS4 because they wanted to play third party games. That makes no sense, since Switch is newer, wouldn’t it actually be the other way around? It’s more likely people bought a PS4 first and a Switch later. More logical would be saying that people owning a PS4 bought a Switch because they wanted to have a new experience. Or alternatively you could say WiiU gamers bought a PS4 because WiiU sucked and are now upgrading from their WiiU’s to Switch. Lastly, there’s already so many PS4’s out in the world that anyone who’s buying a Switch is likely to already own something else regardless of their wants, needs and preferences.

This is it exactly.  I think I've read through this whole thread, and this is the only response that really "gets it".  People move on to a newer console, because they are ready for new gaming experiences. 

In fact, this is exactly why console generations exist.  People are not looking for a more powerful console.  They are looking for new gaming experiences.  (A more powerful console is just one possible path to these new experiences.)  A lot of PS2 owners bought a Wii, because they were looking for new gaming experiences.  This is why the Wii was "next gen" compared to the PS2.  The power of the new console didn't matter, but the new experiences did matter.  This is also why the Switch is "next gen" compared to the PS4 and XB1.  People are ready to move on to a new console, because the others are getting old.

That "70%" statistic from the original post is really just saying that Switch owners are those who have already moved on to the next gen console and 70% of them (in the US) happened to have owned a PS4 or XB1 from the previous generation.