DélioPT said:
zorg1000 said:
Your problem is that you constantly draw false conclusions to support your stance.
Sure, Switch didnt cause PS4/XBO sales to drop but who cares? I could turn it around and say PS4 in 2017 wasnt a primary console because despite having it's best year it couldn't stop Switch from having one of the best launch years in history. That statement would be equally silly because it draws a false conclusion with nothing to back it up.
The people who buy a $400+ console at launch are typically not the same people who buy a sub-$200 device that's ~4 years old.
I know $400 wont be an issue for PS5, it will sell great at that price, that however does not mean Switch cannot also do very well at $199 around the same time.
Just like Genesis did not stop NES from selling in 1989/1990 or Saturn/PS1 stop SNES in 1995/1996 or PS2 stop PS1 in 2000/2001 or PS3/360/Wii stop PS2 in 2006/2007 or PS4/XBO stop 3DS in 2014/2015, or Switch stop PS4/XBO in 2017/2018, PS5/XB4 will not stop Switch in 2020/2021.
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Who cares?
So, not causing sales to go down and causing sales to go down mean the same thing to you?
You can turn things around. You'll be ignoring pretty much everything, but ok.
"The people who buy a $400+ console at launch are typically not the same people who buy a sub-$200 device that's ~4 years old."
It's true.
But at the same time, that situation in not the same when you have a console that is dominant or a console that's living off the dominant's market.
If the shift from PS4 to PS5 is as fast as it was from PS3 to PS4, then things might not go as one would expect, specially in the case of where a console like Switch is still to exposed to that "shifting" market.
I'm not saying with this that sales will fall of a cliff or that the blow will be really hard, but it might be the case where Switch's life cycle is substantially reduced. And when you are dependant on one console (no signs of that changing) then… things might not go so swiftly for Nintendo.
In other words, if we saw - or start seeing - Switch really building it's own market (stealing customers), i would be less concerned.
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PS4/XBO sales not going down shows the exact opposite of what you are arguing. It shows that PS/XB and Switch are not direct competitors, they coexist.
