Japan Sales week 5, January 28 - February 3 , 2019

[Faelco]

xMetroid said:

Faelco said:

Wrong. 

Japan became a handheld and mobile land, and home consoles are becoming more and more a niche product for societal reasons. It's deeper than Nintendo VS Sony, it's the type of gaming changing. Mobile became bigger than console gaming IIRC, and the Switch might also hit a ceiling after a while. 

Still, Psvita flopped and Switch came out years after when the market is suppose to be worse, but is doing really well. Sure it's more gravitating towards mobile/handheld, but still Nintendo is succeeding with an hybrid console which is pretty expensive for a handheld in a market even worse where Sony failed with the vita.

Vita was a failure everywhere, not just Japan, and you have several reasons for this failure. The fact that it's Sony and not Nintendo have nothing to do with it. 

Vita also had good competition (3DS), while the Switch is the only handheld available. 

And are you going to ignore the failure of the Wii U? It's Nintendo though, but it sold almost twice less than the Vita...

It's not Nintendo/Sony, it's home console/handheld/mobile. That's a fact.