The_Liquid_Laser said:
thismeintiel said:
The Saturn launched months before the PS1. The Dreamcast launched over a year before the PS2. There's much more to it than launching early. By your reasoning, those two should have been successes. Or at the very least, knocked out the competition that launched after the PS1, the N64, and PS2, Gamecube and Xbox. Instead they were both failures. Launch dates really mean nothing, unless the machines, games, and price are going to be exactly the same, which never happens.
Really, I just don't get how hard this is to comprehend, the PS4 and the Switch ARE NOT directly competing with each other. The Switch didn't kill the PS4's great sales, and vice versa. They have different features, game libraries, and power levels. Do you honestly think that someone who owned a PS4 this gen is going to "downgrade" to a Switch as their console for the next 6-7 years? Hell no. They are going to want the greatly upgraded power that comes with the PS5 and, more than likely, the exclusives on that system. If they do get a Switch, it will be just like the Wii was with the PS3 and 360 owners last gen, they got it as a secondary console.
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I agree with your first three statements, and in fact you can gather that from reading my post which you quoted. But then you keep arguing after that.
It makes it seem like you are arguing against a straw man.
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It's not a straw man. It's reality. PS4 had it's greatest year after the Switch launched. The people who still kept buying the PS4 aren't interested in having the Switch as their main console, otherwise the sales of PS4 would have plummeted.
The same will happen next gen. Those people who want an actual upgrade in power aren't going with Switch, for obvious reasons. That's not to say they won't eventually get one.
