PS4 VS Switch lifetime sales, which console will sell the most?

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Soundwave said:

zorg1000 said:

I dont understand the concern, what you are saying is people who bought a PS4/XB1 from 2013-2016 and bought a NSW from 2017-2019 are going to buy a PS5/XB2 in 2020-2023, those people already own a NSW so they arent stealing sales from it.

The issue is more that they choose from 2020 onwards to spend the majority of their play time/game budget on their newer PS5/XB2 because those are the new and exciting thing.

If that was even remotely true, then the opposite would also be true, meaning that when the Switch entered the market, the other two's sales would have faltered. But instead, they had their best year in sales!

Switch, and Nintendo by extension, is a wildly different market with a different appeal to Playstation and Xbox. You can see it with the sales numbers, too: Playstation plus Xbox always add up to something around 170M per generation, but Nintendo's sales are all over the place. The reason is that Nintendo is notexactly competition to the other two, but it's very own thing. You don't buy a Nintendo console for the same stuff you buy a Playstation or an Xbox. Instead, it complements the other consoles (and/or a gaming PC), not compete with them.