Nintendo's success with the Switch both a blessing and a curse?

[scottslater]

KLXVER said:

RolStoppable said:

Because Nintendo, Japanese third parties and indies worldwide will continue to release lots of games for Switch. For 2020 you can expect sales to be similar to 2019 and that will continue into 2021 because the games will keep coming. The PS5 would not only have to have the strongest first year of any console in history, but beat the old record by a significant margin to beat Switch in 2021.

For 2022 you can still expect Switch sales to be above 15m, so Sony will need a weak Microsoft to have the PS5 sell above that mark.

The current fear-mongering is all about AAA third party games being so important, but the reality is that Switch will cost a lot less while being stacked with amazing exclusives when the PS5 and Scarlett show up. Nintendo isn't the console manufacturer who has to worry in the upcoming comparisons, especially because they'll continue to hold a monopoly in the portable console space. That's a factor that is commonly forgotten.

Makes sense. I think the PS5 will be a force to be reckoned with though. The PlayStation brand is still the biggest one in the industry and Sony are great (and one of the very few) at making AAA games without having the 60$ be the starting point and not the final price. MS will still be chasing Gamepass and microtransactions together with their bff EA.

I don't know if I would call PS the biggest brand... Nintendo's best games usually outsell PlayStation's best games (speaking about exclusives) by almost 2 to 1 and don't ever drop their price while maintaining those numbers.  And if you take the Combined hardware sales Nintendo has a larger saturation than Sony (and that's with Switch being around for a less time) this generation (PS4 + Vita is about 120.49 million units, 3DS + Wii U + Switch is at about 134.85 million, minus Wii U it's at 120.88 million).

EDIT: I have no idea what to make of Microsoft of the upcoming generation.  They were headed in the right direction during the Xbox 360 era but the Xbox One era has really set them back.

Last edited by scottslater - on 12 December 2019