According to Mat Piscatella "Next Gen consoles sales will not have a major effect on Switch sales"

[DonFerrari]

HoangNhatAnh said:

Nu-13 said:

A statement that is 100% wrong.

Call me when your post has anything to do with the subject at hand.

I can't believe that after so long there's still this much denial. The wii was a huge hit, sony effed up the ps3 AND both of these facts impacted sales of the ps3.

You should specify that it's about existing consoles released many years prior. Consoles of the same generation affect each other a lot.

Switch target portable fans and Nintendo fans. It did compete with ps4 in some ways about software, but not directly

I would say they didn't even compete in SW (sure you can say their SW compete to be GOTY or anything like that, but isn't like Switch and PS4 were competing on who would receive a SW, if the game was doable on Switch it would get a release, if the game didn't need portability PS4 would get a release as well).

For me they only competed for mindshare and media coverage, but with still enough space for both to thrive (and they did, when Switch launched PS4 beat it's record year while Switch was nearly beating PS4 launch numbers at the same time).